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CLLBC(Ce) and TLYC(Ce) are novel scintillation materials capable of measuring mixed gamma ray and neutron radiation fields that have gained significant interest in the areas of space and nuclear safety/security science. To date Geant4, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-20 Jeremy M. C. Brown , Lachlan Chartier , David Boardman , John Barnes , Alison Flynn

Detailed radiation analysis of instruments flown in space is critical to ensure mission safety, often requiring the use of state-of-the-art particle transport simulation tools. Geant4 is one of the most powerful toolkits to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Marco Pinto , Patrícia Gonçalves

CMS experiment is using Geant4 for Monte-Carlo simulation of the detector setup. Validation of physics processes describing hadronic showers is a major concern in view of getting a proper description of jets and missing energy for signal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-09 Stefan Piperov

The construction of modern detectors used in high-energy physics experiments is typically guided by modeling with the Geant4 toolkit to evaluate detector performance in terms of geometrical acceptance and detection efficiency. Several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-05 S. D. Savenkov , A. O. Svetlichnyi , I. A. Pshenichnov

Geant4Reweight is an open-source C++ framework that allows users to 1) weight tracks produced by the GEANT4 particle transport Monte Carlo simulation according to hadron interaction cross section variations and 2) estimate uncertainties in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Calcutt , C. Thorpe , K. Mahn , Laura Fields

A R&D project has been recently launched to investigate Geant4 architectural design in view of addressing new experimental issues in HEP and other related physics disciplines. In the context of this project the use of generic programming…

We present {\gamma} spectroscopy validation measurements for the Geant4 radioactive decay simulation for a selected range of isotopes using a simple experimental setup. Using these results we point out problems in the decay simulation and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 S. Hauf , M. Kuster , Dieter H. H. Hoffmann , Z. W. Bell , M. G. Pia , Georg Weidenspointner , A. Zoglauer

GePEToS is a simulation framework developed over the last few years for assessing the instrumental performance of future PET scanners. It is based on Geant4, written in Object-Oriented C++ and runs on Linux platforms. The validity of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Jan , J. Collot , M. -L. Gallin-Martel , P. Martin , F. Mayet , E. Tournefier

The new generation of astroparticle experiments will use technologies common to High Energy Physics. Among such technologies a central place is given to the role of simulation.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro De Angelis

Various Li compounds are commonly used at neutron facilities as neutron absorbers. These compounds provide one of the highest ratios of neutron attenuation to $\gamma$-ray production. Unfortunately, the usage of these compounds can also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-03 Valentina Santoro , Douglas D. Di Julio , Phillip M. Bentley

A comprehensive analysis of the effects of Geant4 algorithms for condensed transport in detectors is in progress. The first phase of the project focuses on electron multiple scattering, and studies two related observables: the longitudinal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Batic , G. Hoff , M. G. Pia

The proposed work demonstrates the results of creating and investigating the mathematical model of the source of fast neutrons. The model carrier is a computer program developed in the C++ programming language in the Linux operating system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Tetiana Malykhina , Viktoriia Lisovska , Valentina Shpagina , Ruslan Timchenko

A version of Geant4 has been developed to treat high-energy proton radiography. This article presents the results of calculations simulating the effects of nuclear elastic scattering for various test step wedges. Comparisons with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-19 Xu Haibo , Zheng Na

The performance of a large-scale water Cherenkov neutrino telescope relies heavily on the transparency of the surrounding water, quantified by its level of light absorption and scattering. A pathfinder experiment was carried out to measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Fan Hu , Zhenyu Wei , Wei Tian , Ziping Ye , Fuyudi Zhang , Zhengyang Sun , Wei Zhi , Qichao Chang , Qiao Xue , Zhuo Li , Donglian Xu

Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for geometry, tracking, detector response, run, event and track management, visualization and user interfaces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Koi , M. Asai , D. H. Wright , K. Niita , Y. Nara , K. Amako , T. Sasaki

The transport of neutrons in long beamlines at spallation neutron sources presents a unique challenge for Monte-Carlo transport calculations. This is due to the need to accurately model the deep-penetration of high-energy neutrons through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-07 Douglas D. DiJulio , Isak Svensson , Xiao Xiao Cai , Joakim Cederkall , Phillip M. Bentley

A radiographic setup for an investigation of fast dynamic processes with areal density of targets up to 5 g/cm$^2$ is under development on the basis of high-current proton linear accelerator at the Institute for Nuclear Research (Troitsk,…

We describe a physics simulation software framework, MAGE, that is based on the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. MAGE is used to simulate the response of ultra-low radioactive background radiation detectors to ionizing radiation, specifically the…

The engineering design of a particle detector is usually performed in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program, and simulation of the detector's performance can be done with a Geant4-based program. However, transferring the detector design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Carl Vuosalo , Duncan Carlsmith , Sridhara Dasu , Kimberly Palladino

Radioactive decays are of concern in a wide variety of applications using Monte-Carlo simulations. In order to properly estimate the quality of such simulations, knowledge of the accuracy of the decay simulation is required. We present a…