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Title: Preliminary results coupling “Stochastic Mean Field” and “Boltzmann-Langevin One Body” models with Geant4

Journal Article · · Physica Medica
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  1. Sapienza Univ. of Rome (Italy); National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Rome (Italy)
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  3. National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics, Istituto Superiore di Sanit (Italy)
  4. National Inst. of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Catania (Italy)
  5. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
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Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are widely used for medical applications and nuclear reaction models are fundamental for the simulation of the particle interactions with patients in ion therapy. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to have reliable models in MC simulations for such interactions. Geant4 is one of the most used toolkits for MC simulation. However, its models showed severe limitations in reproducing the yields measured in the interaction of ion beams below 100 MeV/u with thin targets. For this reason, we interfaced two models, SMF (“Stochastic Mean Field”) and BLOB (“Boltzmann-Langevin One Body”), dedicated to simulate such reactions, with Geant4.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1598425
Journal Information:
Physica Medica, Journal Name: Physica Medica Journal Issue: C Vol. 67; ISSN 1120-1797
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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