Table 1

Martian atmospheric and regolith properties used in AtRIS and four different physics lists of GEANT4 (more details in the text) tested in this study.

Physics lists Model A
Model B
Model C
Model D
QGSP_BIC_HP QGSP_BERT_HP FTFP_BERT_HP FTFP_INCLXX_HP
Atmosphere setup 100 km thick spherical shell: Rsurf = 3390 km, Rtop = 3490 km
MCD atmospheric profile at Gale Crater with a total column depth of ~22 g cm−2
Regolith setup 100 m thick of soil spherical shell beneath the atmosphere 1.7 g cm−3, 50%Si, 40%O, and 10%Fe

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