X-ray tracing using Geant4

Vacanti, G.; Buis, E. J.

Netherlands

Abstract

We describe an extension to the Geant4 software package that allows it to be used as a general purpose X-ray tracing package. We demonstrate the use of our extension by building a model of the X-ray optics of the X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, calculating its effective area, and comparing the results with the published calibration curves.

2009 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
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