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Full detector simulation was among the largest CPU consumer in all CERN experiment software stacks for the first two runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the early 2010's, the projections were that simulation demands would scale…

We study the feasibility of a PC-based parallel computer for medium to large scale lattice QCD simulations. The E\"otv\"os Univ., Inst. Theor. Phys. cluster consists of 137 Intel P4-1.7GHz nodes with 512 MB RDRAM. The 32-bit, single…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , G. Papp

Detailed radiation analysis of instruments flown in space is critical to ensure mission safety, often requiring the use of state-of-the-art particle transport simulation tools. Geant4 is one of the most powerful toolkits to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Marco Pinto , Patrícia Gonçalves

Experiments searching for extremely rare events surround their sensitive detectors with several layers of different shielding materials to protect them from external radiation and to achieve their low-background requirements to be able to…

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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

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…

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

For next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, extremely low backgrounds are necessary. An understanding of in-situ cosmogenic backgrounds is critical to the design effort. In-situ cosmogenic backgrounds impose a depth…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-21 C. J. Barton , W. Xu , S. R. Elliott , R. Massarczyk

The Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) are low-cost charged-particle detectors with good timing resolution and potentially good spatial resolution. Using RPC as gamma detector provides an opportunity for application in positron emission…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-20 Zhou Weizheng , Shao Ming , Li Cheng , Chen Hongfang , Sun Yongjie , Chen Tianxiang

Surface simulations are important for accurately modeling particle interactions in experiments where background contributions from surface contaminants can significantly affect detector performance. In rare event searches, such as dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-21 Christoph Grüner

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

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 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

The performance of a small prototype of a cylindrical drift chamber (CDC) used in the COMET Phase-I experiment was studied by using an electron beam. The prototype chamber was constructed with alternating all-stereo wire configuration and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-07 C. Wu , T. S. Wong , Y. Kuno , M. Moritsu , Y. Nakazawa , A. Sato , H. Sakamoto , N. H. Tran , M. L. Wong , H. Yoshida , T. Yamane , J. Zhang

A PC-based parallel computer for medium/large scale lattice QCD simulations is suggested. The Eotvos Univ., Inst. Theor. Phys. cluster consists of 137 Intel P4-1.7GHz nodes. Gigabit Ethernet cards are used for nearest neighbor communication…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz , G. Papp

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

Total-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has the potential to transform medical care of a number of diseases and augment our knowledge of systems biology. Various detector designs and geometries are currently under development…

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