Comparison of Geant4 electromagnetic physics models against the NIST reference data

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 910-918

  Amako, Katsuya ^a,b   Guatelli, Susanna ^c   Ivanchenko, Vladimir N ^d   Maire, Michel ^e   Mascialino, Barbara ^c   Murakami, Koichi ^a,b   Nieminen, Petteri ^f   Pandola, Luciano ^g   Parlati, Sandra ^g   Pia, Maria Grazia ^c   Piergentili, Michela ^c   Sasaki, Takashi ^a,b   Urban, Laszlo ^h  

^a HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^h WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Geant4; Monte Carlo; NIST; Validation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROCESSES; GEANT4; NIST; VALIDATION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 27644584205     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.852691     Document Type: Article

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