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Used widely in a nuclear engineering reactor simulator that was essentially a quadruple integral finite-element analysis program based on MC.

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Particle physics experiments, such as the LHC, are simulated using an MC program call Geant (Giant). Various modules can be tweaked for new physics, and the signal/background statistics established for new decay signatures.

https://geant4.web.cern.ch/

Yes, open source code and installers, so you too can simulate the LHC :)

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