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We present an updated version of the {\it SimProp} Monte Carlo code to study the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays in astrophysical backgrounds computing the cosmogenic neutrino fluxes expected on earth. The study of secondary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-11 R. Aloisio , D. Boncioli , A. di Matteo , A. F. Grillo , S. Petrera , F. Salamida

The performance of a large-scale water Cherenkov neutrino telescope relies heavily on the transparency of the surrounding water, quantified by its level of light absorption and scattering. A pathfinder experiment was carried out to measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Fan Hu , Zhenyu Wei , Wei Tian , Ziping Ye , Fuyudi Zhang , Zhengyang Sun , Wei Zhi , Qichao Chang , Qiao Xue , Zhuo Li , Donglian Xu

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

Knowledge of atmospheric muon flux intensity at large depths is extremely important for neutrino telescopes located deep under ground, water or ice. One of the methods to transform muon sea-level spectrum into depth one is to apply Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Bugaev , I. A. Sokalski , S. I. Klimushin

Cosmic ray shower detection using large radio arrays has gained significant traction in recent years. With massive improvements in signal modelling and microscopic simulations, the analysis of incoming events is still severely limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pranav Sampathkumar , Tim Huege , Andreas Haungs , Ralph Engel

While transmission electron microscopes (TEM) can achieve a much higher resolution than optical microscopes, they face challenges of damage to samples during the high energy processes involved. Here, we explore using computational ghost…

Monte Carlo rendering of translucent objects with heterogeneous scattering properties is often expensive both in terms of memory and computation. If we do path tracing and use a high dynamic range lighting environment, the rendering becomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Thomson TG , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Henrik Wann Jensen

Random-walk Monte Carlo simulations are widely used to predict the optical properties of complex, disordered materials. In presence of large heterogeneities (e.g., spatially-extended nonscattering regions in a turbid environment), an…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-10 Loïc Tran , Benjamin Askenazi , Kevin Vynck

Neutrino transport and neutrino-matter interactions are known to play an important role in the evolution of neutron star mergers, and of their post-merger remnants. Neutrinos cool remnants, drive post-merger winds, and deposit energy in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Phillip Kovarik , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

In this work, the simulation of optical photons is carried out in an antineutrino detector module consisting of a plastic scintillator connected to light guides and photomultipliers on both ends, which is considered to be used for remote…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

Interactions between clouds and radiation are at the root of many difficulties in numerically predicting future weather and climate and in retrieving the state of the atmosphere from remote sensing observations. The large range of issues…

The event reconstruction in high energy neutrino telescopes is based on the expression of the time delay distribution of the detected photons propagating to some distance from their emission point through a uniform and scattering medium.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 George Japaridze , Mathieu Ribordy

We address the challenge of constructing a consistent and photorealistic Neural Radiance Field in inhomogeneously illuminated, scattering environments with unknown, co-moving light sources. While most existing works on underwater scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mengkun She , Felix Seegräber , David Nakath , Patricia Schöntag , Kevin Köser

A Monte Carlo simulation has been performed to track light rays in cylindrical multimode fibres by ray optics. The trapping efficiencies for skew and meridional rays in active fibres and distributions of characteristic quantities for all…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-26 Patrick Achenbach , John H Cobb

The transmission matrix (TM) is a representation to describe the light scattering process through a scattering medium. The degree of control elements in TM is correlated with the capacity of evaluating enormous equations with tremendous…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-25 Shu Guo , Hao Zhang , Wenxue Li , Lin Pang

It is likely that ultra-high energy cosmic rays contain a significant component of heavy or intermediate mass nuclei. The propagation of ultra-high energy nuclei through cosmic radiation backgrounds is more complicated than that of protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Dan Hooper , Subir Sarkar , Andrew M. Taylor

We study the question of whether coherent neutrino scattering can occur on macroscopic scales, leading to a significant increase of the detection cross section. We concentrate on radiative neutrino scattering on atomic electrons (or on free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Evgeny Akhmedov , Giorgio Arcadi , Manfred Lindner , Stefan Vogl