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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

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…

PandaX is a large upgradable liquid-xenon detector system that can be used for both direct dark-matter detection and $^{136}$Xe double-beta decay search. It is located in the Jinping Deep-Underground Laboratory in Sichuan, China. The…

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

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

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…

We present a novel constraint on light dark matter utilizing $1.54$ tonne$\cdot$year of data acquired from the PandaX-4T dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. This constraint is derived through detecting electronic recoil signals…

Geant4 is a Monte Carlo simulation framework for the description of interactions of particles and matter. Starting with version 8.2 a new package of QED physics processes is available, allowing for the studies of interactions of polarised…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 Andreas Schälicke , Karim Laihem , Pavel Starovoitov

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-09 F. Marinho , K. Akiba

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

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

Simourg is a software based on the Geant4 toolkit and provides the Monte Carlo simulation of nuclear spectrometric setups with simple geometries for such applications as nuclear decay research, radiation safety, and nuclear medicine. With…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-07 D. S. Kovalenko , V. V. Kobychev , L. M. Kobycheva , O. V. Zueva

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

The program Simourg (Simulator of Usually Requested Geometries) is based on the Geant4 toolkit and created for Monte Carlo simulation of gamma-ray spectrometric nuclear detectors with a simple axial symmetric geometry, which is typical for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-09 V. V. Kobychev

NuSD: Neutrino Segmented Detector is a Geant4-based user application that simulates inverse beta decay event in a variety of segmented scintillation detectors developed by different international collaborations. This simulation framework…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-28 Mustafa Kandemir , Emrah Tiras , Vincent Fischer

Backscattering is a sensitive probe of the accuracy of electron scattering algorithms implemented in Monte Carlo codes. The capability of the Geant4 toolkit to describe realistically the fraction of electrons backscattered from a target…

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a neutrinoless double-beta (\beta \beta 0\nu) decay experiment that will operate at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). It is an electroluminescent high-pressure gaseous xenon Time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Nebot-Guinot , P. Ferrario , J. Martin-Albo , J. Muñoz Vidal , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas

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

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is an experiment to search neutrinoless double beta decay processes (bb0nu) in Xe136. The NEXT technology is based in the use of time projection chambers operating at a typical pressure of 15 bar…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-11 Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas

We point out that the LDMX (Light Dark Matter eXperiment) detector design, conceived to search for sub-GeV dark matter, will also have very advantageous characteristics to pursue electron-nucleus scattering measurements of direct relevance…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Artur M. Ankowski , Alexander Friedland , Shirley Weishi Li , Omar Moreno , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro , Nhan Tran