TY - JOUR
T1 - Geant4 - A simulation toolkit
AU - Agostinelli, S
AU - O'Neale, Stephen
PY - 2003/7/1
Y1 - 2003/7/1
N2 - GEANT4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It includes a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits. The physics processes offered cover a comprehensive range, including electromagnetic, hadronic and optical processes, a large set of long-lived particles, materials and elements, over a wide energy range starting, in some cases, from 250 eV and extending in others to the TeV energy range. It has been designed and constructed to expose the physics models utilised, to handle complex geometries, and to enable its easy adaptation for optimal use in different sets of applications. The toolkit is the result of a worldwide collaboration of physicists and software engineers. It has been created exploiting software engineering and object-oriented technology and implemented in the C++ programming language. It has been used in applications in particle physics, nuclear physics, accelerator design, space engineering and medical physics. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
AB - GEANT4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It includes a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits. The physics processes offered cover a comprehensive range, including electromagnetic, hadronic and optical processes, a large set of long-lived particles, materials and elements, over a wide energy range starting, in some cases, from 250 eV and extending in others to the TeV energy range. It has been designed and constructed to expose the physics models utilised, to handle complex geometries, and to enable its easy adaptation for optimal use in different sets of applications. The toolkit is the result of a worldwide collaboration of physicists and software engineers. It has been created exploiting software engineering and object-oriented technology and implemented in the C++ programming language. It has been used in applications in particle physics, nuclear physics, accelerator design, space engineering and medical physics. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0038377458&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01368-8
DO - 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01368-8
M3 - Article
SN - 1872-9576
VL - 506
SP - 250
EP - 303
JO - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A. Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors
JF - Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A. Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors
ER -