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Chapter 5
Conclusions and Future Directions
5.1 Conclusions
The Geant4 simulations presented in this work accurately describe the physics
involved in the RnEDM experiment at TRIUMF. The radioactive decay simulation
package developed as part of this thesis is capable of simulating any β-decaying nucleus
given the half-life, the β-decay branching ratio to the ground state, Q-value,
daughter level spins and parities, γ-ray energies, intensities, mixing ratios, internal
conversion coefficients, and the resulting X-ray energies and intensities. Along with
reproducing the entire decay scheme and realistic β, γ, electron and X-ray energies
and probabilities, the package also simulates the angular distribution of the emitted
β particles and γ rays. This is a highly versatile radioactive decay simulation
package that will find many applications, not only in further studies of the RnEDM
experiment, but also the entire decay spectroscopy research program with GRIF-
FIN at ISAC. The RnEDM apparatus (cell, oven, magnet and µMetal shielding) was
included in Geant4 to realistically simulate the γ-ray scattering and backgrounds
present in the experimental apparatus. The GRIFFIN γ-ray spectrometer (based on
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