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Collider experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider, use the Geant4 toolkit to simulate particle-detector interactions with high accuracy. However, these experiments increasingly require larger amounts of simulated data,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 Piyush Raikwar , Anna Zaborowska , Peter McKeown , Renato Cardoso , Mikolaj Piorczynski , Kyongmin Yeo

A set of physics models for nanodosimetry simulation is being re-engineered for use in Geant4-based simulations. This extension of Geant4 capabilities is part of a larger scale R&D project for multi-scale simulation involving adaptable,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 E. Gargioni , V. Grichine , M. G. Pia

Evolutions of Geant4 code have affected the simulation of electron backscattering with respect to previously published results. Their effects are quantified by analyzing the compatibility of the simulated electron backscattering fraction…

The Geant4 photonuclear process is benchmarked by comparing it with experimental data to verify the ability of the Geant4 toolkit to simulate the photo-induced reaction on deformed nuclei in the Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) region. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 P. D. Khue , P. V. Cuong , D. L. Balabanski , L. X. Chung , D. V. Thanh , D. T. K. Linh , L. T. Anh

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

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

In this paper we simulate the emission by charged particles in complex structures with help of Geant4. We take into account Cherenkov radiation, transition radiation, bremsstrahlung, pair production and other accompanying processes. As an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. A. Savchenko , A. A. Tishchenko , S. B. Dabagov , A. Anastasi , G. Venanzoni , M. N. Strikhanov

From the beginning the Geant4 Visualisation System was designed to support several simultaneous graphics systems written to common abstract interfaces. Today it has matured into a powerful diagnostic and presentational tool. It comes with a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-01-01 John Allison , Laurent Garnier , Akinori Kimura , Joseph Perl

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

A set of physics models and parameters pertaining to the simulation of proton energy deposition in matter are evaluated in the energy range up to approximately 65 MeV, based on their implementations in the Geant4 toolkit. The analysis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Maria Grazia Pia , Marcia Begalli , Anton Lechner , Lina Quintieri , Paolo Saracco

For several years, attempts have been made to interface Geant4 and other software packages with the aim of simulating the complete response of a gaseous particle detector. In such a simulation, Geant4 is always responsible for the primary…

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

Ants3 is a toolkit that serves as a front-end for particle simulations in Geant4 and offers a custom simulator for optical photons. It features a fully interactive Graphical User Interface and an extensive scripting system based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 A. Morozov , L. M. S. Margato , G. Canezin , J. Gonzalez

This work presents novel discrete event-based simulation algorithms based on the Quantized State System (QSS) numerical methods. QSS provides attractive features for particle transportation processes, in particular a very efficient handling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-16 Lucio Santi , Lucas Rossi , Rodrigo Castro

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

Hadronic calorimeters with dual readout measure both scintillation and Cherenkov lights produced in their active media. They offer improvements in energy resolution and, therefore, have become increasingly interesting due to the need for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-14 S. V. Chekanov , S. Eno , S. Magill , C. Palmer , L. Wu

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

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

Ongoing investigations for the improvement of Geant4 accuracy and computational performance resulting by refactoring and reengineering parts of the code are discussed. Issues in refactoring that are specific to the domain of physics…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Batic , M. Begalli , M. Han , S. Hauf , G. Hoff , C. H. Kim , M. Kuster , M. G. Pia , P. Saracco , H. Seo , G. Weidenspointner , A. Zoglauer