Geant4 developments and applications
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Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection. Its functionality and modeling capabilities continue to be extended, while its performance is enhanced. An overview of recent developments in diverse areas of the toolkit is presented. These include performance optimization for complex setups; improvements for the propagation in fields; new options for event biasing; and additions and improvements in geometry, physics processes and interactive capabilities
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- Authors
- Allison, J., Amako, K., Apostolakis, J., Araujo, H., Arce Dubois, P., Asai, M., Barrand, G., Capra, R., Chauvie, S., Chytracek, R., Cirrone, G. A. P., Cooperman, G., Cosmo, G., Cuttone, G., Daquino, G. G., Donszelmann, M., Dressel, M., Folger, G., Foppiano, F., Generowicz, J., Grichine, V., Guatelli, S., Gumplinger, P., Heikkinen, A., Hrivnacova, I., Howard, A., Incerti, S., Ivanchenko, V., Johnson, T., Jones, F., Koi, T., Kokoulin, R., Kossov, M., Kurashige, H., Lara, V., Larsson, S., Lei, F., Link, O., Longo, F., Maire, M., Mantero, A., Mascialino, B., McLaren, I., Mendez Lorenzo, P., Minamimoto, K., Murakami, K., Nieminen, P., Pandola, L., Parlati, S., Peralta, L., Perl, J., Pfeiffer, A., Pia, M. G., Ribon, A., Rodrigues, P., Russo, G., Sadilov, S., Santin, G., Sasaki, T., Smith, D., Starkov, N., Tanaka, S., Tcherniaev, E., Tome, B., Trindade, A., Truscott, P., Urban, L., Verderi, M., Walkden, A., Wellisch, J. P., Williams, D. C., Wright, D., & Yoshida, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Manchester (GB)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (JP)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CH)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (FR)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (IT)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (IT)
- Northeastern University (US)
- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- TRIUMF (CA)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Kobe University (JP)
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (ES)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Qinetiq (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste (IT)
- Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules (FR)
- Naruto University of Education (JP)
- European Space Agency (FR)
- LIP - Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (PT)
- Ritsumeikan University (JP)
- École Polytechnique (FR)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- ORCID
- Allison, J.
- Apostolakis, J.
- Asai, M.
- Barrand, G.
- Capra, R.
- Chauvie, S.
- Cirrone, G.A.P.
- Cooperman, G.
- Cuttone, G.
- Dressel, M.
- Grichine, V.
- Guatelli, S.
- Heikkinen, A.
- Howard, A.
- Incerti, S.
- Ivanchenko, V.
- Koi, T.
- Kurashige, H.
- Lei, F.
- Longo, F.
- Maire, M.
- Mantero, A.
- Mascialino, B.
- Murakami, K.
- Pandola, L.
- Parlati, S.
- Peralta, L.
- Perl, J.
- Pfeiffer, A.
- Pia, M.G.
- Russo, G.
- Santin, G.
- Tanaka, S.
- Tcherniaev, E.
- Tome, B.
- Trindade, A.
- Verderi, M.
- Williams, D.C.
- Wright, D.
- Yoshida, H.
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Published
- 2006-02
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 270-278
- ISSN
- 0018-9499 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2128881154
- Cited by
- 6,946
- References
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- FWCI
- 130.67
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- European Space Agency
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
- Keywords
- Geant4, particle transport simulation, particle-matter interaction, performance optimization, electromagnetic field propagation, geometric modeling, radiation protection, medical physics, particle physics, astrophysics, space science
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