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Geant4 is a tool kit developed by a collaboration of physicists and computer professionals in the High Energy Physics field for simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The motivation for the development of the Beam Tools is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Daniel Elvira , P. Lebrun , P. Spentzouris

Geant4 is a complex and widely-used software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter and the interactions they undergo. It contains very extensive and flexible optical physics capabilities. These allow for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Erik Dietz-Laursonn

Geant4, the leading detector simulation toolkit used in high energy physics, employs a set of physics models to simulate interactions of particles with matter across a wide range of energies. These models, especially the hadronic ones, rely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-25 Krzysztof Genser , Soon Yung Jun , Alberto Ribon , Vladimir Uzhinsky , Julia Yarba

Electromagnetic processes of charged particles interaction with oriented crystals provide a wide variety of innovative applications such as beam steering, crystal-based extraction/collimation of leptons and hadrons in an accelerator, a…

The Geant4 toolkit is used extensively in high energy physics to simulate the passage of particles through matter and to predict effects such as detector efficiencies and smearing. Geant4 uses many underlying models to predict particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 V. Elvira , L. Fields , K. L. Genser , R. Hatcher , V. Ivanchenko , M. Kelsey , T. Koi , G. N. Perdue , A. Ribon , V. Uzhinsky , D. H. Wright , J. Yarba , S. Y. Jun

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

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

Understanding the physical world is a continuous process of trial and error. It requires theoretical background and tools to find out the theory's accuracy. Particles motion through matter, and their energy loss is one such process. Testing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Vanshaj Kerni , Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri

As simulation system, the variety of physics processes implemented is one of the most important functionalities. In that sense, Geant4 is one of the most powerful simulation toolkits. Its flexibility and expansibility brought by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Murakami , K. Amako , H. Hirayama , Y. Namito , T. Sasaki , M. Asai , T. Koi

A Geant4-based Python/C++ simulation and coding framework, which has been developed and used in order to aid the R&D efforts for thermal neutron detectors at neutron scattering facilities, is described. Built upon configurable geometry and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-24 Thomas Kittelmann , Irina Stefanescu , Kalliopi Kanaki , Mirko Boin , Richard Hall-Wilton , Karl Zeitelhack

We discuss a novel use of the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model molecular transport in a vacuum environment, in the molecular flow regime. The Geant4 toolkit was originally developed by the high energy physics community to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 J. Singal , J. Langton , R. Schindler

A model for the simulation of orientational effects in straight and bent periodic atomic structures is presented. The continuum potential approximation has been adopted.The model allows the manipulation of particle trajectories by means of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 E. Bagli , M. Asai , D. Brandt , A. Dotti , V. Guidi , D. H. Wright

The Geant4 toolkit is the standard for simulating the passage of particles through matter, but its conventional architecture often requires users to modify and recompile C++ code to alter fundamental simulation parameters such as geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-13 Jing Liu

Geant4 is a toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for geometry, tracking, detector response, run, event and track management, visualization and user interfaces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Koi , M. Asai , D. H. Wright , K. Niita , Y. Nara , K. Amako , T. Sasaki

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…

Experiments measuring fission observables encounter false coincidences arising from timing overlap of separate fission product decays. Simulations of both fission observables and particles in detector systems exist, but have not yet been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 Liam Walker , Jack Shire , Jacob Jaffe , Payton Sprando , Jack Olinger , Alexander Chemey

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

The Geant4 toolkit offers a rich variety of electromagnetic physics models; so far the evaluation of this Geant4 domain has been mostly focused on its physics functionality, while the features of its design and their impact on simulation…

We present a novel Python tool for the analysis of Geant4 simulations that enhances our understanding of coherent phenomena occurring during the interaction of charged particles with crystal planes. This tool compares the total energy of…

The search for new comparably light (well below the electroweak scale) feebly interacting particles is an exciting possibility to explain some mysterious phenomena in physics, among them the origin of Dark Matter. The sensitivity study…

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