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We demonstrate the importance and utility of Monte Carlo simulation of single-photon detectors. Devising an optimal simulation is strongly influenced by the particular application because of the complexity of modern, avalanche-diode-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Mario Stipčević , Daniel J. Gauthier

Monte Carlo event generators are the central interface between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements in collider physics. Over several decades, a comprehensive and highly modular ecosystem of tools has developed around…

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Modeling the response of gamma detectors has long been a challenge within the nuclear community. Significant research has been conducted to digitally replicate instruments that can cost over $100,000 and are difficult to operate outside a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-21 Matthew Niichel , Stylianos Chatzidakis

We describe the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation package of the `2K-CAPTURE' setup and discuss the agreement of its output with data. The `2K-CAPTURE' MC simulates the energy loss of particles in detector and components of the passive shield and…

Monte Carlo simulations are a crucial tool for the analysis and prediction of various background components in liquid xenon (LXe) detectors. With improving shielding in new experiments, the simulation of external backgrounds, such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-31 S. Bruenner , A. P. Colijn , M. P. Decowski , O. V. Kesber

Monte Carlo simulation is an essential component of experimental particle physics in all the phases of its life-cycle: the investigation of the physics reach of detector concepts, the design of facilities and detectors, the development and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 Maria Grazia Pia , Georg Weidenspointner

In previous publications, we have presented an alternative approach to determine essential detector properties like the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), the Noise Power Spectrum (NPS) and the Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE) based on a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Karl Stierstorfer , Martin Hupfer

The reduced density matrix (RDM) plays a key role in quantum entanglement and measurement, as it allows the extraction of almost all physical quantities related to the reduced degrees of freedom. However, restricted by the degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Bin-Bin Mao , Yi-Ming Ding , Zhe Wang , Shijie Hu , Zheng Yan

The JUNO neutrino detector system is simulated using Monte-Carlo and analytical methods. A large number of proton decay events are also simulated. Preliminary results from this endeavor are presented in the present article.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Srikanta Sinha

Purpose: Current photon-counting computed tomography detectors are limited to a pixel size of around 0.3 mm-0.5 mm due to excessive charge sharing degrading the dose efficiency and energy resolution as the pixels become smaller. In this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Rickard Brunskog , Mats Persson , Zihui Jin , Mats Danielsson

The recently developed density matrix quantum Monte Carlo (DMQMC) algorithm stochastically samples the N -body thermal density matrix and hence provides access to exact properties of many-particle quantum systems at arbitrary temperatures.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-15 Fionn D. Malone , N. S. Blunt , James J. Shepherd , D. K. K. Lee , J. S. Spencer , W. M. C. Foulkes

In recent years, radio detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), with energies above $10^{18}$ eV, has become an established technique. The radio emissions can be simulated with high accuracy using Monte Carlo codes such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Arsène Ferrière

Because of properties of QED, the bremsstrahlung corrections to decays of particles or resonances can be calculated, with a good precision, separately from other effects. Thanks to the widespread use of event records such calculations can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-07 Z. Was , P. Golonka , G. Nanava

The photon flux resulting from high-energy electron beam interactions with high field systems, such as in the upcoming FACET-II experiments at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, may give deep insight into the electron beam's underlying…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 M. Yadav , M. Oruganti , S. Zhang , B. Naranjo , G. Andonian , Y. Zhuang , Ö. Apsimon , C. P. Welsch , J. B. Rosenzweig

The Hyper-Kamiokande Water-Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors are simulated using Monte-Carlo and analytical methods. A few simple events are also simulated and these preliminary results are presented.

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-28 Srikanta Sinha

In physics simulation chains, the PHOTOS Monte Carlo program is often used to simulate QED effects in decays of intermediate particles and resonances. The program is based on an exact multiphoton phase space. In general, the matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Qingjun Xu , Z. Was

We describe in detail the method for Particle-in cell/Monte-Carlo simulation of electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) discharges. In the simulation, electric and magnetic fields are obtained by solving Maxwell equations, and electrons and ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ardehali

Radiation damage significantly impacts the performance of silicon tracking detectors in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments such as ATLAS and CMS, with signal reduction being the most critical effect; adjusting sensor bias voltage and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-22 Keerthi Nakkalil , Marco Bomben

A low pressure discharge sustained in molecular hydrogen with help of the electron cyclotron resonance heating at a frequency of 2.45 GHz is simulated using a fully electromagnetic implicit charge- and energy-conserving…

A software toolkit for the simulation of activation background for high energy detectors onboard satellites is presented on behalf of the HERMES-SP collaboration. The framework employs direct Monte Carlo and analytical calculations allowing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 G. Galgoczi , J. Ripa , G. Dilillo , M. Ohno , R. Campana , N. Werner