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Geant4 - spower example
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README file
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CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
S. Incerti et al. (a, *)
a. LP2i, IN2P3 / CNRS / Bordeaux University, 33175 Gradignan, France
* e-mail: incerti@lp2ib.in2p3.fr
---->0. INTRODUCTION.
The spower example shows how to calculate stopping power of particles
in liquid water using the Geant4-DNA physics processes and models.
This example is provided by the Geant4-DNA collaboration.
These processes and models are further described at:
http://geant4-dna.org
Any report or published results obtained using the Geant4-DNA software shall
cite the following Geant4-DNA collaboration publications:
Med. Phys. 51 (2024) 5873–5889
Med. Phys. 45 (2018) e722-e739
Phys. Med. 31 (2015) 861-874
Med. Phys. 37 (2010) 4692-4708
Int. J. Model. Simul. Sci. Comput. 1 (2010) 157–178
and for this example:
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 397 (2017) 45-50
---->1. GEOMETRY SET-UP.
The geometry is a 1 m radius sphere of liquid water (G4_WATER
material). Particles are shot randomly from the sphere centre.
Radius of the sphere, physics constructor, primary particle and
energy can be controlled by the spower.in macro file.
---->2. SET-UP
Make sure G4LEDATA points to the low energy electromagnetic data files.
The code can be compiled with cmake.
It works in MT mode.
---->3. HOW TO RUN THE EXAMPLE
In interactive mode, run:
./spower spower.in
The spower.in macro allows a full control of the simulation.
The computation of stopping power is performed in the
SteppingAction::UserSteppingAction method.
---->4. PHYSICS
Specific physics constructors, called G4EmDNAPhysics_stationary*
and adapted from G4EmDNAPhysics* are available to set all inelastic
models in a stationary mode for the computation of the stopping
power.
---->5. SIMULATION OUTPUT AND RESULT ANALYSIS
The accuracy of results may depend on incident statistics as well as
on number of steps specified in the SteppingAction::UserSteppingAction
method.
The output results consist in a text file (spower.txt), containing :
- energy of incident particles (in eV)
- stopping power (in keV/um)
- rms (i.e. standard deviation) on stopping power (in keV/um)
Gabriele Cosmo