G4SEE, a Single Event Effect (SEE) simulation toolkit, is being developed at CERN within the Radiation to Electronics (R2E) project for the whole radiation effects community for a wide range of practical applications. The G4SEE toolkit is a free and open-source code available for all the users. It has been already demonstrated and validated experimentally by measurements of inelastic energy deposition events of monoenergetic neutrons below 20 MeV, and other validation activities with proton and heavy ion beams are ongoing as well.
Features:
- No installation required using G4SEE Docker image
- User-friendly input macro file and commands
- Multi-layer micrometric target geometries
- User-defined custom materials (elements, compounds, mixtures)
- Modular physics with high number of optional modules
- Generic, physics-based microscopic cross-section biasing
- Event-by-event total (including both direct and indirect) energy deposition scoring
- Particle-by-particle detailed scoring in CSV file
- Grouping of secondary (and tertiary, etc.) electrons, positrons and gamma photons based on their ancestor particles
- Python scripts for macro parametrization, cluster jobs, geometry visualization, histogram merging, etc.
- Collaborative and open-source development
High-level architecture of G4SEE toolkit listing the main user inputs and outputs. Inputs are one Geant4-style macro file with commands, and a parametric config file to change parameters run-by-run (optional). Outputs are user-defined Deposited and Particle kinetic energy spectra scored in ASCII files, as well as a detailed Hits CSV file with all the requested quantities of individual particles per event (optional).