Neutron emission from Isotope decay

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Geant4 Version: geant4-11-02-patch-02
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Hi all,

I am simulating radioactive decay of specific isotopes in Geant4. I am able to get photon emission from isotopes, However, I don’t seem to be able to get any neutron emissions even from isotopes which I would expect to beta or alpha decay with neutron emission (e.g. Cm 248). Does anyone have some suggestions that could help? Thanks in advance.

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https://geant4-userdoc.web.cern.ch/Doxygen/examples_doc/html/ExampleNeutronSource.html

This might be a good example to look at.

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Thanks Jason. The link gives the description of the application. Which example is this describing so I can look the implementation files on the GitLab repo. Thanks.

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You can copy it to a new working directory from your install directory. It is under InstallDir/lib/share/Geant4/examples/extended/hadronic/NeutronSource
or similarly from the github repo

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Thanks so much Jason. I appreciate it. Cheers.

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