Comparison of Geant4 electromagnetic physics models against the NIST reference data

Authors

Katsuya Amako, KEK Tsukuba Ibaraki, Ken, Japan
Susanna Guatelli, INFN Sezione di GenovaFollow
Vladimir N. Ivanchencko, CERN
Michel Maire, Lapp
Barbara Mascialino, INFN Sezione di GenovaFollow
Koichi Murakami, KEK Tsukuba Ibaraki, Ken, Japan
Petteri Nieminen, Esa, Estec Keplerlaan
Luciano Pandola, Infn Laboratorio Nazionale Del Gran Sasso
Sandra Parlati, Infn Laboratorio Nazionale Del Gran Sasso
Maria Grazia Pia, INFN Sezione di Genova
Michela Piergentili, INFN Sezione di Genova
Takashi Sasaki, KEK Tsukuba Ibaraki, Ken, Japan
Laszlo Urban, KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics

RIS ID

65792

Publication Details

Amako, K., Guatelli, S., Ivanchencko, V. N., Maire, M., Mascialino, B., Murakami, K., Nieminen, P., Pandola, L., Parlati, S., Pia, M. Grazia., Piergentili, M., Sasaki, T. & Urban, L. (2005). Comparison of Geant4 electromagnetic physics models against the NIST reference data. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 52 (4), 910-918.

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.