Application
SR-NIEL Implementation in Mulassis
SR-NIEL Calculators (version number 3.6.0) for electrons, protons and neutrons have been embedded into Mulassis (MUlti-LAyered Shielding SImulation Software), version 1.26, that runs under Geant4 version 10.1 (patch-03) for internal ESA usage.
This task was accomplished under ESA contract 4000116146/16/NL/HK with title "Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) Calculation and Verification".
SR-NIEL and Nuclear Form Factors for electrons in Geant4
SR-NIEL cross section for electrons is included in Geant4 since version 9.5.
Starting from version 10.3 of Geant4 released on december 9 2016 (e.g., see A. Bagulya et al. (2017)) it is possible to select different nuclear form factors according to what is already implemented in SR-NIEL calculator:
- Exponential nuclear form factor
- Gaussian nuclear form factor
- Uniform nuclear form factor
Moreover the user can also choose to not use any nuclear form factor. In this case only Mott cross section is included in the scattering calculation.
To select different nuclear form factor a command is made availble to use in macro file:
/process/em/setNuclearFormFactor formfactorname
where "formfactorname" can take the following values: None, Exponential, Gaussian, Flat.
Further information about electron cross section and nuclear form factors is available at this page.
In the following graph, it is shown the differential cross section for 250 MeV electrons scattering on Silicon,using Geant4 simulations with the different nuclear form factors available.
The experimental data are from G. C. Li, M. R. Yearian, and I. Sick, Phys. Rev. C 9, 1861 (1974)
More details are available in A.Bagulya et al. (to be published)
References
A. Bagulya et al. (2017), Recent progress of Geant4 electromagnetic physics for LHC and other applications, CHEP 2016 Conference, San Francisco, October 8-14 2016, to appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS); available for download.
SR-NIEL Implementation in GRAS
SR-NIEL Calculators (version number 3.7.0) for electrons, protons, ions and neutrons is embedded into GRAS (Geant4 Radiation Analysis for Space), for internal ESA usage.
This task was accomplished under ESA contract 4000116146/16/NL/HK with title "Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) Calculation and Verification".
SR-NIEL implementation in Spenvis
SR-NIEL Calculators for electrons and Ions have been impementented and is available into SPENVIS version 4.6.8
Following is a screenshot of the SR-NIEL calculator interface implemented into SPENVIS: