Licence & Disclaimer

Licence

Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) Copyright (C) Royal Holloway, University of London 2001 - 2024.

BDSIM is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 3 of the License.

BDSIM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with BDSIM. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Referencing & Citation

Any publications including simulations made using BDSIM must cite:

L.J. Nevay et al., BDSIM: An Accelerator Tracking Code with Particle-Matter Interactions, Computer Physics Communications 252 107200 (2020).

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107200

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10745

Please cite BDSIM as well as Geant4.

Citations allow the authors to demonstrably show the code usage and therefore to continue to support the development and maintenance of BDSIM.

Note

There is the executable options --reference and --citation to display the citation in bibtex to cite BDSIM easily.

Geant4 Acknowledgement

This software includes software developed by Members of the Geant4 Collaboration ( http://cern.ch/geant4 ).

Funding Acknowledgements

BDSIM development has received funding from the following sources:

• STFC Grant: The John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (ST/P00203X/1)

• EU FP7 EuCARD-2, grant agreement 312453 (WP13, ANAC2)

• Royal Holloway University of London Impact Acceleration Account

• STFC