arxiv: 0912.1713 · v1 · submitted 2009-12-09 · ⚛️ physics.comp-ph

Recent Developments on PIXE Simulation with Geant4

M. G. Pia (1 , 2) , G. Weidenspointner (3 , 4) , M. Augelli (5) , L. Quintieri (6) , P. Saracco (1) , M. Sudhakar (1)

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A. Zoglauer (7) ((1) INFN Sezione di Genova (2) European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (3) MPI Halbleiterlabor (4) Max-Planck Institut f\"ur extraterrestrische Physik (5) CNES (6) INFN Sezione di Frascati (7) University of California Space Science Laboratory)

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Particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) is an important physical effect that is not yet adequately modelled in Geant4. This paper provides a critical analysis of the problem domain associated with PIXE simulation and describes a set of software developments to improve PIXE simulation with Geant4. The capabilities of the developed software prototype are illustrated and applied to a study of the passive shielding of the X-ray detectors of the German eROSITA telescope on the upcoming Russian Spectrum-X-Gamma space mission.

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