Evaluation of the Effects of Gamma Irradiation from a 9Be Neutron Source in Digital ASIC’s with GEANT4

Abstract

This work presents a GEANT4 application (version 9.3.p01) for the calculation of gamma/neutron dose on a AMISC5 flip-flop target from a proton/deuteron 9Be neutron source. For comparison purposes, a gamma irradiation campaign using a 60Co standard irradiation source was also simulated. In all cases we consider energy rate per unit volume for comparison in future experiments in order to establish differences between radiation effects on electronics due to neutron/gamma and pure gamma beams.