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Experiments searching for extremely rare events surround their sensitive detectors with several layers of different shielding materials to protect them from external radiation and to achieve their low-background requirements to be able to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-27 B. Zatschler , A. J. Biffl , R. Calkins , M. D. Diamond , J. Hall , S. A. S. Harms , M. H. Kelsey , D. S. Pedreros , S. Zatschler

NuSD: Neutrino Segmented Detector is a Geant4-based user application that simulates inverse beta decay event in a variety of segmented scintillation detectors developed by different international collaborations. This simulation framework…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-28 Mustafa Kandemir , Emrah Tiras , Vincent Fischer

We discuss a novel use of the Geant4 simulation toolkit to model molecular transport in a vacuum environment, in the molecular flow regime. The Geant4 toolkit was originally developed by the high energy physics community to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 J. Singal , J. Langton , R. Schindler

After the development of a BoGEMMS (Bologna Geant4 Multi-Mission Simulator) template for the back- ground study of X-ray telescopes, a new extension is built for the simulation of a Gamma-ray space mission (e.g. AGILE, Fermi), conceived to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Marco Tavani , Martino Marisaldi , Sabina Sabatini , Giuseppe Malaguti , Massimo Trifoglio , Fulvio Gianotti

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has significantly improved the efficiency and realism of three-dimensional scene visualization in several applications, ranging from robotics to eXtended Reality (XR). This work presents SAGE (Semantic-Driven…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chiara Schiavo , Elena Camuffo , Leonardo Badia , Simone Milani

Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM)-based detectors using a layer of 10B as a neutron converter is becoming popular for thermal neutron detection. A common strategy to simulate this kind of detector is based on two frameworks: Geant4 and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 R. Felix dos Santos , M. G. Munhoz , M. Moralles , L. A. Serra Filho , M. Bregant , F. A. Souza

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

The full-energy-peak efficiency of HPGe detectors at $\gamma$-ray energies around 10 MeV is not easily accessible with experimental methods. Monte-Carlo simulations with Geant4 can provide these efficiencies. G4Horus is a ready-to-use…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-15 Jan Mayer , Elena Hoemann , Markus Müllenmeister , Philipp Scholz , Andreas Zilges

The ability of background discrimination using pulse shape discrimination (PSD) in broad-energy germanium (BEGe) detectors makes them as competitive candidates for neutrinoless double beta decay (0{\nu}\b{eta}\b{eta}) experiments. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-28 Zhi Zeng , Yu-Hao Mi , Ming Zeng , Hao Ma , Qian Yue , Jian-Ping Cheng , Jun-Li Li , Rui Qiu , Hui Zhang

A novel Compton Scanner setup has been built, commissioned and operated at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Munich to collect pulses from bulk events in high-purity germanium detectors for pulse shape studies. In this fully automated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-25 I. Abt , C. Gooch , F. Hagemann , L. Hauertmann , D. Hervas Aguilar , X. Liu , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond

MEG (Mu to Electron Gamma) is an experiment dedicated to search for the $\mu^+ \rightarrow e^+\gamma$ decay that is strongly suppressed in the Standard Model but predicted in several Super Symmetric extensions of it at an accessible rate.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-18 Paolo W. Cattaneo , Fabrizio Cei , Ryu Sawada , Matthias Schneebeli , Shuei Yamada

Radiation transport models of two high purity germanium detectors, GeII and GeIII, located at the University of Alabama have been created in GEANT4 \cite{geant4}. These detectors have been used extensively for radioassay measurements of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-30 R. H. M. Tsang , A. Piepke , D. J. Auty , B. Cleveland , S. Delaquis , T. Didberidze , R. MacLellan , Y. Meng , O. Nusair , T. Tolba

Experiments searching for rare processes like neutrinoless double beta decay heavily rely on the identification of background events to reduce their background level and increase their sensitivity. We present a novel machine learning based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-04 P. Holl , L. Hauertmann , B. Majorovits , O. Schulz , M. Schuster , A. J. Zsigmond

A research and development (R&D) project related to the extension of the Geant4 toolkit has been recently launched to address fundamental methods in radiation transport simulation. The project focuses on simulation at different scales in…

In recent years, predicting driver's focus of attention has been a very active area of research in the autonomous driving community. Unfortunately, existing state-of-the-art techniques achieve this by relying only on human gaze information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Anwesan Pal , Sayan Mondal , Henrik I. Christensen

The CDF detector simulation framework is integrated into an AC++ application used to process events in the CDF experiment. The simulation framework is based on the GEANT3 package. It holds the detector element geometry descriptions, allows…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 E. Gerchtein , M. Paulini

Efficient CO2 capture is vital for mitigating climate change, with amine-based solvents being widely used due to their strong reactivity with CO2. However, optimizing key properties such as basicity, viscosity, and absorption capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hocheol Lim , Hyein Cho , Jeonghoon Kim

The GERmanium Detector Array, GERDA, searches for neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76 using bare high-purity germanium detectors submerged in liquid argon. For the calibration of these detectors gamma emitting sources have to be lowered…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-08-13 Laura Baudis , Alfredo D. Ferella , Francis Froborg , Michal Tarka

An infrastructure to characterize germanium detectors has been designed and constructed at the HADES Underground Research Laboratory, located in Mol (Belgium). Thanks to the 223m overburden of clay and sand, the muon flux is lowered by four…