UrQMD (Ultra relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics) is a fully integrated
Monte Carlo
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simulation package for Proton+Proton, Proton+nucleus and nucleus+nucleus interactions. UrQMD has many applications in
particle physics
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,
high energy experimental physics
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and
engineering
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,
shielding,
detector
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In the broadest definition, a sensor is a devi ...
design,
cosmic ray
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studies, and
medical physics
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.
Since version 3.3, an option has been incorporated to substitute part of the collision with a hydrodynamic model.
UrQMD is available in as
open-source
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Fortran code.{{citation needed, date=October 2008
UrQMD is developed using the
FORTRAN language. Under
Linux
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the
gfortran compiler is necessary to build and run the program.
The UrQMD model is part of the
GEANT4 simulation package and can be used as a low-energy hadronic interaction model within the air shower simulation code
CORSIKA
CORSIKA (COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a physics computer software for simulation of extensive air showers induced by high energy cosmic rays, i.e. protons and atomic nuclei, as well as Gamma rays (photons), electrons, and neutrinos. ...
.
External links
Official site of UrQMD collaboration
Fortran software
Physics software
Monte Carlo particle physics software
Science software for Linux