<div dir="ltr"><div><div>If you're using RadioactiveDecay with GATE 7.1, there is a bug in Geant4 v10.1.1 that causes the emissions from the nuclear de-excitation to be simulated incorrectly. For example, I've found that after Lu-176 decays to Hf-176, it emits a 307 keV gamma, correctly, but then goes to the ground state by emitting an unphysical 290 keV gamma, instead of a 202 keV followed by a 88 keV gamma, or the competing conversion electrons. I don't know how other isotopes are affected, though it seems from the relevant Geant4 forum that the problem isn't specific to Hf de-excitation.<br><br></div>The bug has been fixed in G4 v10.2 (still in beta), and doesn't seem to be present in earlier versions, so if you use GATE 7.0 or earlier it shouldn't affect you.<br><br></div><span style="font-size:10pt" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="font-size:13px"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jared STRYDHORST<br>
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