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Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is a state-of-the-art technique in designing sophisticated apparatus for various applications in science and technology. We adopted MCS based on GEANT (GEometry ANd Tracking) in order to design a simple…

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Based on a paper published in 2019 by the FCAL Collaboration, this talk is giving an update of the Collaboration's effort to design prototype of highly compact calorimeter to instrument the very forward region of a detector at future…

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To expedite the commissioning process of the proton therapy system at Samsung Medical Center (SMC), we have developed a Monte Carlo simulation model of the proton therapy nozzles using TOPAS. At SMC proton therapy center, we have two gantry…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Kwangzoo Chung , Jinsung Kim , Dae-Hyun Kim , Sunghwan Ahn , Youngyih Han

Properties of response functions of room temperature gamma-radiation detectors based on wide band-gap semiconductors are researched using Monte-Carlo method. It is shown that approximate formulas which connect detector sensitivity with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-07-24 Alexandr A. Zakharchenko

Monte-Carlo generator with photon jets radiation in collinear regions for the process \eegg is described in detail. Radiative corrections in the first order of $\alpha$ are treated exactly. Large leading logarithmic corrections coming from…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-13 S. I. Eidelman , G. V. Fedotovich , E. A. Kuraev , A. L. Sibidanov

Quantum circuit simulation provides the foundation for the development of quantum algorithms and the verification of quantum supremacy. Among the various methods for quantum circuit simulation, tensor network contraction has been increasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Hiroyuki Ootomo , Hidetaka Manabe , Kenji Harada , Rio Yokota

We introduce a powerful Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the atomistic simulation of bulk models of oligo- and poly-thiophenes by redesigning MC moves originally developed for considerably simpler polymer structures and architectures, such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Flora D. Tsourtou , Stavros D. Peroukidis , Loukas D. Peristeras , Vlasis G. Mavrantzas

Purpose: Monte Carlo methods are considered the gold standard for dosimetric computations in radiotherapy. Their execution time is however still an obstacle to the routine use of Monte Carlo packages in a clinical setting. To address this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Sami Hissoiny , Hugo Bouchard , Benoît Ozell , Philippe Després

Monte Carlo simulations are widely employed to measure the physical properties of glass-forming liquids in thermal equilibrium. Combined with local Monte Carlo moves, the Metropolis algorithm can also be used to simulate the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-23 Ludovic Berthier , Federico Ghimenti Frédéric van Wijland

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for many routine clinical applications. In this paper, we present our…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xun Jia , Xuejun Gu , Yan Jiang Graves , Michael Folkerts , Steve B. Jiang

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

A two-dimensional Ising model with nearest-neighbors ferromagnetic interactions is implemented in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board.Extensive Monte Carlo simulations were carried out using an efficient hardware representation of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Francisco Ortega-Zamorano , Marcelo A. Montemurro , Sergio A. Cannas , José M. Jerez , Leonardo Franco

X-ray fluorescence computed tomography based on sheet-beam can save a huge amount of time to obtain a whole set of projections using synchrotron. However, it is clearly unpractical for most biomedical research laboratories. In this paper,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Shanghai Jiang , Peng He , Luzhen Deng , Mianyi Chen , Biao Wei

Simple software for Monte Carlo(MC) calculation of the Higgs boson lineshape and its beam broadening effect by the beam energy dispersion was described. The software bases on FOAM [4] adaptive MC integrator from ROOT library [2]. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-02 S. Jadach , R. A. Kycia

Correlated fermions are of high interest in condensed matter (Fermi liquids, Wigner molecules), cold atomic gases and dense plasmas. Here we propose a novel approach to path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) simulations of strongly degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-15 Tobias Dornheim , Simon Groth , Alexey Filinov , Michael Bonitz

Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications, especially for online adaptive radiotherapy. In this paper, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Xun Jia , Xuejun Gu , Josep Sempau , Dongju Choi , Amitava Majumdar , Steve B. Jiang

Sourceless efficiency calibration of high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors can provide accurate detector-response information without experiments using radioactive calibration sources, offering advantages in both convenience and safety. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-26 Kainan Zhang , Shuchang Yan , Zhen Wu , Hui Zhang , Rui Qiu , Junli Li

Monte Carlo simulations are powerful tools for understanding the effects of radiation interactions within detector devices allowing not only to evaluate typical estimates for experimental measurements and to serve as means for designing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-02-09 F. Marinho , K. Akiba

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

We investigate thermal rectification in nanoporous silicon using a semi-classical Monte Carlo (MC) simulation method. We consider geometrically asymmetric nanoporous structures, and investigate the combined effects of porosity, inter-pore…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-18 Dhritiman Chakraborty , Joshua Brooke , Nick C S Hulse , Neophytos Neophytou