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Brightness is a critical metric for optimizing the design of neutron sources and beamlines, yet there is no direct way to calculate brightness within most Monte Carlo packages used for neutron source simulation. In this paper, we present…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-31 Mina Akhyani , Luca Zanini , Henrik Rønnow

Incoherent background can create an intrinsic problem for standard small angle neutron scattering measurements. Biological samples contain hydrogen which is a strong incoherent scatterer thus creating an intrinsic source of background that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-01-26 Earl Babcock , Alexander Ioffe , Zahir Salhi

The analysis of experimental results with Python often requires writing many code scripts which all need access to the same set of functions. In a common field of research, this set will be nearly the same for many users. The qspec Python…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Patrick Müller , Wilfried Nörtershäuser

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

The incoherent approximation (IA) is often used for calculating the one-phonon inelastic neutron scattering cross section for arbitrary solids. It is valid for thermal neutrons but for slow neutrons it requires a correction, which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Stefan Döge , Chen-Yu Liu , Albert Young , Christoph Morkel

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in materials discovery, enabling the rapid design of novel materials with tailored properties for countless applications, including in the context of energy and sustainability. To ensure the…

Realistic simulation of quantum materials is a central goal of quantum computation. Although quantum processors have advanced rapidly in scale and fidelity, it has remained unclear whether pre-fault-tolerant devices can perform…

The minimum spanning tree (MST), a graph constructed from a distribution of points, draws lines between pairs of points so that all points are linked in a single skeletal structure that contains no loops and has minimal total edge length.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-22 Krishna Naidoo

PyUnfold is a Python package for incorporating imperfections of the measurement process into a data analysis pipeline. In an ideal world, we would have access to the perfect detector: an apparatus that makes no error in measuring a desired…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-06-12 James Bourbeau , Zigfried Hampel-Arias

As in the available literature there are still misconceptions about powder diffraction phenomena observed for small nanocrystals ($D<10$ nm), we propose here a systematic and concise review of the involved issues that can be approached by…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-15 Zbigniew Kaszkur , Ilia Smirnov

HIPSTER (Heavily Ionising Particle Standard Toolkit for Event Recognition) is an open source Python package designed to facilitate the use of TensorFlow in a high energy physics analysis context. The core functionality of the software is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-18 Adrian Bevan , Thomas Charman , Jonathan Hays

Systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are important for ADSS applications. Ramsauer model is well known and widely applied to understand systematics of neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 S. V. Suryanarayana , H. Naik , S. Ganesan , S. Kailas , R. K. Choudhury , Guinyum Kim

New generation dark matter experiments aim at exploring the 10e-9 - 10e-10 pb cross-section region for the WIMP-nucleon scalar interactions. Neutrons produced in the detector components are one of the main factors that can limit detector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Tomasello , V. A. Kudryavtsev , M. Robinson

We present a new parton level Monte Carlo program for the calculation of jet cross sections in Deep Inelastic Scattering based on Born and next-to-leading order matrix elements. Using a class of invariant jet definition schemes, the program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 T. Brodkorb , E. Mirkes

We present NuMagSANS, a GPU-accelerated software package for calculating nuclear and magnetic small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) cross sections and correlation functions. The program allows users to import position-dependent nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-27 Michael P. Adams , Andreas Michels

A new package, DISPred, is described. The package can be used to calculate ep deep inelastic scattering cross sections at Born level in Electroweak theory and at both leading and next-to-leading order in QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-02 J. Ferrando

The freud Python package is a powerful library for analyzing simulation data. Written with modern simulation and data analysis workflows in mind, freud provides a Python interface to fast, parallelized C++ routines that run efficiently on…

We describe a method of white-beam inelastic neutron scattering for improved measurement efficiency. The method consists of matrix inversion and selective extraction. The former is to resolve each incident energy component from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Tomiyasu , M. Matsuura , H. Kimura , K. Iwasa , K. Ohoyama , T. Yokoo , S. Itoh , E. Kudoh , T. Sato , M. Fujita

The increasing availability of high-quality optical and near-infrared spectroscopic data, as well as advances in modelling techniques, have greatly expanded the scientific potential of spectroscopic studies. However, the software tools…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Daniele Gasparri , Lorenzo Morelli , Umberto Battino , Jairo Méndez Abreu , Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

Asteroseismology is an exceptional tool for studying stars by using the properties of observed modes of oscillation. So far the process of performing an asteroseismic analysis of a star has remained somewhat esoteric and inaccessible to…