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We introduce a particle-number reprojection method in the shell model Monte Carlo that enables the calculation of observables for a series of nuclei using a Monte Carlo sampling for a single nucleus. The method is used to calculate nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Alhassid , S. Liu , H. Nakada

In this paper we present two efficient implementations of the diffusion approximation to be employed in Monte Carlo computations of radiative transfer in dusty media of massive circumstellar disks. The aim is to improve the accuracy of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Min , C. P. Dullemond , C. Dominik , A. de Koter , J. W. Hovenier

Transition probabilities governing the interaction of energy packets and matter are derived that allow Monte Carlo NLTE transfer codes to be constructed without simplifying the treatment of line formation. These probabilities are such that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. B. Lucy

Monte Carlo simulations have been performed in order to evaluate the efficiencies of several light ions identification techniques. The detection system was composed with layers of scintillating material to measure either the deposited…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-10-02 S. Salvador , M. Labalme , J. M. Fontbonne , J. Dudouet , J. Colin , D. Cussol

We discuss finite temperature quantum Monte Carlo methods in the framework of the interacting nuclear shell model. The methods are based on a representation of the imaginary-time many-body propagator as a superposition of one-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. Alhassid

In this work, we develop a novel Monte Carlo method for solving the electromagnetic scattering problem. The method is based on a formal solution of the scattering problem as a modified Born series whose coefficients are found by a conformal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hector Lopez-Menchon , Juan M. Rius , Alexander Heldring , Eduard Ubeda

Optical and near-IR (NIR) line profiles of many ageing core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) exhibit an apparently asymmetric bluewards shift often attributed to greater extinction by internal dust of redshifted radiation emitted from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Antonia Bevan

We present an extensive Monte Carlo study on light transport in optically thin slabs, addressing both axial and transverse propagation. We completely characterize the so-called ballistic-to-diffusive transition, notably in terms of the…

A kinetic Monte Carlo method was used to simulate the diffusion of reptating polymer chains across the interface. A time-resolved fluorescence technique conjunction with direct energy transfer method was used to measure the extend of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Erkan Tuzel , K. Batuhan Kisacikoglu , Onder Pekcan

In regimes of low signal strengths and therefore a small signal-to-noise ratio, standard data analysis methods often fail to accurately estimate system properties. We present a method based on Monte Carlo simulations to effectively restore…

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 consider the numerical solution of scalar, nonlinear degenerate convection-diffusion problems with random diffusion coefficient and with random flux functions. Building on recent results on the existence, uniqueness and continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-08 U. Koley , N. H. Risebro , Ch. Schwab , F. Weber

A simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the simulation of the passage of low-energy gamma rays and electrons through any material medium is presented. The algorithm includes several approximations that accelerate the simulation while…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Víctor Moya , Jaime Rosado , Fernando Arqueros

Monte Carlo methods play important part in modern statistical physics. The application of these methods suffer from two main difficulties.The first is caused by the relatively small number of particles that can participate in any numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brandt , V. Ilyin

Accurate knowledge of the response of the detection system is very crucial for unambiguous interpretation of the experimental data. A simulation code has been developed using the Monte Carlo technique involving 3-body kinematics for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-14 S. K. Pandit , K. Mahata , A. Shrivastava , V. V. Parkar , K. Ramachandran

A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Nima Ghal-eh , Mohammad Farhad Rahimi , Mehrnoush Manouchehri

We describe a code designed for hot media {(T $\ge$} a few 10$^4$ K), optically thick to Compton scattering. It computes the structure of a plane-parallel slab of gas in thermal and ionization equilibrium, illuminated on one side or on both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Anne-Marie Dumont , Suzy Collin

We study the spectra of photospheric emission from highly relativistic gamma-ray burst outflows using a Monte Carlo (MC) code. We consider the Comptonization of photons with a fast cooled synchrotron spectrum in a relativistic jet with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Mukul Bhattacharya , Wenbin Lu , Rodolfo Santana , Pawan Kumar

A revision of Stodolkiewicz's Monte-Carlo code is used to simulate evolution of star clusters. The new method treats each superstar as a single star and follows the evolution and motion of all individual stellar objects. The first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Mirek Giersz

In the framework of uncertainty quantification, we consider a quantity of interest which depends non-smoothly on the high-dimensional parameter representing the uncertainty. We show that, in this situation, the multilevel Monte Carlo…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Laura Scarabosio