FLUKA Realistic Modeling of Radiation Induced Damage

The prediction of the structural damage to materials under irradiation is essential to evaluate consequences due to long term employment of construction materials in nuclear reactors and charged particle accelerators. The present paper describes the implementation of radiation damage effects in the particle transport code FLUKA for all particles and compares the results with the numerical evaluations available in the literature. In contrast with the implementation in other codes, we decided not to employ the Lindhard partition function but rather rework the formulas for an equivalent partition function restricted in energy above a user defined damage threshold. The implementation is based on the integration of the “universal” potential using realistic form factors, allowing for calculation of the restricted