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In light of the recent advancements in machine learning, we propose a novel approach to neutron source distribution estimation through the utilisation of probabilistic generative models. The estimation is based on a Monte Carlo particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-13 Jose Ignacio Robledo , Norberto Schmidt , Klaus Lieutenant , Jingjing Li , Stefan Kesselheim , Paul Zakalek

We describe an assembly of numerical tools to model the output data of the Planck satellite. These start with the generation of a CMB sky in a chosen cosmology, add in various foreground sources, convolve the sky signal with arbitrary, even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Martin Reinecke , Klaus Dolag , Reinhard Hell , Matthias Bartelmann , Torsten Ensslin

The correctness and precision of particle physics simulation software, such as Geant4, is expected to yield results that closely align with real-world observations or well-established theoretical predictions. Notably, the accuracy of these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Angel Bueno Rodriguez , Felix Sattler , Maximilian Perez Prada , Maurice Stephan , Sarah Barnes

The crucial role that Ions Energy Distribution Function (IEDF) at the electrodes plays in plasma processing of semiconductor materials demands that this quantity be predicted with high accuracy and with low noise levels in any plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ardehali

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

A general purpose, self-adapting, Monte Carlo (MC) event generator (simulator) is described. The high efficiency of the MC, that is small maximum weight or variance of the MC weight is achieved by means of dividing the integration domain…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Jadach

A radiographic setup for an investigation of fast dynamic processes with areal density of targets up to 5 g/cm$^2$ is under development on the basis of high-current proton linear accelerator at the Institute for Nuclear Research (Troitsk,…

The Generic Geant4 Simulation (GGS) is a package designed to speed-up the realization and deployment of Monte Carlo simulation software based on Geant4, for small- and medium-sized high-energy experiments. For many common use cases, the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-04-22 Nicola Mori

A comprehensive analysis of the effects of Geant4 algorithms for condensed transport in detectors is in progress. The first phase of the project focuses on electron multiple scattering, and studies two related observables: the longitudinal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Batic , G. Hoff , M. G. Pia

The bremsstrahlung spectra produced by electrons impinging on thick targets are simulated using the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit. Simulations are validated against experimental data available in literature for a range of energy between 0.5…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Luciano Pandola , Claudio Andenna , Barbara Caccia

Quasi-monochromatic, high energy and highly polarized $\gamma$-ray beam sources based on Compton scattering of laser photons (LCS) on relativistic electrons have developed for the last few decades as established instruments for nuclear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-11 Dan Filipescu

A phonon and charge transport simulation based on the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit is presented. The transport code is capable of propagating acoustic phonons, electrons and holes in cryogenic crystals. Anisotropic phonon propagation, oblique…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-21 D. Brandt , R. Agnese , P. Redl , K. Schneck , M. Asai , M. Kelsey , D. Faiez , E. Bagli , B. Cabrera , R. Partridge , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet

Backscattering is a sensitive probe of the accuracy of electron scattering algorithms implemented in Monte Carlo codes. The capability of the Geant4 toolkit to describe realistically the fraction of electrons backscattered from a target…

Geant4 low energy extensions have been used to simulate the X-ray spectra of industrial X-ray tubes with filters for removing the uncertain low energy part of the spectrum in a controlled way. The results are compared with precisely…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Guthoff , O. Brovchenko , W. de Boer , A. Dierlamm , T. Müller , A. Ritter , M. Schmanau , H. -J. Simonis

We benchmark various available event generators in Geant4 and EGS5 in the light of ongoing projects for high angular-resolution pair-conversion telescopes. We compare the distributions of key kinematic variables extracted from the geometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-20 Philippe Gros , Denis Bernard

The transport of neutrons in long beamlines at spallation neutron sources presents a unique challenge for Monte-Carlo transport calculations. This is due to the need to accurately model the deep-penetration of high-energy neutrons through…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-07 Douglas D. DiJulio , Isak Svensson , Xiao Xiao Cai , Joakim Cederkall , Phillip M. Bentley

The Geant4 toolkit offers a rich variety of electromagnetic physics models; so far the evaluation of this Geant4 domain has been mostly focused on its physics functionality, while the features of its design and their impact on simulation…

We evaluate the performance of an Omnivision OV5647 CMOS image sensor (5 Mp) for detecting radiation from Sr90 and Cs137 sources. Our experimental setup uses a Raspberry Pi 3 mini-computer for data acquisition, with image processing using…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 M. Bonnett Del Alamo , R. Helaconde , C. Soncco , J. Bazo , A. M. Gago

The Geant4 toolkit is used extensively in high energy physics to simulate the passage of particles through matter and to predict effects such as detector efficiencies and smearing. Geant4 uses many underlying models to predict particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 V. Elvira , L. Fields , K. L. Genser , R. Hatcher , V. Ivanchenko , M. Kelsey , T. Koi , G. N. Perdue , A. Ribon , V. Uzhinsky , D. H. Wright , J. Yarba , S. Y. Jun

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