PIXE simulation with geant4

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3614-3649

  Pia, Maria Grazia ^a   Weidenspointner, Georg ^b,c   Augelli, Mauro ^d   Quintieri, Lina ^e   Saracco, Paolo ^a   Sudhakar, Manju ^a,f   Zoglauer, Andreas ^g  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

^d CNES   (France)

^e INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geant4; Ionization; Monte carlo; PIXE

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO; PARTICLE INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION; PASSIVE SHIELDING; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPES; SPACE MISSIONS; X-RAY DETECTOR;

GAMMA RAYS; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 72349098417     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2033993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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