Recent Developments in Pre-Equilibrium and De-Excitation Models in Geant4

Abstract

Geant4 native pre-equilibrium and de-excitation models are used for sampling of residual nucleus fragmentation in a number of generators of inelastic hadron/ion interaction with nuclei including QGS, FTF, Binary Cascade, QMD and some others. The pre-compound model is responsible for pre-equlibrium emission of protons, neutrons and light ions. The de-excitation model provides sampling of evaporation of neutrons, protons and light fragments up to magnesium, Fermi break-up, statistical multifragmentation, fission and photon emission. Recently a review of the pre-equilibrium and de-excitation models of Geant4 has been performed and we report a summary of modifications introduced. The results of the validation versus various published data are presented.