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The most commonly employed formalisms of radiative energy loss have been derived in the high- energy approximation. In its present form, it is reliable only for the medium modifications of inclusive particle spectra. Modifications to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Nestor Armesto , Leticia Cunqueiro , Carlos A. Salgado

We introduce the Quantization Monte Carlo method to solve thermal radiative transport equations with possibly several collision regimes, ranging from few collisions to massive number of collisions per time unit. For each particle in a given…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Laetitia Laguzet , Gabriel Turinici

Given the current landscape in experimental high-energy physics, these lectures are focused on applications of event generators for hadron colliders like the Tevatron and LHC. Section 2 contains a first overview of the physics picture and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-30 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

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

Indirect imaging problems in biomedical optics generally require repeated evaluation of forward models of radiative transport, for which Monte Carlo is accurate yet computationally costly. We develop a novel approach to reduce this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Callum M. Macdonald , Simon Arridge , Samuel Powell

We present a parameter retrieval method which combines ptychography and additional prior knowledge about the object. The proposed method is applied to two applications: (1) parameter retrieval of small particles from Fourier ptychographic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Xukang Wei , H. Paul Urbach , Peter van der Walle , Wim M. J. Coene

We discuss the present status of microscopic models for RHIC, with an emphasis on models being realized via the Monte Carlo technique. This review is to a large extent based on the OSCAR3 workshop, where general concepts and new trends in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Werner

Neutron Resonance Transmission Analysis (NRTA) uses resonant absorption of neutrons to infer the absolute isotopic composition of a target object, enabling applications in a broad range of fields such as archaeology, materials analysis of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Ezra M. Engel , Ethan A. Klein , Areg Danagoulian

A brief introduction to the statistical hadronization approach to particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is given. In the context of fluid dynamics modeling various aspects of hadron emission at the freeze-out are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Radoslaw Ryblewski

A Monte Carlo generator of the final state of hadrons emitted from an ultrarelativistic nuclear collision is introduced. An important feature of the generator is a possible fragmentation of the fireball and emission of the hadrons from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-02-10 Boris Tomasik

The purpose of this report is a study of the algebraic approach possibilities to reconstruct images. This approach is reduced to solution of the large system of linear algebraic equations. We also point out some possible further…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 E. E. Libin , S. V. Chakhlov , D. Trinca

Light transfer in gradient-index media generally follows curved ray trajectories, which will cause light beam to converge or diverge during transfer and induce the rotation of polarization ellipse even when the medium is transparent.…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-16 J. M. Zhao , J. Y. Tan , L. H. Liu

The radiative transfer equation models various physical processes ranging from plasma simulations to radiation therapy. In practice, these phenomena are often subject to uncertainties. Modeling and propagating these uncertainties requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chinmay Patwardhan , Pia Stammer , Emil Løvbak , Jonas Kusch , Sebastian Krumscheid

I outline methods for calculating the solution of Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) in scattering, absorption and emission processes of dust and gas, including polarization. I provide a bibliography of relevant papers on methods with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 Barbara A. Whitney

The radiative return, together with the energy scan, is the method used at flavour factories to measure the pion form factor, which is a crucial input for the data-driven dispersive computation of the leading-order hadronic contribution to…

Reaction rates are a complicated function of molecular interactions, which can be selected from vast chemical design spaces. Seeking the design that optimizes a rate is a particularly challenging problem since the rate calculation for any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-18 Alex Albaugh , Todd R. Gingrich

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

The construction of a Monte Carlo generator for high energy hadronic and nuclear collisions is discussed in detail. Interactions are treated in the framework of the Reggeon Field Theory, taking into consideration enhanced Pomeron diagrams…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Sergey Ostapchenko

Combinatorial optimization problems play crucial roles in real-world applications, and many studies from a physics perspective have contributed to specialized hardware for high-speed computation. However, some combinatorial optimization…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Tatsuya Naoi , Tatsuya Kishimoto , Jun Ohkubo

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