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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…

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Nowadays, the current threat of international terrorism is set to a severe level, demanding worldwide enhanced security. Radioactive materials that could be fashioned into a radiation dispersal device typically emit gamma rays, while…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-16 A. Sh. Georgadze

The design of nuclear imaging scanners is crucial for optimizing detection and imaging processes. While advancements have been made in simplistic, symmetrical modalities, current research is progressing towards more intricate structures,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Anh Le , Amirreza Hashemi , Mark P. Ottensmeyer , Hamid Sabet

Nuclear and particle physics are the core components of most undergraduate and postgraduate physics courses worldwide. While few fundamental concepts like particle counting and detector characterisation are taught in tandem with laboratory…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-21 Deepak Samuel

GePEToS is a simulation framework developed over the last few years for assessing the instrumental performance of future PET scanners. It is based on Geant4, written in Object-Oriented C++ and runs on Linux platforms. The validity of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Jan , J. Collot , M. -L. Gallin-Martel , P. Martin , F. Mayet , E. Tournefier

The construction of modern detectors used in high-energy physics experiments is typically guided by modeling with the Geant4 toolkit to evaluate detector performance in terms of geometrical acceptance and detection efficiency. Several…

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CLLBC(Ce) and TLYC(Ce) are novel scintillation materials capable of measuring mixed gamma ray and neutron radiation fields that have gained significant interest in the areas of space and nuclear safety/security science. To date Geant4, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-20 Jeremy M. C. Brown , Lachlan Chartier , David Boardman , John Barnes , Alison Flynn

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

Typically used as a tool for Monte Carlo simulation of high energy physics experiments, GEANT4 is increasingly being employed for the simulation of complex radiotherapy treatments. Often the specification of components within a clinical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-05-06 Christopher M Poole , Iwan Cornelius , Jamie V Trapp , Christian M Langton

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

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…

Small and wide angle x-ray scattering tensor tomography are powerful methods for studying anisotropic nanostructures in a volume-resolved manner, and are becoming increasingly available to users of synchrotron facilities. The analysis of…

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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 have developed MGGPOD, a user-friendly suite of Monte Carlo codes built around the widely used GEANT (Version 3.21) package. The MGGPOD Monte Carlo suite and documentation are publicly available for download. MGGPOD is an ideal tool for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Weidenspointner , M. Harris , C. Ferguson , S. Sturner , B. Teegarden , C. Wunderer

NuSD: Neutrino Segmented Detector is a Geant4-based user application that simulates inverse beta decay event in a variety of segmented scintillation detectors developed by different international collaborations. This simulation framework…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-28 Mustafa Kandemir , Emrah Tiras , Vincent Fischer

Creating and maintaining computer readable geometries for use in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport (MCRT) simulations is an error-prone and time-consuming task. Simulating a system often requires geometry from different sources and modelling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stewart Boogert , Andrey Abramov , Laurence Nevay , William Shields , Stuart Walker

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

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

The Monte Carlo (MC) simulation method is a powerful tool for radiation physicists, and several general-purpose software packages are commonly applied in a myriad of different radiation physics fields today. In medical physics, charged…

Goupil is a software library designed for the Monte Carlo transport of low-energy gamma-rays, such as those emitted from radioactive isotopes. The library is distributed as a Python module. It implements a dedicated backward sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Valentin Niess , Kinson Vernet , Luca Terray