This paper presents the first study that uses the GEometry ANd Tracking 4 (GEANT4) toolkit to do quantitative comparisons with other modeling results related to the production of terrestrial gamma ray flashes and high-energy particle emission from thunderstorms. We will study the relativistic runaway electron avalanche (RREA) and the relativistic feedback process, as well as the production of b...

The GATE Monte Carlo simulation platform based on the GEANT4 toolkit has come into widespread use for simulating positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging devices. Here, we explore its use for calculating electron dose distributions in water. Mono-energetic electron dose point kernels and pencil beam kernels in water are calculated for dif...

The MUon RAdiography of VESuvius (MURAVES) project aims at the study summital cone Mt. Vesuvius, an active volcano near Naples (Italy), by measuring its density profile through muon flux attenuation. Its data, combined with those from gravimetric and seismic measurement campaigns, will be used for better defining volcanic plug bottom crater. We report on development end-to-end simulation framew...

An accurate description of interactions between thermal neutrons (below 4 eV) and materials is key to simulate the transport in a wide range applications such as criticality-safety, reactor physics, compact accelerator-driven neutron sources, radiological shielding or nuclear instrumentation, just name few. While Monte Carlo code Geant4 was initially developed particle physics experiments, %-wi...

Radiation therapy is an established method of cancer treatment. New technologies in cancer radiotherapy need a more accurate computation of the dose delivered in the radiotherapy treatment plan. This study presents some results of a Geant4-based application for simulation of the absorbed dose distribution given by a medical linear accelerator (LINAC). The LINAC geometry is accurately described ...

This paper is a continuation of the preliminary dosimetric evaluation of source terms at PW laser systems [1] the proton case. The main acceleration mechanisms and the associated characteristics of the accelerated proton beams were briefly presented. FLUKA and GEANT4 Monte Carlo transport codes were used to compute absorbed doses due to three proton beams of well defined energy and spatial dist...

The HARP experiment at the CERN Proton Synchroton has collected data for hadroproduction measurements with a large set of targets, ranging from hydrogen to lead, in the momentum range 3.0-15 GeV/c, covering an extended angular range (0.025 ≤ θ ≤ 2.15 rad) with a redundant particle identification. Obtained results may be used for the tuning of neutrino beamline simulations, going from convention...