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Detailed radiation analysis of instruments flown in space is critical to ensure mission safety, often requiring the use of state-of-the-art particle transport simulation tools. Geant4 is one of the most powerful toolkits to simulate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-29 Marco Pinto , Patrícia Gonçalves

New computational tools are essential for accurate modeling and simulation of the next generation of muon-based accelerators. One of the crucial physics processes specific to muon accelerators that has not yet been simulated in detail is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 James Ellison , Pavel Snopok

This part of the conference proceeding provides a detailed overview of cutting-edge advancements in detector technologies, focusing on their optimization, characterization, and applications in particle physics experiments. Building on the…

This review focuses on the expected performance of the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), together with some of the highlights of the global commissioning work done in 2008 with basically fully operational…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-07-07 Daniel Froidevaux , Vasiliki A. Mitsou

The main results of the quality assurance tests performed on the Resistive Plate Chamber used by the ATLAS experiment at LHC as muon trigger chambers are reported and discussed. Since July 2004, about 270 RPC units has been certified at…

De-excitation $\gamma$ cascades from neutron captures form a dominant background to MeV-scale signals. The Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit is widely used to model backgrounds in nuclear and particle physics experiments. While its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Leo Weimer , Emma Ellingwood , Otis Fischer , Michela Lai , Shawn Westerdale

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC employs comprehensive data quality monitoring procedures to ensure high-quality physics data. This contribution presents a long short-term memory autoencoder-based algorithm for detecting anomalies in ATLAS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-09 Vilius Čepaitis

Hadron generation models are indispensable for the simulation and calibration of particle physics detectors. The models used by the Geant4 simulation tool kit are compared with inclusive spectra of secondary protons and pions from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-10-09 I. Boyko

Muon radiography often referred to as muography, is an imaging technique that uses freely available cosmic-ray muons to study the interior structure of natural or man-made large-scale objects. The amount of multidisciplinary applications of…

The field of experimental particle physics studies the fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. Frequently the experimental tools used to enable this study are accelerators and detectors. The Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-07-06 Heather M. Gray

We present results from a detailed GEANT4 simulation of a proposed Muon Tomography System that employs compact Micro Pattern Gas Detectors with high spatial resolution. A basic Point-Of-Closest-Approach algorithm is applied to reconstructed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Kondo Gnanvo , Patrick Ford , Jennifer Helsby , Richie Hoch , Debasis Mitra , Marcus Hohlmann

The capabilities of the ATLAS detector to measure the $B_{s}^{0}$ oscillations in proton-proton interactions at the Large Hadron Collider were evaluated. $B_{s}^{0}$ candidates in the $D_{s}^{-} \pi^{+}$ and $D_{s}^{-} a_{1}^{+}$ decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 B. Epp , V. M. Ghete , A. Nairz

At the LHC, new particles can be expected that decay to final states involving taus. Examples are given from simulations by the ATLAS experiment showing how such final states can be exploited.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ian Hinchliffe

Liquid argon detectors are ubiquitous in particle, astroparticle, and applied physics. They reached an unprecedented level of maturity thanks to more than 20 years of R&D and the operation of large-scale facilities at CERN, Fermilab, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-30 W. M. Bonivento , F. Terranova

Measurements of neutron-induced fission cross sections and light-ion production are planned in the energy range 1-40 MeV at the upcoming Neutrons For Science (NFS) facility. In order to prepare our detector setup for the neutron beam with…

NuSD: Neutrino Segmented Detector is a Geant4-based user application that simulates inverse beta decay event in a variety of segmented scintillation detectors developed by different international collaborations. This simulation framework…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-28 Mustafa Kandemir , Emrah Tiras , Vincent Fischer

Energetic primary cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere generate flux of secondary particles including neutrinos. Muon neutrinos passed through the Earth and produced muons via the charged current reaction can be registered by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-15 A. Guskov

Liquid argon time projection chambers (LArTPCs) are widely used in particle detection for their tracking and calorimetric capabilities. The particle physics community actively builds and improves high-quality simulators for such detectors…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-09-12 Sean Gasiorowski , Yifan Chen , Youssef Nashed , Pierre Granger , Camelia Mironov , Daniel Ratner , Kazuhiro Terao , Ka Vang Tsang

ATLAS is a multipurpose experiment at the LHC. The tracking system of ATLAS, embedded in a 2 T solenoidal field, is composed of different technologies: silicon planar sensors (pixel and microstrips) and drift-tubes. The procedure used to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Ana Ovcharova
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