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We present a Geant4-based simulation study of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) for three commonly used detector targets: Germanium, Argon, and Xenon. A custom CEvNS model was implemented, including differential cross…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-20 Yusuf Havvat

The high performance requirements at the European Spallation Source have been driving the technological advances on the neutron detector front. Now more than ever is it important to optimize the design of detectors and instruments, to fully…

The speed and fidelity of detector simulations in particle physics pose compelling questions about LHC analysis and future colliders. The sparse high-dimensional data, combined with the required precision, provide a challenging task for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-27 Luigi Favaro , Andrea Giammanco , Claudius Krause

The CDF detector simulation framework is integrated into an AC++ application used to process events in the CDF experiment. The simulation framework is based on the GEANT3 package. It holds the detector element geometry descriptions, allows…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 E. Gerchtein , M. Paulini

Surface simulations are important for accurately modeling particle interactions in experiments where background contributions from surface contaminants can significantly affect detector performance. In rare event searches, such as dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-21 Christoph Grüner

Radiation detection is vital for space, medical imaging, homeland security, and environmental monitoring applications. In the past, the Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit, Geant4, has been employed to enable the effective development…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-14 Lysander Miller , Airlie Chapman , Katie Auchettl , Jeremy M. C. Brown

An open source software package for modelling thermal neutron transport is presented. The code facilitates Monte Carlo-based transport simulations and focuses in the initial release on interactions in both mosaic single crystals as well as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Xiao-Xiao Cai , Thomas Kittelmann

This paper reports the development of TOUCANS, a new Monte Carlo neutron transport code fully written using the Geant4 toolkit. It aims at modeling complex systems easily and rapidly, thanks to a simple key-value input file. While its main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 L. Thulliez , B. Mom , E. Dumonteil

The search for new comparably light (well below the electroweak scale) feebly interacting particles is an exciting possibility to explain some mysterious phenomena in physics, among them the origin of Dark Matter. The sensitivity study…

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

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

A Geant4-based simulation framework for rare event searching experiments with germanium detectors named SAGE is presented with details. It is designed for simulating, assessing background distribution, and investigating the response of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-27 Ze She , Hao Ma , Weihe Zeng , Wenhan Dai , Xinping Geng , Ofoq Normahmedov , Jingzhe Yang , Zhi Zeng , Qian Yue , Jianping Cheng , Junli Li

A simulation of neutrons traversing a shield beneath the COMET scintillator strip cosmic-veto counter is accomplished using the Geant4 toolkit. A Geant4 application is written with an appropriate detector construction and a possible…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 Oleg Markin

The Geant4 toolkit offers a rich variety of electromagnetic physics models; so far the evaluation of this Geant4 domain has been mostly focused on its physics functionality, while the features of its design and their impact on simulation…

In this paper we deal with the problem of predicting a steady-state neutron spectrum in media of arbitrary composition and geometry. The analytical calculations of such spectrum are often too complex, if at all possible. We describe a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 V. P. Smolyar , V. A. Tarasov , A. O. Mileva , A. V. Tykhonov , V. D. Rusov

We considered GEANT4 version 4.9.4 with different Electromagnetic Physics Package for calculation of response functions of detectors based on semi-insulating materials. Computer simulations with GEANT4 packages were run in order to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-12-13 A. I. Skrypnyk , A. A. Zakharchenko , M. A. Khazhmuradov

We present a simulation-based study of a compact directional neutron detector composed of liquid scintillator, Cesium Iodide, with boron carbide (B4C) moderation, and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Using GEANT4, we explored multiple…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-22 J. -H. Chen , M. Mirzakhani , R. Mahapatra , S. Sahoo

A Monte Carlo framework, MaGe, has been developed based on the Geant4 simulation toolkit. Its purpose is to simulate physics processes in low-energy and low-background radiation detectors, specifically for the Majorana and Gerda $^{76}$Ge…

A model to describe the output particle distribution generated by particles impinging on a planar target has been developed. This model was developed to simulate positron production in the Cornell CESR Linac but can be applied to targets…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 John Mastroberti , David Sagan , Jim Shanks

Position sensitive detectors based on gaseous scintillation proportional counters with Anger-type readout are being used in several research areas such as neutron detection, search for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay. Design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 L. Pereira , L. M. S. Margato , A. Morozov , V. Solovov , F. A. F. Fraga