Announcement of the PHITS Tutorial inVietnam, 2024
In collaboration with the PHITS development team (Japan Atomic Energy Agency -JAEA,Japan), a tutorial course will be held in Da Lat, Vietnam. PHITS is a general-purpose
Monte Carlo particle transport simulation code developed under the collaboration among
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and several institutes over the world. It can deal
with the transport of nearly all particles over wide energy ranges, using several nuclear
reaction models and nuclear data libraries. PHITS can support your research works in thefields of accelerator technology, radiotherapy, space radiation, dosimetry and in manyother fields which are related to particle and heavy ion transport phenomena. See PHITS
website for more details. (http://phits.jaea.go.jp).
Tutorial information
Venue: Dalat Nuclear Research Institute, VINATOM
https://nri.gov.vn/en

Address: 01 Nguyen Tu Luc, Dalat, Lam Dong
Date: 2024, Mar. 11-15
Tutorial fee: FREE
Language: English
Eligibility for participation: None (Open to everybody1)
Lecturer: Dr. Takuya Furuta and Dr. Yuho Hirata, JAEA, Japan
Phits-en-tutorial@jaea.go.jp

For registration
Co-organizer: Dr. Le Ngoc Thiem ( Thiem.LNT@gmail.com;),0915119219
INST, VINATOM
Deadline: 2024 Feb. 9 (Non-licensed Users), 2024 Mar. 4 (Licensed Users)

Attendees must obtain the PHITS license in prior to the course. The distribution ofthe PHITS code is controlled by Japanese law, and we may not be able to accept theparticipation from country/institute of weapon development concern.
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INTRODUCTION to the PHITS code

Overview of the PHITS code
Before the tutorial
If you would like to attend the course, you have to obtain the license of the latest versionof PHITS. It is free of charge, and the instruction to get the license is given below(https://phits.jaea.go.jp/howtoget.html). When you submit the application form, please
select “Submission of application form” in https://phits.jaea.go.jp/contact/edit/en, andwrite “I would like to attend PHITS course in Vietnam, Mar. 2024” in the message body
(Deadline: 2024 Feb. 9). If you have already obtained the PHITS license, please contact
or send an application from https://phits.jaea.go.jp/contact/edit/en with “Registration for
PHITS tutorial”, and choose “In person tutorial in Vietnam (11-15th Mar. 2024)” in thecolumn of “Tutorial to attend” (Deadline: 2024 Mar. 4)..
Attendees must bring a laptop PC with either Windows or Mac OS. During the course,
they will learn the basic usage of PHITS such as the construction of 3D geometry and thedefinition of source particles and tallies. At the end of the course, they will be encouraged
to conduct PHITS simulation for their own purpose under support of lecturer. There is no
particular skill that should be learned in prior to attending this course.
If you have any question about the course, please Email to Dr. Le Ngoc Thiem
thiem.lnt@gmail.com (for Vietnamese), or PHITS office phits-office@jaea.go.jp (fornon-Vietnamese) with your information (Affiliation, Nationality).

Tentative Agenda
Monday 11 Mar.
Morning : Opening (incl. self-introduction of participants)
Morning 2: Introduction and Installation of the Code(lunch)
13:30-14:30: Basic Lecture (input format & geometry)
14:30-14:45: Break
14:45-16:00: Basic Lecture (input format & geometry)
16:00-16:15: Break
16:15-17:30: Basic Lecture (source definition)
Tuesday 12 Mar.
09:30-10:30: Basic Lecture (tally definition)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Basic Lecture (tally definition)(lunch)13:30-14:30: Basic Lecture (parameter setting)
14:30-14:45: Break
14:45-16:00: Basic Lecture (parameter setting)
16:00-16:15: Break
16:15-17:30: Basic Lecture (parameter setting)
Wednesday 13 Mar.
9:30-10:30: Advanced lecture (definition of source energy distribution)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Advanced lecture (definition of source energy distribution)(lunch)13:30-14:30: Exercise (stop α, β, γ-rays & neutron)
14:30-14:45: Break
14:45-16:00: Exercise (melt snowman by proton beam!)
16:00-16:15: Break
16:15-17:30: Exercise (melt snowman by proton beam!)
Thursday 14 Mar.
9:30-10:30: Advanced lecture (complicated source definition)
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-12:00: Advanced lecture (complicated source definition)(lunch)Hands-on exercises
Friday 15 Mar.
9:30-12:00: Advanced lecture (variance reduction)(lunch)Afternoon: Free Q&A