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Computational codes based on the Diffusion Monte Carlo method can be used to determine the quantum state of two-electron systems confined by external potentials of various nature and geometry. In this work, we show how the application of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Gaia Micca Longo , Carla Maria Coppola , Domenico Giordano , Savino Longo

Phonon Monte Carlo (PMC) is a versatile stochasic technique for solving the Boltzmann transport equation for phonons. It is particularly well suited for analyzing thermal transport in structures that have real-space roughness or are too…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 L. N. Maurer , S. Mei , I. Knezevic

Cosmic muons are highly energetic and penetrative particles and these figures are used for imaging of large and dense objects such as spent nuclear fuels in casks and special nuclear materials in cargo. Cosmic muon intensity depends on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-28 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis , Robert Bean

The underground muon detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory is aimed at attaining direct measurements of the muonic component of extensive air showers produced by cosmic rays with energy from $10^{16.5}$ eV up to the region of the ankle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 A. M. Botti , F. Sánchez , M. Roth , A. Etchegoyen

Monte Carlo methods provide detailed and accurate results for radiation transport simulations. Unfortunately, the high computational cost of these methods limits its usage in real-time applications. Moreover, existing computer codes do not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 V. Giménez-Alventosa , V. Giménez Gómez , S. Oliver Gil

Using one of the methods of quantum nonequilibrium statistical physics we have investigated the spin transport transverse to the normal metal/ferromagnetic insulator interface in hybrid nanostructures. An approximation of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. I. Lyapilin , M. S. Okorokov , V. V. Ustinov

Renewed international interest in muon colliders motivates the continued investigation of the impacts of beam-induced background on detector performance. This continues the effort initiated by the Muon Accelerator Program and carried out…

We explore the application of Monte Carlo transport methods to solving coupled radiation-hydrodynamics problems. We use a time-dependent, frequency-dependent, 3-dimensional radiation transport code, that is special relativistic and includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nathaniel Roth , Daniel Kasen

This paper reports the development of TOUCANS, a new Monte Carlo neutron transport code fully written using the Geant4 toolkit. It aims at modeling complex systems easily and rapidly, thanks to a simple key-value input file. While its main…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 L. Thulliez , B. Mom , E. Dumonteil

The MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso provides means for detailed studies of multiple coincident penetrating cosmic ray muons. In this paper we concentrate on the studies of the ultrahigh energy primary cosmic ray composition using muon bundle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-02-03 The MACRO Collaboration , J. T. Hong

As space exploration advances, underground environments are becoming increasingly attractive due to their potential to provide shelter, easier access to resources, and enhanced scientific opportunities. Although such environments exist on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Gabriel Manuel Garcia , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

This paper presents new theoretical results on the passage of muons through liquid hydrogen which have been confirmed in a recent experiment. These are used to demonstrate that muon bunches may be compressed by ionisation cooling more…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. W. M. Allison , J. H. Cobb , S. J. Holmes , R. C. Fernow , R. B. Palmer

The main features of the FLUKA Monte Carlo code, which can deal with transport and interaction of electromagnetic and hadronic particles, are summarised. The physical models embedded in FLUKA are mentioned, as well as examples of…

Muon spin rotation/relaxation/resonance (MuSR) technique for studying matter structures is considered by means of a recently introduced probability representation of quantum spin states. A relation between experimental MuSR histograms and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yu. M. Belousov , S. N. Filippov , V. N. Gorelkin , V. I. Man'ko

Large-scale neutrino telescopes have the primary objective to detect and characterize neutrino sources in the universe. These experiments rely on the detection of charged leptons produced in the interaction of neutrinos with nuclei. Angular…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-28 Pascal Gutjahr , Jean-Marco Alameddine , Alexander Sandrock , Jan Soedingrekso , Mirco Hünnefeld , Wolfgang Rhode

In this paper we describe the semi-spectral linear MHD (SLiM) code which we have written to follow the interaction of linear waves through an inhomogeneous three-dimensional solar atmosphere. The background model allows almost arbitrary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-12 R. Cameron , L. Gizon , K. Daiffallah

This program can be used to simulate polarised nucleon - nucleon collisions at high energies. Spins of colliding particles are taken into account. The program allows to calculate cross sections for various processes.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Guellenstern , P. Gornicki , L. Mankiewicz , A. Schaefer

We consider the implementation of a parallel Monte Carlo code for high-performance simulations on PC clusters with MPI. We carry out tests of speedup and efficiency. The code is used for numerical simulations of pure SU(2) lattice gauge…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Attilio Cucchieri , Tereza Mendes , Gonzalo Travieso , Andre R. Taurines

The interaction cross section of charged pions with air nuclei is a critical parameter for accurately simulating extensive air showers. Improving the modeling of high-energy pion interactions is essential for addressing the muon puzzle-the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-08 Karolin Hymon , Anatoli Fedynitch