M. G. Pia

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2008

Number

56

Co-Authors

A TOOLKIT FOR STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF DATA DISTRIBUTIONS (2008)

B. Mascialino, M. G. Pia, A. Pfeiffer, A. Ribon, P. Viarengo

A typical problem associated to Monte Carlo developments and application consists in the validation of the simulation models and results against experimental data. A novel software toolkit has been...

Geant4 Status and Results (2008)

J. Allison, J. Apostolakis, G. Cosmo, P. Nieminen, M. G. Pia

GEANT4 is a detector simulation toolkit designed for the new generation of High Energy Physics experiments as well as for nuclear physics, astrophysics, medical and space applications and radiation...

BRACHYTHERAPY (2008)

A General-purpose, Dosimetric System For, S. Guatelli, M. G. Pia

A general-purpose, object oriented software system has been developed for the simulation and dosimetric analysis of brachytherapy applications. The flexible object-oriented design makes this system...

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION FOR RADIOTHERAPY IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT (2008)

J. T. Moscicki, S. Guatelli, M. G. Pia, M. Piergentili

We show how nowadays it is possible to achieve the goal of accuracy and fast computation response in radiotherapic dosimetry using Monte Carlo methods, together with a distributed computing model....

Geant4 physics processes for microdosimetry simulation: design foundation and implementation of the first set of models (2007)

Chauvie, S, Francis, Z, Guatelli, S, Incerti, S, Mascialino, B, Moretto, P, ...

New physical processes specific for microdosimetry simulation are under development in the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic package. The first set of models implemented for this purpose cover the...

Writing software or writing scientific articles? (2007)

Basaglia, Tullio, Bell, Z W, Dressendorfer, P V, Larkin, A, Pia, M G

An analysis of publications related to high energy physics computing in refereed journals is presented. The distribution of papers associated to various fields of computing relevant to high energy...

Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Models For Electrons And Photons (2007)

Apostolakis Giani Maire, J. Apostolakis, S. Giani, M. Maire, P. Nieminen, M. G. Pia

A set of physics processes has been developed in the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit to describe the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons with matter down to 250 eV. Preliminary...

Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic Models For Electrons And Photons (2007)

Apostolakis Giani Maire, J. Apostolakis, S. Giani, M. Maire, P. Nieminen, M. G. Pia, ...

A set of physics processes has been developed in the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit to describe the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons with matter down to 250 eV. Preliminary...

Models of biological effects of radiation in the Geant4 Toolkit (2006)

Chauvie, S., Francis, Z., Guatelli, S., Incerti, S., Mascialino, B., Montarou, G., ...

A project, named Geant4-DNA, is in progress to extend the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model the effects of radiation with biological systems at cellular and DNA level. The first component...

Models of biological effects of radiation in the Geant4 Toolkit (2006)

Chauvie, S., Francis, Z., Guatelli, S., Incerti, S., Mascialino, B., Montarou, G., ...

A project, named Geant4-DNA, is in progress to extend the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model the effects of radiation with biological systems at cellular and DNA level. The first component...

Models of biological effects of radiation in the Geant4 Toolkit (2006)

Chauvie, S., Francis, Z., Guatelli, S., Incerti, S., Mascialino, B., Montarou, G., ...

A project, named Geant4-DNA, is in progress to extend the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model the effects of radiation with biological systems at cellular and DNA level. The first component...

A new low-energy bremsstrahlung generator for GEANT4 (2005)

Peralta, L., Rodrigues, P., Trindade, A., Pia, M. G.

The 2BN bremsstrahlung cross section is a well-adapted distribution to describe the radiative processes at low-electron kinetic energy (Ek < 500 keV). In this work a method to implement this...

GEANT4: A Simulation toolkit (2003)

Agostinelli, S, Allison, J, Amako, K, Apostolakis, John, Araújo, H M, Arce, P, ...

Geant4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It includes a complete range of functionality including tracking, geometry, physics models and hits. The physics processes...

Architecture of collaborating frameworks: simulation, visualisation, user interface and analysis (2001)

Pfeier, A, Cosmo, G, Ferrero-Merlino, B, Giannitrapani, R, Longo, F, Nieminen, P, ...

The Anaphe project is an ongoing effort to provide an Object Oriented software environment for data analysis in HENP experiments. A range of commercial and public domain libraries is used to cover...

Measurement of the B$^0$ and B$^+$ meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The B0 and B+ meson lifetimes have been measured in e+e- annihilation data collected in 1999 and 2000 with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the Upsilon(4S) resonance. Events are...

Measurement of the decays $B\to\phi K$ and $B\to\phi K*$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We have observed the decays B-->phi K and phi K^* in a sample of over 45 million B mesons collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider. The measured branching fractions are BF(B^+ --> phi...

Measurement of $J/\psi$ production in continuum $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations near $\sqrt{s}=10.6-GeV$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...

Measurement of the B$^0$ and B$^+$ meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The B0 and B+ meson lifetimes have been measured in e+e- annihilation data collected in 1999 and 2000 with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the Upsilon(4S) resonance. Events are...

Measurement of the decays $B\to\phi K$ and $B\to\phi K*$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We have observed the decays B-->phi K and phi K^* in a sample of over 45 million B mesons collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider. The measured branching fractions are BF(B^+ --> phi...

Measurement of $J/\psi$ production in continuum $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations near $\sqrt{s}=10.6-GeV$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...

Measurement of the B$^0$ and B$^+$ meson lifetimes with fully reconstructed hadronic final states (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The B0 and B+ meson lifetimes have been measured in e+e- annihilation data collected in 1999 and 2000 with the BABAR detector at center-of-mass energies near the Upsilon(4S) resonance. Events are...

Measurement of the decays $B\to\phi K$ and $B\to\phi K*$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We have observed the decays B-->phi K and phi K^* in a sample of over 45 million B mesons collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II collider. The measured branching fractions are BF(B^+ --> phi...

Measurement of $J/\psi$ production in continuum $e^{+}e^{-}$ annihilations near $\sqrt{s}=10.6-GeV$ (2001)

Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...

The application of Geant4 simulation code for brachytherapy treatment (2000)

Agostinelli, S, Foppiano, F, Garelli, S, Paoli, G, Nieminen, P, Pia, M G

Brachytherapy is a radiotherapeutic modality that makes use of radionuclides to deliver a high radiation dose to a well-defined volume while sparing surrounding healthy structures. At the National...

GEANT4 simulation of energy losses of ions (1999)

Ivanchenko, V N, Giani, S, Pia, M G, Urbàn, L, Nieminen, P, Mancinelli, G

The algorithm for the simulation of energy losses of low energy ions is described. The details of its implementation in GEANT4 are discussed. The comparison of the simulation results with the...

GEANT simulation of energy losses of slow hadrons (1999)

Ivanchenko, V N, Giani, S, Pia, M G, Urbàn, L, Mancinelli, G, Nieminen, P

The algorithm of the simulation of energy losses for hadrons with kinetic energy down to few eV is described. The details of its implementation in Geant4 are discussed. The comparison of the results...

GEANT4 low energy electromagnetic models for electrons and photons (1999)

Apostolakis, John, Giani, S, Maire, M, Nieminen, P, Pia, M G, Urbàn, L

A set of physics processes has been developed in the Geant4 Simulation Toolkit to describe the electromagnetic interactions of photons and electrons with matter down to 250 eV. Preliminary...

GEANT4 Simulation Of Energy Losses Of Ions (1999)

V. N. Ivanchenko, S. Giani, M. G. Pia, L. Urban, P. Nieminen, G. Mancinelli

The algorithm for the simulation of energy losses of low energy ions is described. The details of its implementation in GEANT4 are discussed. The comparison of the simulation results with the...

Study of the reaction $\overline{p}p \to \phi \phi$ from 1.1 to 2.0 GeV/c (1998)

Evangelista, C, Palano, A, Drijard, Daniel, Hamann, N H, Jones, R T, Mouëllic, B, ...

A study has been performed of the reaction $\pptofourk$ using in-flight antiprotons from 1.1 to 2.0 GeV/$c$ incident momentum interacting with a hydrogen jet target. The reaction is dominated by the...

Study of the reaction pbar p -> phi phi from 1.1 to 2.0 GeV/c (1998)

Evangelista, C., Palano, A., Drijard, D., Hamann, N. H., Jones, R. T., Mouëllic, B., ...

A study has been performed of the reaction pbar p -> 4K using in-flight antiprotons from 1.1 to 2.0 GeV/c incident momentum interacting with a hydrogen jet target. The reaction is dominated by the...

Search for narrow $p\overline p$ resonances in the reaction $p\overline p\top\overline p \pi^{+}\pi^-$ (1998)

Buzzo, A, Debevec, P T, Drijard, Daniel, Eisenstein, R A, Evangelista, C, Eyrich, W, ...

The reaction pbar p -> pbar p pi+ pi- has been studied with high statistics at CERN-LEAR with incident pbar momenta from 1.65 to 2.0 GeV/c by the JETSET (PS202) experiment. The aim of this paper is...

Search for narrow pbar p resonances in the reaction pbar p>pbar p pi+pi- (1998)

Buzzo, A., Debevec, P., Drijard, D., Eisenstein, R. A., Evangelista, C., Eyrich, W., ...

The reaction pbar p -> pbar p pi+ pi- has been studied with high statistics at CERN-LEAR with incident pbar momenta from 1.65 to 2.0 GeV/c by the JETSET (PS202) experiment. The aim of this paper is...

Measurement of the pbar p -> Ks Ks Reaction from 0.6 to 1.9 GeV/c (1997)

Evangelista, C., Palano, A., Drijard, D., Hamann, N. H., Jones, R. T., Mouellic, B., ...

The pbar p -> Ks Ks -> 4pi+/- cross section was measured at incident antiproton momenta between 0.6 and 1.9 GeV/c using the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). This investigation was part of a...

Measurement of the $\overline{p}p \to Ks Ks$ Reaction from 0.6 to 1.9 GeV/c (1997)

Evangelista, C, Palano, A, Drijard, Daniel, Hamann, N H, Jones, R T, Mouëllic, B, ...

The pbar p -> Ks Ks -> 4pi+/- cross section was measured at incident antiproton momenta between 0.6 and 1.9 GeV/c using the CERN Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR). This investigation was part of a...