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Validation of Geant4-based Radioactive Decay Simulation
Validation of Geant4-based Radioactive Decay Simulation
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2013.
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Abstract
- Radioactive decays are of concern in a wide variety of applications using Monte-Carlo simulations. In order to properly estimate the quality of such simulations, knowledge of the accuracy of the decay simulation is required. We present a validation of the original Geant4 Radioactive Decay Module, which uses a per-decay sampling approach, and of an extended package for Geant4-based simulation of radioactive decays, which, in addition to being able to use a refactored per-decay sampling, is capable of using a statistical sampling approach. The validation is based on measurements of calibration isotope sources using a high purity Germanium (HPGe) detector; no calibration of the simulation is performed. For the considered validation experiment equivalent simulation accuracy can be achieved with per-decay and statistical sampling.
- Subjects :
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Computer science
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Nuclear engineering
Detector
Monte Carlo method
Sampling (statistics)
FOS: Physical sciences
Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
Semiconductor detector
Germanium radiation detectors
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Calibration
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
Nuclear Experiment
Physics - Computational Physics
Radioactive decay
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ce62db309bebe8b8462e0693349b2579
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1306.5129