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We study the spectra of photospheric emission from highly relativistic gamma-ray burst outflows using a Monte Carlo (MC) code. We consider the Comptonization of photons with a fast cooled synchrotron spectrum in a relativistic jet with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Mukul Bhattacharya , Wenbin Lu , Rodolfo Santana , Pawan Kumar

A technique for the simulation of dark bremsstrahlung for electrons and muons in GEANT4 is presented. The total cross section is calculated using the Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams approximation and the outgoing kinematics are produced by scaling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Tom Eichlersmith , Jeremiah Mans , Omar Moreno , Joseph Muse , Michael Revering , Natalia Toro

Computational modelling of passage of high-energy electrons through crystalline media is carried out by means of the relativistic molecular dynamics. The results obtained are compared with the experimental data for 855 MeV electron beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 V. V. Haurylavets , V. K. Ivanov , A. V. Korol , A. V. Solov'yov

The comparative analysis of three thunderstorms on Aragats in May 2021 demonstrates that relativistic runaway electron avalanches are developing in large areas of the thunderous atmosphere.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 A. Chilingarian , G. Hovsepyan , M. Zazyan

De-excitation $\gamma$ cascades from neutron captures form a dominant background to MeV-scale signals. The Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit is widely used to model backgrounds in nuclear and particle physics experiments. While its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Leo Weimer , Emma Ellingwood , Otis Fischer , Michela Lai , Shawn Westerdale

In this paper we show that the kinetic instabilities associated with runaway electron beams play an essential role for the production of high-level non-thermal electron-cyclotron-emission (ECE) radiation. Most of the non-thermal ECE comes…

A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nima Ghal-eh , Mohammad Farhad Rahimi , Mehrnoush Manouchehri

The study of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) has the potential to improve our understanding of high energy astrophysical phenomena. In order to reliably use GRBs to this end, we first need to have a well-developed grasp of the mechanism that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-26 Tyler Parsotan , Davide Lazzati

Several models for the simulation of photon elastic scattering are quantitatively evaluated with respect to a large collection of experimental data retrieved from the literature. They include models based on the form factor approximation,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Matej Batic , Gabriela Hoff , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco

In the Alcator C-Mod tokamak, runaway electron (RE) experiments have been performed during low density, flattop plasma discharges at three magnetic fields: 2.7, 5.4, and 7.8 T, the last being the highest field to-date at which REs have been…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 R. A. Tinguely , R. S. Granetz , M. Hoppe , O. Embreus

We reevaluate our published calculations of electromagnetic showers generated by GEANT 3.21 and the radio frequency pulses they produce in ice. We are prompted by a recent report showing that GEANT 3.21-modeled showers are sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 S. Razzaque , S. Seunarine , S. Chambers , D. Besson , D. McKay , J. Ralston , D. Seckel

We present time-domain Monte Carlo simulations of radio emission from cosmic ray air showers in the scheme of coherent geosynchrotron radiation. Our model takes into account the important air shower characteristics such as the lateral and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

In the solar flare observed on June 3, 2012, high energy gamma-rays and neutrons were observed. The event includes a remarkable feature of a high neutron/gamma-ratio in the secondary particles. We have examined whether this high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 K. Kamiya , K. Koga , H. Matsumoto , Y. Muraki , S. Shibata

A considerable fraction of incident high-energy photons from astrophysical transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is Compton scattered by the Earth's atmosphere. These photons, sometimes referred to as the "reflection component",…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-21 Sourav Palit , Akash Anumarlapudi , Varun Bhalerao

This work extends the adjoint-deep learning framework for runaway electron (RE) evolution developed in Ref. [C. McDevitt et al., A physics-constrained deep learning treatment of runaway electron dynamics, Submitted to Physics of Plasmas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Christopher J. McDevitt , Jonathan Arnaud , Xian-Zhu Tang

Synchrotron radiation images from runaway electrons (REs) in an ASDEX Upgrade discharge disrupted by argon injection are analyzed using the synchrotron diagnostic tool SOFT and coupled fluid-kinetic simulations. We show that the evolution…

Simulations of particle showers in calorimeters are computationally time-consuming, as they have to reproduce both energy depositions and their considerable fluctuations. A new approach to ultra-fast simulations are generative models where…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-05 Martin Erdmann , Jonas Glombitza , Thorben Quast

In this paper, the secular full-orbit simulations of runaway electrons with synchrotron radiation in tokamak fields are carried out using a relativistic volume-preserving algorithm. Detailed phase-space behaviors of runaway electrons are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Yulei Wang , Hong Qin , Jian Liu

Benchmarking simulation codes for electron transport and scattering in matter is a crucial step for estimating uncertainties in many applications. However, experimental data for electron energies of a few MeV is scarce to make such…

The effect of rough structures on the electron emission under electron impact between 10 eV and 2 keV is investigated with a new version of the low energy electromagnetic model of GEANT4 (MicroElec). The inelastic scattering is modeled,…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 J. Pierron , Christophe Inguimbert , Mohamed Belhaj , Jérôme Puech , Mélanie Raine