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An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

We analytically study diffusive particle acceleration in relativistic, collisionless shocks. We find a simple relation between the spectral index s and the anisotropy of the momentum distribution along the shock front. Based on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman

The mass and kinetic energy distribution of nuclear fragments from thermal neutron induced fission of 235U have been studied using a Monte-Carlo simulation. Besides reproducing the pronounced broadening on the standard deviation of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-09-10 M. Montoya , E. Saettone , J. Rojas

Evaluation of the angular distribution function of particles scattered in an amorphous medium is improved by deforming the integration path in the Fourier integral representation into the complex plane. That allows us to present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 M. V. Bondarenco

We study a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm to sample from the Gibbs measure with a non-convex energy function at a low temperature. We use the practical and popular geometric annealing schedule, and use a Langevin diffusion at each…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Ruiyu Han , Gautam Iyer , Dejan Slepčev

Recent work incorporating geometric ideas in Markov chain Monte Carlo is reviewed in order to highlight these advances and their possible application in a range of domains beyond Statistics. A full exposition of Markov chains and their use…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-19 Samuel Livingstone , Mark Girolami

The atmospheric scattering of light has a significant influence on results of optical observations of air showers. It causes attenuation of direct light from the shower, but also contributes a delayed signal to the observed light. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-10 Jan Pekala , Henryk Wilczynski

The need to calibrate increasingly complex statistical models requires a persistent effort for further advances on available, computationally intensive Monte Carlo methods. We study here an advanced version of familiar Markov Chain Monte…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-20 Alexandros Beskos , Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos , Erik Pazos

We analyse the convergence and stability of a micro-macro acceleration algorithm for Monte Carlo simulations of stiff stochastic differential equations with a time-scale separation between the fast evolution of the individual stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Przemysław Zieliński , Hannes Vandecasteele , Giovanni Samaey

A quantum Monte Carlo study of the atomization energies for the G2 set of molecules is presented. Basis size dependence of diffusion Monte Carlo atomization energies is studied with a single determinant Slater-Jastrow trial wavefunction…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. R. Petruzielo , Julien Toulouse , C. J. Umrigar

We propose in this work a Monte Carlo method for three dimensional scalar radiative transfer equations with non-integrable, space-dependent scattering kernels. Such kernels typically account for long-range statistical features, and arise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Christophe Gomez , Olivier Pinaud

The influence of nearest-neighbor diffusion on the decay of a metastable low-coverage phase (monolayer adsorption) in a square lattice-gas model of electrochemical metal deposition is investigated by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Frank , Daniel E. Roberts , Per Arne Rikvold

The angular distribution of the phase space arising in two-particle emission reactions induced by electrons and neutrinos is computed in the laboratory (Lab) system by boosting the isotropic distribution in the center of mass (CM) system…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 I. Ruiz Simo , C. Albertus , J. E. Amaro , M. B. Barbaro , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly

This paper describes the Monte Carlo simulation developed specifically for the VCS experiments below pion threshold that have been performed at MAMI and JLab. This simulation generates events according to the (Bethe-Heitler + Born) cross…

We propose to revisit the diffusion of atoms in the Knudsen regime in terms of a complex dynamical reflection process. By means of molecular dynamics simulation we emphasize the asymptotic nature of the cosine law of reflection at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Franck Celestini , Fabrice Mortessagne

We introduce a theoretical approach to study the quantum-dissipative dynamics of electronic excitations in macromolecules, which enables to perform calculations in large systems and cover long time intervals. All the parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 S. A Beccara , F. Mascherpa , E. Schneider , P. Faccioli

We have modeled the simultaneous first-order Fermi shock acceleration of protons, electrons, and helium nuclei by relativistic shocks. By parameterizing the particle diffusion, our steady-state Monte Carlo simulation allows us to follow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Donald C. Warren , Donald C. Ellison , Andrei M. Bykov , Shiu-Hang Lee

Monte Carlo methods have become increasingly relevant for control of non-differentiable systems, approximate dynamics models and learning from data. These methods scale to high-dimensional spaces and are effective at the non-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Joe Watson , Jan Peters

Anisotropic light transport is extremely common among scattering materials, yet a comprehensive picture of how macroscopic diffusion is determined by microscopic tensor scattering coefficients is not fully established yet. In this work, we…

Behavior of the mixture of particles and dimers moving with different jump rates at reconstructed surfaces is described. Collective diffusion coefficient is calculated by the variational approach. Anisotropy of the collective particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-12 Marcin Mińkowski , Magdalena A. Załuska Kotur