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We report on the results of a Monte Carlo simulation study of a km^3 scale deep underwater Cherenkov detector aimed at detecting neutrinos of astrophysical origin. This analysis has been undertaken as part of the NEMO R&D project to develop…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 T. Montaruli , M. Ambriola et al

Our Galaxy is filled with cosmic-ray particles and more than 98% of them are atomic nuclei. In order to clarify their origin and acceleration mechanism, chemical composition measurements of these cosmic rays with wide energy coverage play…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Michiko Ohishi , Takanori Yoshikoshi , Tatsuo Yoshida

A new type of ring-imaging Cherenkov counter, called TOP counter, has been developed for particle identification at the Belle II experiment to run at the SuperKEKB accelerator in KEK, Japan. The detector consists of 16 identical modules…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Boqun Wang

We describe the Stagger Code for simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) systems. This is a modular code with a variety of physics modules that will let the user run simulations of deep stellar atmospheres, sunspot formation, stellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Robert F. Stein , Åke Nordlund , Remo Collet , Regner Trampedach

We report simulation results of pair production by ultra-intense lasers irradiating a gold target using the GEANT4 Monte-Carlo code. Certain experimental features of the positron and electron energy spectra are reproduced, as well as trends…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Alexander Henderson , Edison Liang , Pablo Yepes , Hui Chen , Scott Wilks

Monte Carlo methods provide detailed and accurate results for radiation transport simulations. Unfortunately, the high computational cost of these methods limits its usage in real-time applications. Moreover, existing computer codes do not…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 V. Giménez-Alventosa , V. Giménez Gómez , S. Oliver Gil

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have resulted in a breakthrough in very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astrophysics. While early IACT installations faced the problem of detecting any sources at all, current instruments are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Konrad Bernlohr

Several new radio facilities have a field of view and sensitivity well suited for transient searches. This makes it more important than ever to accurately determine transient rates in radio surveys. The work presented here seeks to do this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-05 Sarah I Chastain , Alexander J van der Horst , Dario Carbone

We discuss an alternative accurate Monte Carlo method to calculate the ground-state energy and related quantities for Laughlin states of the fractional quantum Hall effect in a disk geometry. This alternative approach allows us to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orion Ciftja , Carlos Wexler

We present a new implementation of the Monte Carlo method to simulate the evolution of star clusters. The major improvement with respect to the previously developed codes is the treatment of the external tidal field taking into account for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Sollima , A. Mastrobuono Battisti

Monte Carlo event generators are in a modern terminology the digital twins of collider-based particle physics experiment. We give an introduction into the application of MC generators for particle physics, discuss their different components…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Jürgen Reuter

We introduce a new Monte Carlo template-based reconstruction method for air shower arrays, with a focus on shower core and energy reconstruction of $\gamma$-ray induced air showers. The algorithm fits an observed lateral amplitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Vikas Joshi , Jim Hinton , Harm Schoorlemmer , Rubén López-Coto , Robert Parsons

In this work we report on the Monte Carlo study performed to understand and reproduce experimental measurements of a new plastic \b{eta}-detector with cylindrical geometry. Since energy deposition simulations differ from the experimental…

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic moments and transitions are reported for A <= 9 nuclei. The realistic Argonne v18 two-nucleon and Illinois-7 three-nucleon potentials are used to generate the nuclear wave functions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-22 S. Pastore , Steven C. Pieper , R. Schiavilla , R. B. Wiringa

For high precision measurements of K decays, the presence of radiated photons cannot be neglected. The Monte Carlo simulations must include the radiative corrections in order to compute the correct event counting and efficiency…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 C. Gatti

Imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) detect the Cherenkov light from extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays impinging on the Earth's atmosphere. Due to the overwhelming background from hadron induced…

The cooling storage ring external-target experiment is a large-scale nuclear physics experiment, which aims to study the physics of heavy-ion collisions at low temperatures and high baryon densities. A beam monitor (BM) is placed in the…

We use the Monte Carlo method to study the two types of devices used in the technique of single electron spectroscopy and get the C-V curve and I-V curve of them. The results compare well to approximate analytical expressions. Furthermore,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Sheng Wang

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlör , J. Bregeon , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , F. Di Pierro , M. Wood

In order to better utilize the information contained in the shower images generated by imaging Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) equipped with cameras with small pixels, images are fit to a parametrization of image shapes gained from Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ulrich , A. Daum , G. Hermann , W. Hofmann
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