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Monte Carlo simulations are powerful tools for understanding the effects of radiation interactions within detector devices allowing not only to evaluate typical estimates for experimental measurements and to serve as means for designing…

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De-excitation $\gamma$ cascades from neutron captures form a dominant background to MeV-scale signals. The Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit is widely used to model backgrounds in nuclear and particle physics experiments. While its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Leo Weimer , Emma Ellingwood , Otis Fischer , Michela Lai , Shawn Westerdale

Monte Carlo simulation is an essential component of experimental particle physics in all the phases of its life-cycle: the investigation of the physics reach of detector concepts, the design of facilities and detectors, the development and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Maria Grazia Pia , Georg Weidenspointner

Electromagnetic processes of charged particles interaction with oriented crystals provide a wide variety of innovative applications such as beam steering, crystal-based extraction/collimation of leptons and hadrons in an accelerator, a…

A proton pencil beam is associated with a surrounding low-dose envelope, originating from nuclear interactions. It is important for treatment planning systems to accurately model this envelope when performing dose calculations for pencil…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 David C. Hall , Anastasia Makarova , Harald Paganetti , Bernard Gottschalk

In this paper we investigate, with a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation based on Geant4, the novel approach [Nucl. Instrum. Methods A588 (2008) 457] to 3D imaging with photon scattering. A monochromatic and well collimated gamma beam is used…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 M. Lenti , M. Veltri

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

The Generic Geant4 Simulation (GGS) is a package designed to speed-up the realization and deployment of Monte Carlo simulation software based on Geant4, for small- and medium-sized high-energy experiments. For many common use cases, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-04-22 Nicola Mori

Recent developments and validation tests related to the simulation of X-ray fluorescence and PIXE with Geant4 are reviewed. They concern new models for PIXE, which has enabled the first Geant4-based simulation of PIXE in a concrete…

An empirical numerical model that includes nuclear absorption, multiple Coulomb scattering, and energy loss is presented in this work to calculate the transmission of the thick objects in high energy proton radiography, and in this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-16 Zheng Na , Xu Hai-bo

Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed and tested for studying the passage of charged particle beams and radiation through the crystalline matter at energies from tens of MeV up to hundreds of GeV. The developed Monte Carlo code…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Armen Apyan

Ongoing investigations for the improvement of Geant4 accuracy and computational performance resulting by refactoring and reengineering parts of the code are discussed. Issues in refactoring that are specific to the domain of physics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Batic , M. Begalli , M. Han , S. Hauf , G. Hoff , C. H. Kim , M. Kuster , M. G. Pia , P. Saracco , H. Seo , G. Weidenspointner , A. Zoglauer

The production, application, and/or measurement of polarised X-/gamma rays are key to the fields of synchrotron science and X-/gamma-ray astronomy. The design, development and optimisation of experimental equipment utilised in these fields…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jeremy M. C. Brown , Matthew R. Dimmock

The development of a package for the management of physics data is described: its design, implementation and computational benchmarks. This package improves the data management tools originally developed for Geant4 physics models based on…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 Mincheol Han , Maria Grazia Pia , Hee Seo , Lorenzo Moneta , Chan Hyeong Kim

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 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

The microphysics of electron and photon propagation in liquid argon is a key component of detector design and calibrations needed to construct and perform measurements within a wide range of particle physics experiments. As experiments grow…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 Zach Beever , David Caratelli , Angela Fava , Francesco Pietropaolo , Francesca Stocker , Jacob Zettlemoyer

A Geant4-based Python/C++ simulation and coding framework, which has been developed and used in order to aid the R&D efforts for thermal neutron detectors at neutron scattering facilities, is described. Built upon configurable geometry and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-24 Thomas Kittelmann , Irina Stefanescu , Kalliopi Kanaki , Mirko Boin , Richard Hall-Wilton , Karl Zeitelhack

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

Plastic scintillators are widely used as particle detectors in many fields, mainly, medicine, particle physics and astrophysics. Traditionally, they are coupled to a photo-multplier (PMT) but now silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 G. Ros , G. Sáez-Cano , G. A. Medina-Tanco , A. D. Supanitsky