[Gate-users] What are the radioactive decay data files

[Francesca De Benetti]

Dear GATE users,

I am trying to simulate the energy deposition of a point source of Lu177, with user-defined spectrum. 
In the GATE wiki website I read that "The download of radioactive decay data files is required.”, but I don’t know where to find them and then how to include them in the simulation. Also, here https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac <https://github.com/OpenGATE/GateContrib/tree/06a240b36ca55b9ec00f852df65265109bba4859/dosimetry/dosimetry/protontherapy/mac> they don’t seem to download/include these radioactive decay data files, event though they actually use the RadioactiveDecay process.
Can please someone explain me what to do to simulate a radioactive decay? 

For completeness, I copy here the “Physics” section of my macro:

/gate/physics/addPhysicsList							emlivermore
/gate/physics/addProcess							Compton
/gate/physics/processes/Compton/setModel			LivermoreModel
/gate/physics/addProcess							RayleighScattering
/gate/physics/processes/RayleighScattering/setModel		LivermoreModel
/gate/physics/addProcess							RadioactiveDecay
/gate/physics/addProcess							HadronElastic
/gate/physics/processes/HadronElastic/setModel			G4HadronElastic
/gate/physics/processes/HadronElastic/setDataSet		G4HadronElasticDataSet
/gate/physics/processList 				               		Enabled 
/gate/physics/processList 				               		Initialized


Thank you for your help!


Best regards,

Francesca
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