Margar Simonyan
(lapp-Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules-In)
10/15/09, 10:30 AM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Jose Manuel Quesada Molina
(Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)
10/15/09, 11:15 AM
Users' Workshop
Mr
Markus Horn
(Ph.D.student)
10/15/09, 12:00 PM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Dr
Igor Pshenichnov
(Frankfurt Institite for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Moscow)
10/15/09, 2:30 PM
We study the validity of nucleus-nucleus collision models of Geant4 describing fragmentation of light and medium-weight nuclei (from $^{3}$He to $^{58}$Ni) in tissue-like media. Depth-dose distributions and yields of secondary fragments produced by nuclear beams were calculated and compared against experimental data. The Light-Ion Binary Cascade model and the Wilson abrasion model were used...
Zhang Qiwei
(INFN-LNS)
10/15/09, 2:30 PM
Users' Workshop
Oral presentation Users Workshop
From version 9.2 of Geant4, the LowEnergy electromagnetic processes (Livermore and Penelope) have been migrated to the design introduced for the Standard EM models. In the new approach there is only one process and multiple models that can be registered to the process. We present a validation of the migrated Geant4 electromagnetic photon models for elements and compounds with respect to...
Dr
Guofu Cao
(Institute of High Energy Physics), Prof.
Huaimin Liu
(Institute of High Energy Physics)
10/15/09, 2:50 PM
The BESIII detector is a conventional solenoidal magnetic spectrometer and operating at the upgraded Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPCII). Since the start of commissioning run in Aug. 2008, about 100M psi(2S) data and 200M J/Psi data have been collected with BESIII detector.
Using 10M psi(2S) data taken in 2008, we compare hadronic shower energy, profile and fake photons in the...
Dr
Ernesto Amato
(University of Messina)
10/15/09, 3:00 PM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
We developed a simulation in Geant4 to calculate the absorbed fractions for monoenergetic and beta electrons emitted by 199Au, 177Lu, 131I, 153Sm, 186Re and 90Y and for photons between 10 keV and 1 MeV, emitted by sources uniformly distributed in ellipsoidal volumes of soft tissue. Code validation results with respect to reference data for doses, ranges and absorbed fractions in spheres are...
Mr
Benjamin Lutz
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
10/15/09, 3:10 PM
To evaluate technologies for ILC calorimetry, the CALICE collaboration has
constructed a prototypes of highly granular sampling calorimeters. These
detectors have been tested extensively in particle beams at DESY, at CERN and at
Fermilab. The imaging capabilities of these detector provide three dimensional
information of hadronic showers with unprecedented resolution and will thus help...
Dr
Francesco Di Pompeo
(Gran Sasso National Laboratory)
10/15/09, 3:20 PM
Users' Workshop
Oral presentation Users Workshop
WArP is a double phase Dark Matter experiment using Liquid Argon as a target. In order to efficiently collect the 128 nm scintillation light a very careful light collection system, made by a wavelength shifter and a dielectric mirror, is used. A detailed & complete GEANT4 simulation of the detector has been performed, from particle interaction to PMTs photon detection. Optical photons...
Norman Graf
(SLAC)
10/15/09, 3:30 PM
Dr
S. Guatelli
(University of Wollongong, Australia)
10/15/09, 4:30 PM
A Geant4 simulation study is performed to optimise a novel neutron personnel dosimeter, developed at the Centre of Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), University of Wollongong, consisting of a silicon pixelated detector device - Medipix2- covered with a polyethylene converter on top.
In this talk we would like to illustrate the Geant4 simulation developed to optimise the novel neutron...
Mr
Bradley Oborn
(Centre for Medical Radiation Physics)
10/15/09, 4:50 PM
Geant4 has been used to simulate in high-resolution (10 micron thick voxels) the skin doses below 0.5 mm depth occurring in MRIgRT (6 MV photon beam, Varian 2100C). On the entry side lepton contamination removal has been studied to show potential skin dose reductions (at low magnetic field strengths). At high magnetic fields (>2 T) skin dose increases (up to 30% of dmax). In the exit region...
Mr
Alexander Kish
(University of Zürich)
10/15/09, 5:00 PM
The XENON100 detector is a dual phase (liquid-gas) xenon time-projection chamber for direct dark matter detection. The total amount of liquid xenon is 165 kg, of which 65 kg are in the active target enclosed in a teflon/copper structure, the rest being in the surrounding active veto volume.
UV light signals are produced by particle interactions and detected by 242 PMTs (178 in the target and...
Dr
S. Guatelli
(CMRP, University of Wollongong, Australia)
10/15/09, 5:10 PM
Silicon On Insulator (SOI) microdosimeters have been under investigation for the past ten years as a possible alternative to tissue equivalent gas counters for microdosimetric measurements in medical physics and radiation protection in earth labs, aviation and space, at Centre of Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong.
In the last 5-6 years, extensive Geant4-based simulation...
Igor Machulin
(Kurchatov Institute, Moscow)
10/15/09, 5:25 PM
The BOREXINO experiment measures the MeV and subMeV Solar neutrinos with the Borexino low background liquid scintillator detector at Gran Sasso National Laboratory. A GEANT4 based simulation was developed and used to model the physical characteristics of the Borexino detector. Object oriented structure of GEANT4 is very suitable to describe the full detector geometry and ...
Dr
Barbara Caccia
(Technologies and Health Dept. Istituto Superiore di Sanità and INFN, Roma (Italy))
10/15/09, 5:30 PM
The advances in oncological research have had an important impact on cancer patients survival, but there
has been no major or dramatic improvement in long-term survival in the lung cancer despite more
innovative treatment techniques and protocols implemented in radiation oncology. The problematic
concerning dose calculation in the presence of in-homogeneities has already been afforded by...
Dr
Giorgio Russo
(Laboratorio di Tecnologie Oncologiche (LATO) HSR Giglio, Cefalù (PA), Italy)
10/15/09, 5:50 PM
In the last few years the use of ionising radiation has obtained a relevant role as a remedy for many types of tumour pathologies. Among the different radiation techniques the Intra Operative radiation therapy (IORT) is a new way to treat some tumours [1,2,3,4], consisting of exposing the surrounding involved tissues to a single high radiation dose during surgery after the obliteration of the...
Germano Russo
(INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale - Università di Torino, Italy)
10/15/09, 6:10 PM
In radiotherapy with carbon ions, the beam interaction with tissues has to be carefully
estimated, since the spatial changes in the radiation quality due to fragmentation, energy
loss and multiple scattering imply variations in the local radiobiological effectiveness. The
information of dose deposition pattern alone is not sufficient to predict the biological effect
of treatment: a...
Dr
Francesco Romano
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy)
10/15/09, 6:30 PM
The Monte Carlo code Geant4 has been used to simulate the Leksell Gamma Knife® and to verify its treatment planning system Leksell GammaPlan® (LGP). By means of this radiosurgical technique, intracranial lesions can be treated in a single session with high precision and critical brain structures can be protected. Radiation from 201 60Co sources comes through a collimation system to the target...
Dr
Giovanni Santin
(ESA)
10/16/09, 9:00 AM
Dr
Ziad Francis
10/16/09, 9:45 AM
Dr
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
10/16/09, 10:15 AM
Prof.
Jeremy C. POLF
(UTMD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, US)
10/16/09, 11:30 AM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Makoto Asai
(SLAC)
10/16/09, 2:30 PM
Dr
Thibault Frisson
(Centre Léon Bérard)
10/16/09, 2:30 PM
Monte Carlo simulation is an important tool in medical physics to understand and analyse data taken from medical devices. It is also useful to assist the development of new medical devices and optimise their use.
GATE, a Geant4 Application, has been developed since 2001, initially for emission tomography (PET and SPECT) simulations. It encapsulates the GEANT4 libraries in order to achieve a...
Eva Sicking
(Institut fuer Kernphysik-Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Mun)
10/16/09, 2:50 PM
Dr
Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone
(INFN - LNS)
10/16/09, 2:52 PM
Hadrontherapy is an advanced example of Geant4 toolkit. Hadrontherapy application was originally developed to simulate a well specified proton therapy facility: the passive transport beam line installed at Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN) in Catania, Italy. In the recent past, Hadrontherapy went through different modifies. Nowadays, Hadrontherapy is a multifaceted and more flexible...
Krzysztof Genser
(Fermilab)
10/16/09, 3:30 PM
Dr
Domenico Lizio
(University of Messina)
10/16/09, 4:30 PM
We developed a simulation in Geant4 to compare the attenuation properties and the bremsstrahlung radiation yield of different types of plastic materials employed as shield of beta radioactive sources. Code validation results against Sandia and NIST data are presented. We discuss the influence of cuts in range, step limits and multiple scattering step limitations, for the three physics packages...
Mrs
Anita QUILES
(CEA SACLAY LMC14)
10/16/09, 4:30 PM
A project of Ion Beam Simulation on the ARTEMIS Accelerator Mass Spectrometer is carried out at LMC14. The tool GEANT4 is used to take into account all physical processes and predict and control the settings of such a facility.
Dr
concettina maiolino
(LNS)
10/16/09, 4:50 PM
An application of GEANT4 version 9.2p01 to 4π Medea detector will be presented.
MEDEA (1) is a working array aimed at the gamma and light charged particle detection in the range of intermediate energies (up to 100 MeV/A), installed at LNS. MEDEA is made of 180 BaF2 detectors, arranged in a spherical shape of 22 cm radius. Each module is made of 2 separated crystals in optical contact.
The...
Prof.
Ivan Petrovic
(Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia)
10/16/09, 4:50 PM
Series of numerical simulations with the GEANT4 code were carried out to verify and better interpret radiobiological parameters and biological effects obtained after irradiation of HTB140 human melanoma cells. Irradiations were performed at INFN-LNS with the 62 MeV proton beams at the full energy Bragg peak as well as along the spread out Bragg peak (SOBP) and its distal fall-off part. HTB140...
Faiza Bourhaleb
(University of Turin, Dpt experimental physics and INFN, Torino, IT)
10/16/09, 5:10 PM
Background: The importance of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the field of advanced radiation therapy increases with the necessity to investigate the effect of detectors, monitoring systems and ripple filters at the design phase. In this work we present our investigations using MC simulations of the effects of each of the elements in a beam delivery line of a particle therapy...
Francesca Renzi
(MAPrad s.r.l)
10/16/09, 5:10 PM
This work presents the features of a monitoring system developed for radiation hardness studies on electronics components and systems at Superconducting Cyclotron at INFN-LNS (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy). Relevant beam parameters as flux, 3-D beam profile and energy are measured with high accuracy with double sided 1.5 mm thick...
Mr
Jungwook Shin
(National Cancer Center, Korea)
10/16/09, 5:30 PM
We have been developing a Monte Carlo simulation software to be applied in clinical usage.
To apply a Monte Carlo simulation in clinical support, the reproducibility of real irradiation is prerequisite. From modeling the therapeutic nozzle to mimicking treatment scheme, we have successfully modeled our beam delivery system which is using rotation modulation wheels to generate a spread-out...
Dr
Ziad Francis
(IRSN FRANCE)
10/16/09, 5:50 PM
Track structure simulation using the Monte-Carlo method has become increasingly important not only on the macroscopic scale but also on the nanometric and the molecular simulation level. Many studies (mostly done by Nikjoo et al., and Goodhead et al.) showed that damage clustering in cell nucleus is related to the energy deposits distribution inside the cell. However, experimentally it is...
Till Tobias Boehlen
(CERN/KI/SU)
10/16/09, 6:10 PM
Introduction:
An accurate prediction of radiation fields resulting from therapeutic carbon ions in the patient is needed in order to evaluate correctly their biological effectiveness.
Materials and Methods:
Hadronic models of the Monte Carlo transport codes: Geant4 and Fluka, are benchmarked for regimes relevant for therapeutic carbon ions. The ability of the Monte Carlo codes to...
Ivana Hrivnacova
10/17/09, 8:40 AM
Joseph Perl
(Unknown)
10/17/09, 9:00 AM
John Allison
10/17/09, 9:15 AM
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
10/17/09, 9:30 AM
Daniel Elvira
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
10/17/09, 9:45 AM
Victor Daniel Elvira
(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
10/17/09, 10:10 AM
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
10/19/09, 8:40 AM
Andrea Dotti
(INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))
10/19/09, 9:10 AM
Luciano Pandola
(INFN-INGS)
10/19/09, 9:15 AM
Alfonso Mantero
(IN2P3/CENBG)
10/19/09, 9:20 AM
susanna guatelli
(University of Wollongong)
10/19/09, 9:25 AM
Dr
Tatsumi Koi
(SLAC)
10/19/09, 9:30 AM
Krzysztof Genser
(Fermilab)
10/19/09, 9:40 AM
Fermilab Geant4 Performance Group Activities and related matters
will be presented together with some suggestions and reminders regarding C++ coding techniques and style
Gunter Folger
(CERN)
10/19/09, 11:10 AM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Xin Dong
(Northeastern University)
10/19/09, 11:40 AM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Gene Cooperman
(Unknown)
10/19/09, 12:10 PM
Oral presentation Users Workshop
Pekka Kaitaniemi
(Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)
10/19/09, 2:10 PM
Jose Manuel Quesada Molina
(Depto. de Fis. Atom., Mole. y Nucl.-Universidad de Sevilla-Unkno)
10/19/09, 2:25 PM
Dr
Tatsumi Koi
(SLAC)
10/19/09, 2:40 PM
Dr
Tatsumi Koi
(SLAC)
10/19/09, 2:55 PM
Dr
Giacomo Cuttone
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy)
10/19/09, 3:10 PM
10/19/09, 3:20 PM
Gunter Folger
(CERN)
10/19/09, 4:10 PM
Dr
Tatsumi Koi
(SLAC)
10/19/09, 4:30 PM
Dennis Herbert Wright
(Stanford University)
10/19/09, 4:50 PM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/19/09, 5:10 PM
Dennis Herbert Wright
(Stanford University)
10/20/09, 8:40 AM
Dr
Mikhail Kosov
(CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
10/20/09, 9:05 AM
Vladimir Uzhinskiy
(Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))
10/20/09, 9:30 AM
Dr
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
10/20/09, 9:55 AM
10/20/09, 12:10 PM
susanna guatelli
(University of Wollongong)
10/20/09, 2:10 PM
Marcin Latocha
(AIT, Austria)
10/20/09, 2:30 PM
Zyad Francis Francis
10/20/09, 2:45 PM
10/20/09, 3:00 PM
Dr
Mikhail Kosov
(CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
10/20/09, 4:10 PM
Laurent Desorgher
(SpaceIT)
10/20/09, 4:20 PM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/20/09, 4:30 PM
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
10/20/09, 4:50 PM
Sunanda Banerjee
(Fermilab)
10/20/09, 4:50 PM
Gabriele Camellini
(CERN)
10/20/09, 5:10 PM
Dr
Julia Yarba
(Fermilab)
10/20/09, 5:10 PM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/21/09, 8:40 AM
Luciano Pandola
(Unknown)
10/21/09, 9:05 AM
Andreas Schaelicke
10/21/09, 9:30 AM
Mr
Miguel A. Cortes-Giraldo
(University of Sevilla)
10/21/09, 11:10 AM
10/21/09, 12:30 PM
Dr
Omrane Kadri
(National Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies)
10/21/09, 2:10 PM
Dr
Ben Morgan
(University of Warwick)
10/21/09, 2:10 PM
Laszlo Urban
(Unknown)
10/21/09, 2:30 PM
10/21/09, 2:40 PM
Joseph Perl
(Unknown)
10/21/09, 2:50 PM
10/21/09, 3:10 PM
Christina Zacharatou Jarlskog
(Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen),
Michel Maire
(LAPP)
10/21/09, 4:10 PM
Collaboration Workshop
Anton Lechner
(Atominst. der Oest. Universitaeten - Technische Universitaet Wien)
10/21/09, 4:30 PM
Collaboration Workshop
Laszlo Urban
(Unknown),
Michel Maire
(Unknown)
10/21/09, 4:50 PM
Collaboration Workshop
Frederic Dupertuis
10/21/09, 5:10 PM
Collaboration Workshop
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/21/09, 5:30 PM
Collaboration Workshop
Dr
Mikhail Kosov
(CERN, ITEP(MOSCOW))
10/22/09, 8:40 AM
Joseph Perl
10/22/09, 8:50 AM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/22/09, 9:00 AM
Gunter Folger
(CERN)
10/22/09, 9:10 AM
Sebastien Laurent Incerti
10/22/09, 9:20 AM
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
10/22/09, 9:30 AM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/22/09, 9:40 AM
Makoto Asai
(SLAC)
10/22/09, 9:50 AM
Prof.
Vladimir Ivantchenko
(CERN, ESA)
10/22/09, 10:00 AM
Andreas Schaelicke
10/22/09, 10:10 AM
Gabriele Cosmo
10/22/09, 10:50 AM
Makoto Asai
(SLAC)
10/22/09, 11:10 AM
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
10/22/09, 11:30 AM
Krzysztof Genser
(Fermilab)
Users' Workshop
Oral presentation Users Workshop
We will present results of simulations of total absorption
calorimeters in the context of dual (Cerenkov/Scintillation) readout
calorimetry studies.
Using various conditions and geometries we will show simulation
aspects related to the underlying physics processes,
especially the hadronic ones.
25.
MAGE - a GEANT4-based Monte Carlo Application Framework for Low-background Germanium Experiments
Reyco Henning
(U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Users' Workshop
Oral presentation Users Workshop
We describe a physics simulation software
framework, MAGE , that is based on the GEANT4 simulation
toolkit. MAGE is used to simulate the response
of ultra-low radioactive background radiation detectors to
ionizing radiation, specifically the MAJORANA and GERDA
neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. MAJORANA
and GERDA use High-purity Germanium technology to
search for the...
