Since its release in 1999, the LHC experiments have been evaluating Geant4 in view of adopting it as a replacement for the obsolescent Geant3 transport MonteCarlo. The ALICE collaboration has decided to perform a detailed physics validation of elementary hadronic processes against experimental data already used in international benchmarks. In one test, proton interactions on different nuclear t...

Introduction: Rectal and bladder cancer are the most common disease among young man. Although External Radiotherapy (EBRT) is one of the most effective treatment options introduced so far, the testis undesired radiation dose increases the risk of infertility and hormonal malfunctioning. The testicles are usually outside of the radiation field, but they can be exposed either to ...

The Hadron Kinetic Model is part of the Geant4 Toolkit; it covers the simulation of hadronic interactions in the intermediate energy range. Its role in the context of Geant4 hadronic models is outlined with emphasis on the physics content, and its Object Oriented design is illustrated.

Cosima is the Geant4-based simulator of the medium-energy gamma-ray astronomy library MEGAlib. Within the MEGAlib framework, Cosima is designed to be a simple, fool-proof interface to Geant4 and to enable the simulation of most of the measurement scenarios encountered by X-ray and gamma-ray detectors in space and on Earth.

GEANT4 is a detector simulation toolkit designed for the new generation of High Energy Physics experiments as well as for nuclear physics, astrophysics, medical and space applications and radiation background studies. An overview of its main features is presented, with emphasis on the most recent enhancements and a selection of results from Geant4-based simulations in various experimental envir...

Medical imaging and radiation therapy are widely used synchrotron-based techniques which have one thing in common: a significant dose delivery to typically biological samples. Among the ways to provide the experimenters with image guidance techniques indicating optimization strategies, Monte Carlo simulation has become the gold standard for accurately predicting radiation dose levels under spec...

Monte Carlo simulations are more and more popular trend in nuclear medicine imaging. They were also widely used in radiotherapy and brachytherapy with use of more general simulation software. GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) is a platform developed on general Monte Carlo code designed for simulating and tracking the passage of particles through matter (Geant4) but is specifica...

The characteristics of the Solid-state Neutron Detector, under development for neutron-scattering measurements at European Spallation Source, have been simulated with a Geant4-based computer code. code models interations thermal neutrons and ionising radiation in 6Li-doped scintillating glass detector, production scintillation light transport optical, photons through scintillator, en route to p...