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Contents<br />

1 INTRODUCTION 1<br />

1.1 Intent of This Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2 History of EGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2.1 Before EGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.2.2 EGS1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2.3 EGS2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2.4 EGS3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

1.2.5 EGS4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

1.3 Overview of the EGS4 Code System – Vintage 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

1.4 Improvements to EGS Since 1985 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.4.1 Version 5’s Improvements and Enhancements to EGS Electron Physics Modeling<br />

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.4.2 Improvements and Enhancements to EGS Photon Physics Modeling in Version<br />

5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.4.3 Other Improvements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

2 RADIATION TRANSPORT IN <strong>EGS5</strong> 20<br />

2.1 Description of Radiation Transport-Shower Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

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