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Recent developments in Geant4

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 2016 · Vol. 835 · pp. 186–225

John E. Allison✉(University of Manchester)K. Amako(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)J. Apostolakis(European Organization for Nuclear Research)P. Arce(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)M. Asai(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)Tsukasa Aso(National Institute of Technology, Toyama College)E. Bagli(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Ferrara)A. Bagulya(P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)Sw. Banerjee(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)Guy Barrand(Université Paris-Sud)Belinda R. Beck(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)A. Bogdanov(Institute of Engineering Physics)D. BrandtJeremy M. C. Brown(Queen's University Belfast)H. Burkhardt(European Organization for Nuclear Research)Philippe Canal(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)D. Cano‐Ott(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)Stéphane ChauvieK. Cho(Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information)G.A.P. Cirrone(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)Gene Cooperman(Northeastern University)M. A. Cortés‐Giraldo(Universidad de Sevilla)G. Cosmo(European Organization for Nuclear Research)G. Cuttone(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)G. Depaola(Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)L. Desorgher(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)X. Dong(Northeastern University)A. Dotti(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)V. D. Elvira(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)G. Folger(European Organization for Nuclear Research)Z. Francis(Saint Joseph University)A. Galoyan(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)Laurent Garnier(Université Paris-Sud)Marek Gayer(European Organization for Nuclear Research)K. Genser(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)V. Grichine(P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences)Susanna Guatelli(University of Wollongong)P. Guèye(Hampton University)P. Gumplinger(TRIUMF)A. Howard(ETH Zurich)I. Hřivnáčová(Université Paris-Sud)S. H. Hwang(Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information)S. Incerti(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)A. Ivanchenko(European Organization for Nuclear Research)V. Ivanchenko(European Organization for Nuclear Research)F.W. Jones(TRIUMF)S. Y. Jun(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)P Kaitaniemi(University of Helsinki)Nicolas A. Karakatsanis(National Technical University of Athens)M. Karamitros(University of Notre Dame)M.H. Kelsey(Queen's University Belfast)Akira Kimura(Ashikaga University)T. Koi(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)H. Kurashige(Kobe University)Anton Lechner(European Organization for Nuclear Research)S.B. Lee(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)F. Longo(University of Trieste)M. Maire(Queen's University Belfast)Davide Mancusi(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)A. Mantero(University of Notre Dame)E. Mendoza(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)Benjamin J. Morgan(University of Warwick)K. Murakami(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)T Nikitina(European Organization for Nuclear Research)L. Pandola(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)P. Paprocki(European Organization for Nuclear Research)Joseph Perl(Queen's University Belfast)Ivan Petrović(University of Belgrade)Maria Grazia Pia(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives)Witold Pokorski(European Organization for Nuclear Research)J. M. Quesada(Universidad de Sevilla)M. Raine(Queen's University Belfast)M.A. Reis(University of Lisbon)A. Ribon(European Organization for Nuclear Research)A. Ristić Fira(University of Belgrade)F. Romanò(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)G. Russo(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)G. Santin(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)T. Sasaki(High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)D Sawkey(Varian Medical Systems (United States))B. K. Shin(Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences)I. I. Strakovsky(George Washington University)A. Taborda(University of Lisbon)S. Tanaka(Ritsumeikan University)B. Tomé(European Organization for Nuclear Research)T. Toshito(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)Hoang Ngoc Tran(Ton Duc Thang University)P.R. Truscott(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)László Urbán(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)V. Uzhinsky(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)J.M. Verbeke(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)M. Verderi(Université Paris-Saclay)B. Wendt(Idaho State University)H. Wenzel(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)D. H. Wright(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)D. Wright(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)Tomohiro Yamashita(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas)J. Yarba(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)H. Yoshida(Naruto University of Education)

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Abstract

Geant4 is a software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter. It is used by a large number of experiments and projects in a variety of application domains, including high energy physics, astrophysics and space science, medical physics and radiation protection. Over the past several years, major changes have been made to the toolkit in order to accommodate the needs of these user communities, and to efficiently exploit the growth of computing power made available by advances in technology. The adaptation of Geant4 to multithreading, advances in physics, detector modeling and visualization, extensions to the toolkit, including biasing and reverse Monte Carlo, and tools for physics and release validation are discussed here.

Radiation Therapy and Dosimetry Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Particle Detector Development and PerformanceExploitMultithreadingComputer scienceMonte Carlo methodAdaptation (eye)Variety (cybernetics)SoftwarePhysicsData scienceProgramming language

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