Ion transport simulation using Geant4 hadronic physics

Abstract

We discuss the recently developed capability of Geant4 to simulate ion transport.This development includes two main functionalities: a cross section calculations and a set of final stage generations for ion-ion interactions.For the cross section calculation, several empirical cross section formulae for the total reaction cross section of ion-ion interactions were implemented.For the final stage generators, the binary cascade and quark-gluon string models of Geant4 were improved so that ion reactions with matter may also be calculated.