[Gate-users] Source am-241 how to add?

Sun Jan 25 19:50:47 CET 2015

Can You tell me if this is correct for AM-241 and Tc-m99? Mayby something
is too much or something is missing? I still have empty root file and i
dont know why...

# Phisics
/gate/physics/addProcess PhotoElectric
/gate/physics/processes/PhotoElectric/setModel StandardModel
/gate/physics/addProcess Compton
/gate/physics/processes/Compton/setModel StandardModel
/gate/physics/addProcess RayleighScattering
/gate/physics/processes/RayleighScattering/setModel PenelopeModel
/gate/physics/addProcess ElectronIonisation
/gate/physics/processes/ElectronIonisation/setModel StandardModel e-
/gate/physics/processes/ElectronIonisation/setModel StandardModel e+
/gate/physics/addProcess Bremsstrahlung
/gate/physics/processes/Bremsstrahlung/setModel StandardModel e-
/gate/physics/processes/Bremsstrahlung/setModel StandardModel e+
/gate/physics/addProcess PositronAnnihilation
/gate/physics/addProcess MultipleScattering e+
/gate/physics/addProcess MultipleScattering e-
#
# for ion source
/gate/physics/addPhysicsList emstandard
/gate/physics/addProcess RadioactiveDecay
/gate/physics/processList Enabled
/gate/physics/processList Initialized
#
# blurring
/gate/digitizer/Singles/insert blurring
/gate/digitizer/Singles/blurring/setResolution 0.15
/gate/digitizer/Singles/blurring/setEnergyOfReference 10. keV
/gate/digitizer/Singles/insert spblurring
/gate/digitizer/Singles/spblurring/setSpresolution 2.0 mm
/gate/digitizer/Singles/spblurring/verbose 0
#
# thresholder
/gate/digitizer/Singles/insert thresholder
/gate/digitizer/Singles/thresholder/setThreshold 1. keV
/gate/digitizer/Singles/insert upholder
/gate/digitizer/Singles/upholder/setUphold 15. keV
/gate/random/setEngineName JamesRandom
/gate/random/setEngineSeed default
/gate/random/verbose 1
#
# S O U R C E - Gamma - Ameryk
/gate/source/addSource AM-241
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/energytype Mono
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/particle ion
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/energy 59. keV
/gate/source/AM-241/setActivity 100. Bq
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/angtype iso
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/mintheta 90. deg
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/maxtheta 90. deg
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/minphi 0. deg
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/maxphi 360. deg
/gate/source/list
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/confine source_vol
/gate/output/verbose 2
/run/verbose 0
/event/verbose 0
/tracking/verbose 0
#
# Source shape
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/type Volume
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/shape Cylinder
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/radius 1 cm
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/halfz 1 mm
/gate/source/AM-241/gps/centre 11.2 0. 0. cm

Best regards
Michał Knap

Z wyrazami szacunku
Michał Knap

2015-01-20 12:33 GMT+01:00 Jenny Nilsson <jenny.nilsson at radfys.gu.se>:

>  Dear Michal,
>
>  If you are also locking at the energy of the alpha particles, this might
> be of interest
>
> http://hypernews.slac.stanford.edu/HyperNews/geant4/get/hadronprocess/1415.html
>
>  Apparently, the energy of the alpha particles in the radioactive decay
> are calculated incorrectly. Though, I haven’t simulated Am-241 using the
> radioactive decay function so I can’t tell if this is true for Am-241 or
> not. A heads-up, just in case.
>
>  Best regards
> Jenny Nilsson
>
>
>  20 jan 2015 kl. 10:13 skrev Pietrzyk, Uwe <u.pietrzyk at fz-juelich.de>:
>
>
>  Dear Michal,
>
>  to use an “ion” source in Gate 7, where the use of “PhysicsList"
> is recommended, you need to add the extra instruction for the
> radioactive decay as you can see in the following two lines:
>
>  # P H Y S I C S
>
>  /gate/physics/addPhysicsList emstandard
> /gate/physics/addProcess RadioactiveDecay
>
>  This is how I succeeded to use radio nuclides of different kind
> in the EduGATE/Spectro example.
>
>  I hope this helps!
>
>  Kind regards,
>
>  Uwe Pietrzyk
>
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>  On 19 Jan 2015, at 18:58, Michal Knap <michal.knap at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi All,
> Does anybody know how to add a point source AM-241 (59keV) in Gate7?
> I'll be very thankfull.
>
>    Regards
>
> Michał Knap
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