The effects of the radiation environment on the instruments of the XMM-Newton spacecraft were modeled with GEANT4 prior to launch by the European Space Agency in 1999. XMM-Newton carries the most ...
Nicole Ackerman is a serious physics geek. As a graduate student at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, she ran computer simulations for EXO, the Enriched Xenon Observatory, an investigation into ...
Software first created for basic research in particle-physics has been used to improve cancer therapy techniques that use high-energy beams of hadrons. Researchers in Germany used the GEANT4 toolkit ...