K-fluorescence tracking

Asked by Paurakh

Hi,

    I am doing a shower simulation of x-ray photons at 100 keV (pencil beam) that is hitting CdTe detector. I am not interested in electron trajectory at this point. I am mainly trying to track the photons. I setup a simple simulation from the GUI of pyPENELOPE and obtained 'pe-trajectories.dat' file. In that, I can clearly see the trajectory of photons and its information (position, type of interaction, energy of photon, etc...). However, I am trying to see if there are any K-fluorescent photons. Theoretically, we expect 80-90% of photons absorbed through photo-electric effect to undergo fluorescence producing ~30 keV photons. However, I do not see that in the 'pe-trajectories.dat'. Is there a way to track these fluorescent photons and their trajectories? If so, how can I do it?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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Philippe Pinard (philippe.pinard) said :
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Sorry for the late reply

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Philippe Pinard (philippe.pinard) said :
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You are correct. Only the secondary electrons are tracked. If you are still interested I can send you a new version of the shower program which tracks all secondary particles. Which operating system are you using?

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