Casino and other Monte-Carlo physics applications

[John Donovan]

This board is for discussion of the Casino family of Monte Carlo physics applications. Casino is a number of freeware programs for quickly calculating and displaying electron-solid interactions for a variety of beam conditions and sample geometries. They have been developed at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec and McGill University, Canada by Raynald Gauvin, Hendrix Demers and Philippe Pinard.

To install Casino simply extract all files in the ZIP to a folder, e.g., C:\Casino, and run the Casinov242.exe (for v. 2.4.2) or Wincasino2.exe or Wincasino2_64.exe (for v. 2.4.8 32 or 64 bit).

Old version of Casino can be downloaded here:

The latest version of Casino is now called MCXray:

https://montecarlomodeling.mcgill.ca/software/mcxray/mcxray.html

Note also this page with more information (please scroll to the bottom):

https://epmalab.uoregon.edu/calczaf.htm

[Ben Buse]

Is there still a download site from which students can download for original casino which has the merit of simplicity for teaching

[Ben Buse]

Answering my own question https://www.usherbrooke.ca/genie-electrique-informatique/recherche-et-innovation/application-casino

[kenshepjr]

I started using the MC-Xray Lite. I am mostly interested in the EDS aspect of this simulation. I am looking through the examples and comparing it to the GUI and I noticed that in the _Options.txt files that are generated there are parameters that are seemingly out of reach according to the GUI. Are there ways to access these e.g. the "Thickness of Moxtek (um)      = 0.3" parameter. " Attached is an example txt file with these parameters.

Additionally. Some of these examples that are given have a "void" region. Would it be considered best practice to have a void region for the system vacuum chamber?