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Neutron energy spectrum from 120 GeV protons on a thick copper target was measured at the Meson Test Beam Facility (MTBF) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data allows for evaluation of neutron production process implemented in…

Rate-dependent effects in the electronics used to instrument the tagger focal plane at the MAX IV Laboratory were recently investigated using the novel approach of Monte Carlo simulation to allow for normalization of high-rate experimental…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-11 M. F. Preston , L. S. Myers , J. R. M. Annand , K. G. Fissum , K. Hansen , L. Isaksson , R. Jebali , M. Lundin

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

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

Objective: To assess the accuracy and computational performance of a stochastic differential equation (SDE)--based model for proton beam dose calculation by benchmarking against Geant4 in simplified phantom geometries. Approach: Building on…

Monte Carlo simulations are a crucial tool for the analysis and prediction of various background components in liquid xenon (LXe) detectors. With improving shielding in new experiments, the simulation of external backgrounds, such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-31 S. Bruenner , A. P. Colijn , M. P. Decowski , O. V. Kesber

The measurement of the beta asymmetry parameter in nuclear beta decay is a potentially very sensitive tool to search for non V-A components in the charge-changing weak interaction. To reach the required precision (percent level) all effects…

Expected energy spectra calculations for large volume liquid scintillation detectors to inverse $\beta$-decay for antineutrinos produced by $^{144}$Ce -- $^{144}$Pr artificial source have been performed. The calculations were carried out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-17 A. V. Derbin , I. S. Drachnev , I. S. Lomskaya , V. N. Muratova , N. V. Pilipenko , D. A. Semenov , E. V. Unzhakov

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

In this paper we simulate the emission by charged particles in complex structures with help of Geant4. We take into account Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation, bremsstrahlung, pair production and other accompanying processes. As an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. A. Savchenko , A. A. Tishchenko , S. B. Dabagov , A. Anastasi , G. Venanzoni , M. N. Strikhanov

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

We test the feasibility of calculating proton stopping power (SP) from a set of virtual monochromatic (VM) CT images, created with Monte Carlo-generated CT scans, using a dual-energy CT-to-SP procedure. The Monte Carlo CT simulations, with…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Adam Zieser , Ugur Akgun , Yasar Onel

Using the Geant4 toolkit, a Monte-Carlo code to simulate the detector background of the Simbol-X focal plane instrument has been developed with the aim to optimize the design of the instrument. Structural design models of the mirror and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-27 R. Chipaux , U. Briel , A. Bulgarelli , L. Foschini , E. Kendziorra , C. Klose , M. Kuster , P. Laurent , C. Tenzer

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

Monte Carlo simulations of slow positron production via energetic electron interaction with a solid target have been performed. The aim of the simulations was to determine the expected slow positron beam intensity from a low energy, high…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. E. O'Rourke , N. Hayashizaki , A. Kinomura , R. Kuroda , E. Minehara , T. Ohdaira , N. Oshima , R. Suzuki

Underground experiments searching for rare events, such as interactions from dark matter, need to exhibit background as low as possible. One source of background is from cosmic ray muons and muon-induced neutron production. Presently these…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-23 Haichuan Cao , David Koltick

A large area plastic scintillator detector array(~ 1 m x1m) has been set up for fast neutron spectroscopy at the BARC-TIFR Pelletron laboratory, Mumbai. The energy, time and position response has been measured for electrons using…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-16 P. C. Rout , D. R. Chakrabarty , V. M. Datar , Suresh Kumar , E. T. Mirgule , A. Mitra , V. Nanal , R. Kujur

A Monte Carlo simulator is presented to reproduce data of nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The program is designed in a microscopic point of view, where the cascade approach is applied. Moreover, each nucleon from both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Hassan , N. El-Harby , M. T. Hussein

An accurate description of interactions between thermal neutrons (below 4 eV) and materials is key to simulate the transport of neutrons in a wide range of applications such as criticality-safety, reactor physics, compact accelerator-driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Loic Thulliez , Cédric Jouanne , Eric Dumonteil

The Geant4-DNA project proposes to develop an open-source simulation software based and fully included in the general-purpose Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit. The main objective of this software is to simulate biological damages…