Speaker
Alfonso Mantero
(INFN Genova)
Description
A component of the Geant4 toolkit is responsible for the simulation of atomic
relaxation: it is part of a modelling approach of electromagnetic interactions that
takes into account the detailed atomic structure of matter, by describing particle
interactions at the level of the atomic shells of the target material.
The accuracy of Geant4 Atomic Relaxation has been evaluated against the experimental
measurements of the NIST Physical Reference Data, which include a systematic review
of the experimental body of knowledge collected and evaluated over several decades of
experimental activity.
The validation study concerns X-ray and Auger transition energies.
The comparison of the simulated and experimental data with rigorous statistical
methods demonstrates the excellent accuracy of the Geant4 simulation models;
precision better than 0.5 % is achieved in most cases.
The results of this validation study are relevant to various experimental fields,
both for elemental analysis studies and for precise simulation of energy deposit
distributions; they are also important for the design and optimization of novel
tracking detectors based on nanotechnologies, which are sensitive to the effects of
charged particles travelling short path lengths, like Auger electrons.
Primary authors
Alfonso Mantero
(INFN Genova)
Dr
Maria Grazia Pia
(INFN GENOVA)
