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ArticlePrecision radiation oncology2023

Adding the X-ray Bragg reflection physical process in crystal to the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit, part I: reflection from a crystal slab.

Fada Guan, Makoto Asai, Dirk A Bartkoski, Michael Kleckner, Ze'ev Harel, Mohammad Salehpour

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Fada GuanDepartment of Radiation Physics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
Makoto AsaiScientific Computing Department Computational Sciences and Technology Division Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Newport News Virginia USA.
Dirk A BartkoskiDepartment of Radiation Physics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.
Michael KlecknerConvergent R.N.R Tirat Carmel Israel.
Ze'ev HarelConvergent R.N.R Tirat Carmel Israel.
Mohammad SalehpourDepartment of Radiation Physics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas USA.

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Abstract

X-ray diffraction from a solid crystal shows the wave nature of photons. It is an important electromagnetic (EM) physics process when X-ray photons interact with a crystal. Bragg diffraction, often called Bragg reflection, is a special case of the general form of X-ray diffraction, known as Laue diffraction. When the Bragg's law is met, the incident photon beam is reflected from the crystal plane behaving as a specular reflection at the Bragg angle. However, the Bragg reflection physical process has not been integrated into the general-purpose Monte Carlo simulation toolkit Geant4 for particle physics. In the current study, we developed a new EM physical process class "G4CrystalBraggReflection" and a new EM physical model class "G4DarwinDynamicalModel" for modeling the Bragg reflection physical process within a crystal. We added the Bragg reflection physical process to the EM physics category of Geant4. The preliminary results of photon tracking in a silicon crystal slab have shown the feasibility of simulating the Bragg reflection process in addition to the standard EM processes in the framework of Geant4.

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Bragg reflectioncrystalGeant4Monte CarloX‐ray

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PMCPMC11935221

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