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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 simulation methods for the channeling phenomena in GeV/TeV energy range in ideal or distorted crystal lattices are discussed. Monte Carlo predictions for feed-out and feed-in rates, dislocation dechanneling, and deflection efficiencies…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Valery M. Biryukov

We examine three dense high-Z scintillating crystals for the $\mu \to e$ conversion experiment using the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. The full energy deposition, albedo, and longitudinal and lateral energy leakages for all crystal assemblies…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-12-19 Zafar Usubov

Various Li compounds are commonly used at neutron facilities as neutron absorbers. These compounds provide one of the highest ratios of neutron attenuation to $\gamma$-ray production. Unfortunately, the usage of these compounds can also…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-03 Valentina Santoro , Douglas D. Di Julio , Phillip M. Bentley

Optical detection of alpha particle emitters in the environment by air radioluminescence is a new technology that enables sensing a radiological threat at safe distances, without putting personnel at risk or contaminating equipment.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-24 Claudia Olaru , Mihail-Razvan Ioan , Mastaneh Zadehrafi

This extended abstract briefly summarizes ongoing research activity on the evaluation and experimental validation of physics methods for photon and electron transport. The analysis includes physics models currently implemented in Geant4 as…

A R&D project has been recently launched to investigate Geant4 architectural design in view of addressing new experimental issues in HEP and other related physics disciplines. In the context of this project the use of generic programming…

Progress in high-energy physics has been closely tied to the development of highperformance electromagnetic calorimeters. Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to significantly accelerate the development of electromagnetic…

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

Recently it was proposed to apply a bent single crystal with decreasing curvature instead of uniform bending for improvement of extraction and collimation of a circulating beam in particle accelerators. In the given paper created crystal…

Ideas of use the particle channeling in bent crystals for steer the beams have been checked up and advanced in many experiments. However, until now, this method of beam formation has limitations in application, since the channeling process…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 A. G. Afonin , M. Yu. Chesnokov , Yu. A. Chesnokov , A. A. Yanovich

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

We present an application of automatic differentiation for particle transport through matter using a Geant4-like radiation transport simulation with a full electromagnetic physics model. When differentiating this step-based transport, we…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-11 Jeffrey Krupa , Yiyang Zhao , Mihaly Novak , Max Aehle , Max Sagebaum , Long Chen , Nicolas Gauger , Miaoyuan Liu , Lukas Heinrich , Michael Kagan

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…

The simulation of radioactive decays is a common task in Monte-Carlo systems such as Geant4. Usually, a system either uses an approach focusing on the simulations of every individual decay or an approach which simulates a large number of…

Experimental results and simulation models show that crystals might play a relevant role for the development of new generations of high-energy and high-intensity particle accelerators and might disclose innovative possibilities at existing…

The proposed work demonstrates the results of creating and investigating the mathematical model of the source of fast neutrons. The model carrier is a computer program developed in the C++ programming language in the Linux operating system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Tetiana Malykhina , Viktoriia Lisovska , Valentina Shpagina , Ruslan Timchenko

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

This study presents a Monte Carlo simulation tool for modeling the transportation processes of thermal electrons in noble liquids, specifically focusing on liquid argon and liquid xenon. The study aims to elucidate the microscopical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-22 Yijun Xie , Yi Wang

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