MAGE-a GEANT4-Based Monte Carlo Application Framework for Low-Background Germanium Experiments

被引：127

作者：

Boswell, Melissa ^{[1
]}

Chan, Yuen-Dat ^{[2
]}

Detwiler, Jason A. ^{[2
,3
]}

Finnerty, Padraic ^{[4
,5
]}

Henning, Reyco ^{[4
,5
]}

Gehman, Victor M. ^{[1
,3
]}

Johnson, Rob A. ^{[3
]}

Jordan, David V. ^{[6
]}

Kazkaz, Kareem ^{[3
,7
]}

Knapp, Markus ^{[8
]}

Kroeninger, Kevin ^{[9
,10
]}

Lenz, Daniel ^{[10
]}

Leviner, Lance ^{[12
]}

Liu, Jing ^{[10
]}

Liu, Xiang ^{[10
]}

MacMullin, Sean ^{[4
,5
]}

Marino, Michael G. ^{[3
]}

Mokhtarani, Akbar ^{[2
]}

Pandola, Luciano ^{[11
]}

Schubert, Alexis G. ^{[3
]}

Schubert, Jens ^{[10
]}

Tomei, Claudia ^{[11
,13
]}

Volynets, Oleksandr ^{[10
]}

机构：

[1] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[3] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[4] Univ N Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA

[5] Triangle Univ Nucl Lab, Durham, NC 27705 USA

[6] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99354 USA

[7] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

[8] Univ Tubingen, Inst Phys, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany

[9] Univ Gottingen, Inst Phys 2, D-37077 Gottingen, Germany

[10] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany

[11] INFN, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi, Italy

[12] N Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC 27607 USA

[13] INFN, Sez Roma, I-00133 Rome, Italy

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE | 2011年 / 58卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

GEANT4; germanium detectors; low background; Monte Carlo; neutrinoless double-beta decay; radiation detection; DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY; SPACE EVENT GENERATOR; NEUTRON INTERACTIONS; PHYSICS; GERDA; SIMULATION; MODEL; FRAGMENTATION; DETECTOR; CAPTURE;

D O I：

10.1109/TNS.2011.2144619

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

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 detectors to ionizing radiation, specifically the MAJORANA and GERDA neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments. MAJORANA and GERDA use high-purity germanium detectors to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay of Ge-76 and MAGE is jointly developed between these two collaborations. The MAGE framework contains the geometry models of common objects, prototypes, test stands and the actual experiments. It also implements customized event generators, GEANT4 physics lists and output formats. All of these features are available as class libraries that are typically compiled into a single executable. The user selects the particular experimental setup implementation at run-time via macros. The combination of all these common classes into one framework reduces duplication of efforts, eases comparison between simulated data and experiment and simplifies the addition of new detectors to be simulated. This paper focuses on the software framework, custom event generators and physics lists.

引用

页码：1212 / 1220

页数：9

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