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Geant4 Detector Construction Pattern (GDCP) is a C++ package containing a set of utility classes for developers to utilize during the detector construction phase of a Geant4 application. The main objective of this study is to provide an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-16 Mustafa Kandemir

The Geant4 toolkit is the standard for simulating the passage of particles through matter, but its conventional architecture often requires users to modify and recompile C++ code to alter fundamental simulation parameters such as geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-13 Jing Liu

A new detector is being developed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) to measure low energy charged-particles from beta-delayed particle emission. These low energy particles are very important for nuclear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-27 D. Perez-Loureiro , C. Wrede

The principle of using strongly scattering materials to recover efficiency in neutron detectors, via back-scattering of unconverted thermal neutrons, is discussed in general. Feasibility of the method is illustrated through Geant4-based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-11 Thomas Kittelmann , Esben Klinkby , Xiao Xiao Cai , Kalliopi Kanaki , Carsten P Cooper-Jensen , Richard Hall-Wilton

Geant4 simulations play a crucial role in the analysis and interpretation of experiments providing low energy precision tests of the Standard Model. This paper focuses on the accuracy of the description of the electron processes in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-23 G. Soti , F. Wauters , M. Breitenfeldt , P. Finlay , I. S. Kraev , A. Knecht , T. Porobic , D. Zákoucký , N. Severijns

A primary objective in contemporary low background physics is the search for rare and novel phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, e.g. the scattering off of a potential Dark Matter particle or the neutrinoless double beta…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 H. Kluck , R. Breier , A. Fuß , V. Mokina , V. Palušová , P. Povinec

We discuss a novel use of the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model molecular transport in a vacuum environment, in the molecular flow regime. The Geant4 toolkit was originally developed by the high energy physics community to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 J. Singal , J. Langton , R. Schindler

This paper presents studies on application of convolutional neural network (CNN) to GEANT4 optical simulation data generated with a scintillator detector subdivided into 1 cubic cm, which is designed for the long-baseline neutrino…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-22 Tomohisa Ogawa

Experiments measuring fission observables encounter false coincidences arising from timing overlap of separate fission product decays. Simulations of both fission observables and particles in detector systems exist, but have not yet been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 Liam Walker , Jack Shire , Jacob Jaffe , Payton Sprando , Jack Olinger , Alexander Chemey

A model for the simulation of orientational effects in straight and bent periodic atomic structures is presented. The continuum potential approximation has been adopted.The model allows the manipulation of particle trajectories by means of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 E. Bagli , M. Asai , D. Brandt , A. Dotti , V. Guidi , D. H. Wright

GEANT4 is a particle physics simulation tool used to develop and optimize radiation detectors. While C++ based examples exist, Python's growing popularity necessitates the development of a more accessible Python bindings interface. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-12-10 Patrick Stowell , Robert Foster , Almahdi Elhamri

Geant4-based simulations of the energy deposited by electrons in various materials are quantitatively compared to high precision calorimetric measurements taken at Sandia Laboratories. The experimental data concern electron beams of energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matej Batic , Gabriela Hoff , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco , Georg Weidenspointner

Geant4 is a Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit that is becoming a tool of generalized application in areas such as high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics, or medical physics. Geant4 provides an optical physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 João Costa , Mário Pimenta , Bernardo Tomé

The characteristics of the Solid-state Neutron Detector, under development for neutron-scattering measurements at the European Spallation Source, have been simulated with a Geant4-based computer code. The code models the interations of…

The plain text geometry description syntax in Geant4 has been extended to incorporate optical properties for bulk materials and surface interfaces. This extension enables users to configure and execute comprehensive optical simulations…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Ariestotle Raj Maharjan , Jianchen Li , Jing Liu

Total-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has the potential to transform medical care of a number of diseases and augment our knowledge of systems biology. Various detector designs and geometries are currently under development…

Modern precision experiments trapping low-energy particles require detailed simulations of particle trajectories and spin precession to determine systematic measurement limitations and apparatus deficiencies. We developed PENTrack, a tool…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-24 Wolfgang Schreyer , Tatsuya Kikawa , Martin J. Losekamm , Stephan Paul , Rüdiger Picker

The correctness and precision of particle physics simulation software, such as Geant4, is expected to yield results that closely align with real-world observations or well-established theoretical predictions. Notably, the accuracy of these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Angel Bueno Rodriguez , Felix Sattler , Maximilian Perez Prada , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes

The demand for new thermal neutron detectors as an alternative to 3He tubes in research, industrial, safety and homeland security applications, is growing. These needs have triggered research and development activities about new generations…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-09 Paolo Finocchiaro , Luigi Cosentino , Sergio Lo Meo , Ralf Nolte , Desiree Radeck

Whether it is for shielding applications or for safety criticality studies, numerically solving the neutron transport equation with a good accuracy requires to precisely estimate the Doppler broadened elastic scattering kernel in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 M. Zmeškal , L. Thulliez , E. Dumonteil