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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

An algorithm has been developed for the Geant4 Monte-Carlo package for the efficient computation of screened Coulomb interatomic scattering. It explicitly integrates the classical equations of motion for scattering events, resulting in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marcus H. Mendenhall , Robert A. Weller

Inorganic scintillators are widely used for scientific, industrial and medical applications. The development of 3D printing with inorganic scintillators would allow fast creation of detector prototypes for registration of ionizing…

Monte Carlo simulations are increasingly used in scintigraphic imaging to model imaging systems and to develop and assess tomographic reconstruction algorithms and correction methods for improved image quantitation. GATE (GEANT 4…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lazaro , I. Buvat , G. Loudos , D. Strul , G. Santin , N. Giokaris , D. Donnarieix , L. Maigne , V. Spanoudaki , S. Styliaris , S. Staelens , V. Breton

In this advanced instructional laboratory, students explore complex detection systems and nondestructive assay techniques used in the field of nuclear physics. After setting up and calibrating a neutron detection system, students carry out…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-08-15 Flynn B. Darby , Michael Y. Hua , Oskari V. Pakari , Shaun D. Clarke , Sara A. Pozzi

Liquid scintillator (LS) is widely used in various neutrino oscillation experiments, in particular, the reactor neutrino experiments. The complex absorption and re-emission processes of optical photons are known to be an important source of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Yan Zhang , Ze-Yuan Yu , Xin-Ying Li , Zi-Yan Deng , Liang-Jian Wen

ESPResSo 4.0 is an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter. This versatile molecular dynamics program was originally developed for coarse-grained simulations of charged systems Limbach et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 174,…

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

In order to develop a high spatial resolution (micron level) thermal neutron detector, a detector assembly composed of cerium doped lithium glass microfibers, each with a diameter of 1\,$\mu$m, is proposed, where the neutron absorption…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-14 Song Yushou , Joseph Conner , Xiaodong Zhang , Jason P. Hayward

The rapid development of X-ray astronomy has been made possible by widely deploying X-ray focusing telescopes on board many X-ray satellites. Geant4 is a very powerful toolkit for Monte Carlo simulations and has remarkable abilities to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Donghua Zhao , Chen Zhang , Weimin Yuan , Shuangnan Zhang , Richard Willingale , Zhixing Ling

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…

In this work, the simulation of optical photons is carried out in an antineutrino detector module consisting of a plastic scintillator connected to light guides and photomultipliers on both ends, which is considered to be used for remote…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

The engineering design of a particle detector is usually performed in a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program, and simulation of the detector's performance can be done with a Geant4-based program. However, transferring the detector design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Carl Vuosalo , Duncan Carlsmith , Sridhara Dasu , Kimberly Palladino

Stereo mini-jet cells will be indispensable components of a future $e^+e^-$ linear collider central tracker such as JLC-CDC. There is, however, no official Geant4 solid available at present to describe such geometrical objects, which had…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 Kotoyo Hoshina , Keisuke Fujii , Osamu Nitoh

Research and development on alternative thermal neutron detection technologies and methods are nowadays needed as a possible replacement of 3He-based ones. Commercial solid state silicon detectors, coupled with neutron converter layers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-07 Sergio Lo Meo , Luigi Cosentino , Paolo Bartolomei , Paolo Finocchiaro

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

The library RNGSSELIB for random number generators (RNGs) based upon the SSE2 command set is presented. The library contains realization of a number of modern and most reliable generators. Usage of SSE2 command set allows to substantially…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 L. Yu. Barash , L. N. Shchur

We have developed a software library for chemical evolution simulations of galaxy formation under the simple stellar population (SSP) approximation. In this library, all of the necessary components concerning chemical evolution, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Takayuki R. Saitoh

Organic liquid scintillators are used in many neutrino physics experiments of the past and present. In particular for low energy neutrinos when realtime and energy information are required, liquid scintillators have several advantages…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-18 Christian Buck , Minfang Yeh

The spherical proportional counter is a novel gaseous detector with numerous applications, including direct dark matter searches and neutron spectroscopy. The strengths of the Geant4 and Garfield++ toolkits are combined to create a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-11 I. Katsioulas , P. Knights , J. Matthews , T. Neep , K. Nikolopoulos , R. Owen , R. Ward