Comparison of Geant4 electromagnetic physics models against the NIST reference data

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K. Amako · Japan Science and Technology Agency

Susanna Guatelli · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova

V. Ivanchenko · European Organization for Nuclear Research

M. Maire · Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules

B. Mascialino · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova

K. Murakami · Japan Science and Technology Agency

P. Nieminen

Abstract

The Geant4 Simulation Toolkit provides an ample set of physics models describing electromagnetic interactions of particles with matter. This paper presents the results of a series of comparisons for the evaluation of Geant4 electromagnetic processes with respect to United States National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) reference data. A statistical analysis was performed to estimate quantitatively the compatibility of Geant4 electromagnetic models with NIST data; the statistical analysis also highlighted the respective strengths of the different Geant4 models.

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Published in: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 910-918

DOI: 10.1109/tns.2005.852691

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