New charge exchange model of GEANT4 for 9Be(p,n)9B reaction

A new data-based charge exchange model of GEANT4 dedicated to the 9Be(p,n)9B reaction is developed by taking the ENDF/B-VII.1 differential cross-section data as input. Our model yields results that are in good agreement with the experimental neutron yield spectrum data obtained for proton beams of energy (20–35) MeV. In particular, in contrast to all the considered GEANT4 hadronic models, the peak structure resulting from the discrete neutrons generated by the charge-exchange reaction is observed to be accurately reproduced in our model.