Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group

P Arce, D Bolst, MC Bordage, JMC Brown… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide
range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro‐and nanodosimetry, imaging, radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Technical design of the phase I Mu3e experiment

K Arndt, H Augustin, P Baesso, N Berger, F Berg… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The Mu3e experiment aims to find or exclude the lepton flavour violating decay μ→ eee at
branching fractions above 1 0− 16. A first phase of the experiment using an existing …

Simulation and optimization of optical fiber irradiation with X-rays at different energies

A Meyer, D Lambert, A Morana, P Paillet, A Boukenter… - Radiation, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We investigated the influence of modifying the voltage of an X-ray tube,
and therefore its photon energy spectrum, on the Total Ionizing Dose deposited in a single …

The role of low-energy electrons in the charging process of LISA test masses

S Taioli, M Dapor, F Dimiccoli, M Fabi… - … and Quantum gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The estimate of the total electron yield is fundamental for our understanding of the test-mass
charging associated with cosmic rays in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) …

Large nuclear scattering effects in antiproton transmission through polymer and metal-coated foils

K Nordlund, M Hori, D Sundholm - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We simulate the deceleration and transmission of antiprotons with keV-scale kinetic
energies through polymer foils using a molecular dynamics approach, which includes a …

Influence of the background in Compton camera images for proton therapy treatment monitoring

M Borja-Lloret, L Barrientos, J Bernabéu… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Background events are one of the most relevant contributions to image
degradation in Compton camera imaging for hadron therapy treatment monitoring. A study of …

Evaluation of the GEANT4 transport algorithm and radioactive decay data for alpha particle dosimetry

AU Khan, LA DeWerd - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2021 - Elsevier
A Fano cavity test was implemented in GEANT4 Monte Carlo code to evaluate the alpha
particle transport algorithm. GEANT4 alpha emission data for 212 Pb, 223 Ra, 227 Th, and …

Monte Carlo modeling of Halcyon and Ethos radiotherapy beam using CAD geometry: validation and IAEA-compliant phase space

L Laakkonen, J Lehtomäki, A Cahill… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. A Monte Carlo (MC) model of a Halcyon and Ethos (Varian Medical Systems, a
Siemens Healthineers Company) radiotherapy beam was validated and field-independent …

A data-driven fragmentation model for carbon therapy gpu-accelerated monte-carlo dose recalculation

M De Simoni, G Battistoni, A De Gregorio… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The advent of Graphics Processing Units (GPU) has prompted the development of Monte
Carlo (MC) algorithms that can significantly reduce the simulation time with respect to …

Geant4 electromagnetic physics progress

V Ivanchenko, A Bagulya, S Bakr… - EPJ Web of …, 2020 - epj-conferences.org
The Geant4 electromagnetic (EM) physics sub-packages are a component of LHC
experiment simulations. During long shutdown 2 for LHC, these packages are under …