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Whether it is for shielding applications or for safety criticality studies, numerically solving the neutron transport equation with a good accuracy requires to precisely estimate the Doppler broadened elastic scattering kernel in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 M. Zmeškal , L. Thulliez , E. Dumonteil

A Generative-Adversarial Network (GAN) based on convolutional neural networks is used to simulate the production of pairs of jets at the LHC. The GAN is trained on events generated using MadGraph5 + Pythia8, and Delphes3 fast detector…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-09 Riccardo Di Sipio , Michele Faucci Giannelli , Sana Ketabchi Haghighat , Serena Palazzo

Thanks to their remarkable generative capabilities, GANs have gained great popularity, and are used abundantly in state-of-the-art methods and applications. In a GAN based model, a discriminator is trained to learn the real data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Firas Shama , Roey Mechrez , Alon Shoshan , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

The next generation of electron-positron colliders will require unprecedented precision in both theory and experiment. Sophisticated software frameworks are essential to evaluate detector concepts, optimize designs, and simulating physical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Alan Price , Dirk Zerwas

The event generator Sar$t$re has been used extensively for simulations of electron-ion collisions in preparation for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). Sar$t$re simulates exclusive diffraction in $e$A collisions, in principle for any nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Jaswant Singh , Tobias Toll

We report the result of a search for the rare decay B^0 -> gamma gamma in 426 fb-1 of data, corresponding to 226 million B^0 \bar{B}^0 pairs, collected on the Upsilon(4S) resonance at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider using the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-02-18 The BABAR Collaboration , P. del Amo Sanchez et al

We present a new machine learning-based Monte Carlo event generator using generative adversarial networks (GANs) that can be trained with calibrated detector simulations to construct a vertex-level event generator free of theoretical…

The pursuit of understanding fundamental particle interactions has reached unparalleled precision levels. Particle physics detectors play a crucial role in generating low-level object signatures that encode collision physics. However,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-21 Farzana Yasmin Ahmad , Vanamala Venkataswamy , Geoffrey Fox

A generator of antiproton ($\bar{p}$) in Geant4 has been developed using a theoretical model with the consideration of near-threshold treatment and used preliminarily in COMET experiment. The precision of this generator has been verified by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-27 Han Miao , Chen Wu , Hai-Bo Li

A new generation of experiments is being developed, where the challenge of separating rare signal processes from background at high intensities requires a change of trigger paradigm. At the future PANDA experiment at FAIR, hardware triggers…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-08 Jenny Taylor , Michael Papenbrock , Tobias Stockmanns , Ralf Kliemt , Tord Johansson , Adeel Akram , Karin Schönning

Purpose: To compare the accuracy with which different hadronic inelastic physics models across ten Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit versions can predict positron-emitting fragments produced along the beam path during carbon and oxygen…

With Geant4 Version 10.0, released in December 2013, one of the most widely used Monte-Carlo codes has been ported to take full advantage of multi- and many-core CPUs thanks to the introduction of event-level parallelism via multithreading.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Andrea Dotti , Makoto Asai , Guy Barrand , Ivana Hrivnacova , Koichi Murakami

The correlated production of Lambda and Lambdabar baryons has been studied using 4.3 million multihadronic Zo decays recorded with the OPAL detector at LEP. Di-lambda pairs were investigated in the full data sample and for the first time…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-07 The OPAL Collaboration , G. Abbiendi et al

The use of the Monte Carlo technique in a reliable and inexpensive way without the need for a standard radioactive source in determining the detector efficiency is becoming widespread every passing day. It is important to model the detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-18 Esra Uyar , Zeynep Aybüke Günekbay

Using generative adversarial networks (GANs), we investigate the possibility of creating large amounts of analysis-specific simulated LHC events at limited computing cost. This kind of generative model is analysis specific in the sense that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-17 Bobak Hashemi , Nick Amin , Kaustuv Datta , Dominick Olivito , Maurizio Pierini

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

An investigation is in progress to evaluate extensively and quantitatively the possible benefits and drawbacks of new programming paradigms in a Monte Carlo simulation environment, namely in the domain of physics modeling. The prototype…

Simulating event streams from 3D scenes has become a common practice in event-based vision research, as it meets the demand for large-scale, high temporal frequency data without setting up expensive hardware devices or undertaking extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhenyang Li , Xiaoyang Bai , Jinfan Lu , Pengfei Shen , Edmund Y. Lam , Yifan Peng

High Energy Physics (HEP) needs a huge amount of computing resources. In addition data acquisition, transfer, and analysis require a well developed infrastructure too. In order to prove new physics disciplines it is required to higher the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Gábor Bíró , Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi , Endre Futó

A central tracker based on silicon microstrip sensors has been envisaged for the e+e- linear collider experiments. A full simulation program based on GEANT4 has been developed to study performance of the tracker. We report some preliminary…

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