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Validation of Geant4-based Radioactive Decay Simulation

Validation of Geant4-based Radioactive Decay Simulation

Authors :
Matej Batic
S. Neff
Maria Grazia Pia
Dieter H. H. Hoffmann
Steffen Hauf
Markus Kuster
Philipp M. Lang
Zane W. Bell
Andreas Zoglauer
Georg Weidenspointner
Publication Year :
2013
Publisher :
arXiv, 2013.

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.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....ce62db309bebe8b8462e0693349b2579
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1306.5129