Simulation of experiments on studying neutron radiation using the geant4 software package

In modern elementary particle physics, conducting actual experiments becomes more complicated due to the rise in cost and complexity of technologies, as well as long-term fundamental preparation for conducting such experiments. Since the processes occurring in elementary particle physics has a statistical nature, the simulation of such experiments is a multiple measurement of a set of random processes such as particle interactions and their passage through a detector. This problem can be solved by computer simulation of physical experiments by the Monte Carlo method. This paper presents the results of modeling an experiment on studying neutron radiation using the geant4 software package. It is shown that the simulation results correlate with the actual behavior of neutrons. These data show that this method can be used in modeling such experiments.

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