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General purpose computing on graphic processing units (GPU) is a potential method of speeding up scientific computation with low cost and high energy efficiency. We experimented with the particle physics simulation toolkit Geant4 used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Otto Seiskari , Jukka Kommeri , Tapio Niemi

We present the package for the simulation of DM (Dark Matter) particles in fixed target experiments. The most convenient way of this simulation (and the only possible way in the case of beam-dump) is to simulate it in the framework of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 M. Bondi , A. Celentano , R. R. Dusaev , D. V. Kirpichnikov , M. M. Kirsanov , N. V. Krasnikov , L. Marsicano , D. Shchukin

We have modeled, tested, and installed a large, cerium-activated Gd2SiO5 crystal scintillator for use as a detector of gamma rays. We present the measured detector response to two types of incident photons: nearly monochromatic photons up…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 D. S. Parno , M. Friend , V. Mamyan , F. Benmokhtar , A. Camsonne , G. B. Franklin , K. Paschke , B. Quinn

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

We compare existing segmented plastic antineutrino detectors with our new geometrically improved design for antineutrino detection and light collection efficiency. The purpose of this study is to determine the most suitable design style for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-03-07 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

The Geant4 toolkit is the leading software for the simulation of particle transport through matter, widely used in nuclear physics, high-energy physics, and medical physics. However, the initial learning curve for new developers can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-14 Jing Liu

We describe a physics simulation software framework, MAGE, that is based on the GEANT4 simulation toolkit. MAGE is used to simulate the response of ultra-low radioactive background radiation detectors to ionizing radiation, specifically the…

Geant4 is a Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit that is becoming a tool of generalized application in areas such as high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics, or medical physics. Geant4 provides an optical physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 João Costa , Mário Pimenta , Bernardo Tomé

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

Low background gamma spectrometry employing HPGe detectors is a sensitive technique for measuring low-level radioactivity in environmental applications, material screening, and for rare decay searches. This work presents spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-24 Swati Thakur , Soni Devi , Sanjeet S. Kaintura , Katyayni Tiwari , Pushpendra P. Singh

UCGretina, a GEANT4 simulation of the GRETINA gamma-ray tracking array of highly-segmented high-purity germanium detectors is described. We have developed a model of the array, in particular of the Quad Module and the capsules, that gives…

We present results of simulations performed with the Geant4 software code of the effects of Galactic Cosmic Ray impacts on the photoconductor arrays of the PACS instrument. This instrument is part of the ESA-Herschel payload, which will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bongardo , P. Andreani , G. De Zotti

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is an upcoming NASA Small Explorer satellite mission, designed for all-sky observations in the soft gamma-ray domain with the use of germanium detectors (GeDs). An active Anticoincidence System…

A parametric simulation tool for pixel sensors is presented. A realistic pixel response is simulated purely based on measurement input, without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying manufacturing process. As such, it provides an…

A configurable calorimeter simulation for AI (COCOA) applications is presented, based on the Geant4 toolkit and interfaced with the Pythia event generator. This open-source project is aimed to support the development of machine learning…

We have used the TOPAS Geant4-based package to create a parametric simulation of a new TOF-PET scanner design based on a low atomic number scintillator. TOPAS was extended to provide complete information on individual particle position,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Kepler Domurat-Sousa , Cameron Poe

We report the development of a CaMoO4 crystal low temperature detector for the AMoRE neutrinoless double beta decay (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) search experiment. The prototype detector cell was composed of a 216 g CaMoO4 crystal and a metallic…

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

A research and development (R&D) project related to the extension of the Geant4 toolkit has been recently launched to address fundamental methods in radiation transport simulation. The project focuses on simulation at different scales in…