RSim Release Notes

The release notes describe new features for the RSim product.

New RSim 2.0 Features

RSim

Basic Settings

  • Number of primary particles
  • Number of threads
  • Verbosity
  • Choice of format of CSG: CSG or tessellated solids in GDML

Physics

  • Production cuts
  • Updated physics lists from Geant4

Materials

  • More then 700 materials coming from the material database

Geometries

  • Creating CSG solids
  • Importing CAD objects (GDML, STL, H5M)

Particle Sources

  • Volume and surface sources from CSG objects
  • Point source
  • Plane source
  • Angular distribution
  • Energy spectrum

Tallies

  • Multiple volume and mesh tallies

RSim Documentation

There are three manuals, RSim Installation, RSim User Guide and RSim Examples. The User Guide contains an extensive section on the basic concepts of simulation.

RSim Examples

RSim examples contains many new examples, in particular concerning

  • Medical Applications
  • Human Radiation Shielding Applications
  • Circuit Shielding Applications