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The Generic Geant4 Simulation (GGS) is a package designed to speed-up the realization and deployment of Monte Carlo simulation software based on Geant4, for small- and medium-sized high-energy experiments. For many common use cases, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-04-22 Nicola Mori

Geant4-based simulations of the energy deposited by electrons in various materials are quantitatively compared to high precision calorimetric measurements taken at Sandia Laboratories. The experimental data concern electron beams of energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matej Batic , Gabriela Hoff , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco , Georg Weidenspointner

In the context of critical applications, such as shielding and radiation protection, ensuring the quality of simulation software they depend on is of utmost importance. The assessment of simulation software quality is important not only to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Elisabetta Ronchieri , Maria Grazia Pia , Francesco Giacomini

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

This study introduces a new Scintillator Simulation Library called SSLG4 for the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation package. With SSLG4, we aim to enhance efficiency and accelerate progress in optical simulations within the Geant4 framework by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-13 Mustafa Kandemir , Emrah Tiras , Burcu Kirezli , İbrahim Koca

One trend in dark matter direct detection is the development of techniques which will lower experimental thresholds and achieve sensitivity to light mass dark matter particles. In doing so, it is necessary to have an understanding of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-18 D. Barker

Backscattering is a sensitive probe of the accuracy of electron scattering algorithms implemented in Monte Carlo codes. The capability of the Geant4 toolkit to describe realistically the fraction of electrons backscattered from a target…

Deep learning methods have gained popularity in high energy physics for fast modeling of particle showers in detectors. Detailed simulation frameworks such as the gold standard Geant4 are computationally intensive, and current deep…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-10-24 Atul Kumar Sinha , Daniele Paliotta , Bálint Máté , Sebastian Pina-Otey , John A. Raine , Tobias Golling , François Fleuret

Geant4 simulations play a crucial role in the analysis and interpretation of experiments providing low energy precision tests of the Standard Model. This paper focuses on the accuracy of the description of the electron processes in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-23 G. Soti , F. Wauters , M. Breitenfeldt , P. Finlay , I. S. Kraev , A. Knecht , T. Porobic , D. Zákoucký , N. Severijns

Geant4 low energy extensions have been used to simulate the X-ray spectra of industrial X-ray tubes with filters for removing the uncertain low energy part of the spectrum in a controlled way. The results are compared with precisely…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Guthoff , O. Brovchenko , W. de Boer , A. Dierlamm , T. Müller , A. Ritter , M. Schmanau , H. -J. Simonis

The plain text geometry description syntax in Geant4 has been extended to incorporate optical properties for bulk materials and surface interfaces. This extension enables users to configure and execute comprehensive optical simulations…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-07 Ariestotle Raj Maharjan , Jianchen Li , Jing Liu

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

Dark matter detectors require calibrations of their energy scale and efficiency to detect nuclear recoils in the $1-50$ keV range. Most calibrations use neutron scattering and require MCNP or Geant4 simulations of neutron propagation…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-03-19 Alan E. Robinson

We evaluate the cosmogenic production rates in some materials that are commonly used as targets and shielding/supporting components for detecting rare events. The results from Geant4 simulations are compared with the calculations of ACTIVIA…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 C. Zhang , D. -M. Mei , V. A. Kudryavtsev , S. Fiorucci

The purpose of the PandaX experiments is to search for the possible events resulted from dark matter particles, neutrinoless double beta decay or other rare processes with xenon detectors. Understanding the energy depositions from…

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 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

The full-energy-peak efficiency of HPGe detectors at $\gamma$-ray energies around 10 MeV is not easily accessible with experimental methods. Monte-Carlo simulations with Geant4 can provide these efficiencies. G4Horus is a ready-to-use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-15 Jan Mayer , Elena Hoemann , Markus Müllenmeister , Philipp Scholz , Andreas Zilges

Dark matter experiments are rare event search experiments that require zero background environment over very long exposures. To achieve this condition, a detailed simulation of detector geometry and experimental setup is required before the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-15 Susmita Das , Maitreyee Nandy , Mala Das

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…