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We present PDFFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of parton distribution functions (PDFs) designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. PDFs are essential for the calculation of particle physics observables through Monte Carlo…

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We present a highly scalable Monte Carlo (MC) three-dimensional photon transport simulation platform designed for heterogeneous computing systems. Through the development of a massively parallel MC algorithm using the Open Computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Leiming Yu , Fanny Nina-Paravecino , David Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

This paper updates and complements a previously published evaluation of computational methods for total and partial cross sections, relevant to modeling the photoelectric effect in Monte Carlo particle transport. It examines calculation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Tullio Basaglia , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco

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

A new Monte Carlo program for photohadronic interactions of relativistic nucleons with an ambient photon radiation field is presented. The event generator is designed to fulfil typical astrophysical requirements, but can also be used for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. Muecke , Ralph Engel , J. P. Rachen , R. J. Protheroe , Todor Stanev

Wrong Monte-Carlo computations are used to study the propagation of light in low pressure gas of nebulae. We recall that the incoherent interactions required for Monte Carlo calculations and hindering coherent interactions are due to…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 Jacques Moret-Bailly

In-bulk processing of materials by laser radiation has largely evolved over the last decades and still opensup new scientific and industrial potentials. The development of any in-bulk processing application relieson the knowledge of laser…

We present a Monte Carlo simulation for the scattering of light in the case of an isotropic light source. The scattering phase functions are studied particularly in detail to understand how they can affect the multiple light scattering in…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. Colombi , K. Louedec

Many optimization techniques have been invented to reduce the noise that is inherent in Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations. As the typical detectors used in Monte Carlo simulations do not take into account all the information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maarten Baes

We present a method which extends Monte Carlo studies to situations that require a large dynamic range in particle number. The underlying idea is that, in order to calculate the collisional evolution of a system, some particle interactions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. W. Ormel , M. Spaans

Optical photon propagation is an embarrassingly parallel operation, well suited to acceleration on GPU devices. Rendering of images employs similar techniques -- for this reason, a pipeline to offload optical photon propagation from Geant4…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Adam C. S. Davis , Sacha Barré , Yangyang Cui , Keith L Evans , Marco Gersabeck , Antonin Rat , Zahra Montazeri

We present an updated version of the SimProp Monte Carlo code: a simulation scheme to study the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through diffuse extragalactic background radiation. The new version of the code presents two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-07 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

Radiative transfer describes the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an interacting medium. This process is often simulated by the use of the Monte Carlo method, which involves the probabilistic determination and tracking of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 A. Krieger , S. Wolf

High-energy physics simulations traditionally rely on classical Monte Carlo methods to model complex particle interactions, often incurring significant computational costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum-enhanced simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Euimin Lee , Sangmin Lee , Shiho Kim

We present a new Monte Carlo method for obtaining solutions of the Boltzmann equation for describing phonon transport in micro and nanoscale devices. The proposed method can resolve arbitrarily small signals (e.g. temperature differences)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jean-Philippe Peraud , Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou

The status of Monte Carlo system for the simulation of tau-lepton production and decay in high-energy accelerator experiments is reviewed. Since previous tau-lepton conference in 2008 some practical modifications have been introduced: (i)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Zbigniew Was

This work presents an approach to improve the precision of polarized photon-photon collisions simulation implemented in the SANCphot package. The basic linear Compton approximation of the incoming photon spectrum is extended to a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Sergey G. Bondarenko , Aidos Issadykov , Lidia V. Kalinovskaya , Andrey A. Sapronov

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak

Resonant lines are powerful probes of the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Their transfer in gas being a complex process, the interpretation of their observational signatures, either in absorption or in emission, is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Leo Michel-Dansac , Jeremy Blaizot , Thibault Garel , Anne Verhamme , Taysun Kimm , Maxime Trebitsch

Goupil is a software library designed for the Monte Carlo transport of low-energy gamma-rays, such as those emitted from radioactive isotopes. The library is distributed as a Python module. It implements a dedicated backward sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Valentin Niess , Kinson Vernet , Luca Terray