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Monte Carlo-transport codes are designed to simulate the complex neutron transport physics associated with nuclear systems. These codes are tasked with simulating phenomena such as temperature effects on cross-sections, thermo-physical…

A realistic and detailed description of neutrinos in binary neutron star (BNS) mergers is essential to build reliable models of such systems. To this end, we present BNS_NURATES, a novel open-source numerical library designed for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Leonardo Chiesa , Maitraya Bhattacharyya , Filippo Mazzini , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , David Radice

By means of HARM\_COOL\_EOS, which is our code for conservative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, we developed a new scheme for the simulation of a system formed after compact binary merger. Our code works with a tabulated equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-18 Agnieszka Janiuk , Gerardo Urrutia

Neutrino interactions play a central role in transport and flavor evolution in the ejecta of binary neutron star mergers. Simulations suggest that neutron star mergers may produce magnetic fields as strong as $10^{17}$ G, but computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Mia Kumamoto , Catherine Welch

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

Ultracold neutrons (UCN) with kinetic energies up to 300 neV can be stored in material or magnetic confinements for hundreds of seconds. This makes them a very useful tool for probing fundamental symmetries of nature, by searching for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 N. J. Ayres , E. Chanel , B. Clement , P. G. Harris , R. Picker , G. Pignol , W. Schreyer , G. Zsigmond

We present general-relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers performed with GR-Athena++. Neutrino transport is treated using a moment-based, energy-integrated scheme (M1), augmented by neutrino…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Boris Daszuta , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximilian Jacobi , Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Peter Hammond , William Cook , David Radice

The neutrino flux and spectra formation in a supernova core is studied by using a Monte Carlo code. The dominant opacity contribution for nu_mu and nu_tau is elastic scattering on nucleons. In addition we switch on or off a variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mathias Th. Keil , Georg G. Raffelt , Hans-Thomas Janka

The remnant resulting from the merger of two neutron stars produces neutrinos in copious amounts. In this paper we present the neutrino emission results obtained via Newtonian, high-resolution simulations of the coalescence event. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-18 S. Rosswog , M. Liebendoerfer

We couple two-dimensional hydrodynamics to realistic one-dimensional multigroup flux-limited diffusion neutrino transport to investigate protoneutron star convection in core collapse supernovae, and more specifically, the interplay between…

Dynamic Monte Carlo simulations are used to study coupled transport (co-transport) through sub-nanometer-diameter pores. In this classic Hodgkin-Keynes mechanism, an ion species uses the large flux of an abundant ion species to move against…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-27 Dezső Boda , Éva Csányi , Dirk Gillespie , Tamás Kristóf

We present a new numerical relativity code designed for simulations of compact binaries involving matter. The code is an upgrade of the BAM code to include general relativistic hydrodynamics and implements state-of-the-art…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-12 Marcus Thierfelder , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann

We describe a general radiative equilibrium and temperature correction procedure for use in Monte Carlo radiation transfer codes with sources of temperature-independent opacity, such as astrophysical dust. The technique utilizes the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-08 J. E. Bjorkman , Kenneth Wood

In this work we extended an energy-integrated neutrino transport method to facilitate efficient, yet precise, modeling of compact astrophysical objects. We particularly focus on core-collapse supernovae. We implemented a gray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Haakon Andresen , Evan P. O'Connor , Oliver Eggenberger Andersen , Sean M. Couch

We have conducted a series of numerical experiments with the spherically symmetric, general relativistic, neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code Agile-BOLTZTRAN to examine the effects of several approximations used in multidimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-17 Eric J. Lentz , Anthony Mezzacappa , O. E. Bronson Messer , Matthias Liebendörfer , W. Raphael Hix , Stephen W. Bruenn

Neutrinos have an unique quantum feature as flavor conversions. Recent studies suggested that collective neutrino oscillations play important roles in high-energy astrophysical phenomena. Quantum kinetic equation (QKE) is capable of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Chinami Kato , Hiroki Nagakura , Taiki Morinaga

Monte Carlo simulation code has been developed and tested for studying the passage of charged particle beams and radiation through the crystalline matter at energies from tens of MeV up to hundreds of GeV. The developed Monte Carlo code…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Armen Apyan

To maximize the accuracy of background simulation and event reconstruction, high-energy neutrino telescopes require detailed knowledge of light propagation over a large volume of detection medium. If light scattering and absorption leng ths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Predrag Miocinovic , Peter Niessen

We implement general relativistic hydrodynamics in the moving-mesh code AREPO. We also couple a solver for the Einstein field equations employing the conformal flatness approximation. The implementation is validated by evolving isolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Georgios Lioutas , Andreas Bauswein , Theodoros Soultanis , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel , Friedrich K. Röpke

We study out-of-thermodynamic equilibrium effects in neutron star mergers with 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation large-eddy simulations. During merger, the cores of the neutron stars remain cold ($T \sim$ a few MeV) and out of…