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The computer code DECAY4 is developed to generate initial-energy, time, and angular distributions of particles emitted in radioactive decays of nuclides and in nuclear (atomic) deexcitations. Data for describing nuclear-and atomic-decay schemes are taken from the ENSDF and EADL database libraries. By way of example, the DECAY4 code is applied to describing several underground experiments.
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From Yadernaya Fizika, Vol. 63, No. 7, 2000, pp. 1355–1360.
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Ponkratenko, O.A., Tretyak, V.I. & Zdesenko, Y.G. Event generator DECAY4 for simulating double-beta processes and decays of radioactive nuclei. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 63, 1282–1287 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.855784
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