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<p>Dear Kyu</p>
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<p>10^9 primary particles is a limit set by Geant4. You'll find some comments on this and a possible work around in a previous post on the mailing list.
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<p><a href="http://lists.opengatecollaboration.org/pipermail/gate-users/2019-September/011057.html" class="OWAAutoLink">http://lists.opengatecollaboration.org/pipermail/gate-users/2019-September/011057.html</a><br>
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<p>Best,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Gate-users <gate-users-bounces@lists.opengatecollaboration.org> on behalf of Oh, Kyuhak <koh39@illinois.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:54:20 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gate-users@lists.opengatecollaboration.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Gate-users] Number of particles</font>
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Hello.</div>
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I am designing voxels for dose profile in water phantom which size is 2 X 2 X 2 mm^3.</div>
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I made the number of particles as 10^9, but there were many errors.</div>
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The graph was very fluctuating.</div>
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I tried to increase the number of particles as 10^10, but it is not working.</div>
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Is there limitation for the number of particles?</div>
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Is there any solution for increasing the number of particles?</div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Kyu</div>
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