Ядерна фізика та енергетика Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy   ISSN: 1818-331X (Print), 2074-0565 (Online)   Publisher: Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine   Languages: Ukrainian, English   Periodicity: 4 times per year   Open access peer reviewed journal

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D. S. Kovalenko^*, V. V. Kobychev, L. M. Kobycheva, O. V. Zueva

Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

^*Corresponding author. E-mail address: danylo.kovalenko00@gmail.com

Abstract: Simourg is a software based on the Geant4 toolkit and provides the Monte Carlo simulation of nuclear spectrometric setups with simple geometries for such applications as nuclear decay research, radiation safety, and nuclear medicine. With just a few command lines, users can define simple geometries, materials, and radiation sources to obtain reliable approximations for typical experimental setups. Simourg version 2.0, currently in its prerelease stage, introduces extended functionality for data extraction, geometry configuration, debugging, and visualization.

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation, radiation detector, nuclear spectrometry, detector geometry, detector response, energy deposition, particle trajectory, 3D visualization.

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