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A new algorithm for implementing the adaptive Monte Carlo method is given. It is used to solve the relativistic Boltzmann equations that describe the time evolution of a nonequilibrium electron-positron pair plasma containing high-energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ravi P. Pilla , Jacob Shaham

Compton scattering between electrons and photons plays a crucial role in astrophysical plasmas. Many important aspects of this process can be captured by using the so-called Compton scattering kernel. For isotropic media, exact analytic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-03 Abir Sarkar , Jens Chluba , Elizabeth Lee

Emission from X-ray binaries in the hard spectral state is dominated by high-energy radiation attributed to the Compton scattering of seed photons. The prevalent model of the Comptonization by hot electrons or pairs faces the problem of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 John Groger , Kun Hu , Henric Krawczynski

Compton scattering of a laser beam with a relativistic electron beam has been used to generate intense, highly polarized and nearly monoenergetic x-ray or gamma-ray beams at many facilities. The ability to predict the spatial, spectral and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Changchun Sun , Ying K. Wu

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

Biological tissues are complex structures composed of many elements which make light-based tissue diagnostics challenging. Over the past decades, Monte Carlo technique has been used as a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Maryam Ghahremani

We derive analytical expressions to describe how light is frequency-shifted when interacting with ultrasound within scattering media, due to the modulation of the refractive index induced by the ultrasound pressure waves. The model is…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-16 Adam Kinos

We present a detailed method to simulating sensor distortions using a photon and electron Monte Carlo method. We use three dimensional electrostatic simulations to parameterize the perturbed electric field profile for non-ideal sensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 J. R. Peterson , P. O'Connor , A. Nomerotski , E. Magnier , J. G. Jernigan , J. Cheng , W. Cui , E. Peng , A. Rasmussen , G. Sembroski

We consider the radiative transfer problem in a plane-parallel slab of thermal electrons in the presence of an overcritical magnetic field. Under such conditions, the magnetic field behaves as a birefringent medium for the propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 C. Ceccobello , R. Farinelli , L. Titarchuk

We present a Monte Carlo simulation for the scattering of light in the case of an isotropic light source. The scattering phase functions are studied particularly in detail to understand how they can affect the multiple light scattering in…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-15 J. Colombi , K. Louedec

One native source of quality deterioration in medical imaging, and especially in our case optical coherence tomography (OCT), is the turbid biological media in which photon does not take a predictable path and many scattering events would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-26 Ali Alavi

We present a numerical method and computer code to calculate the radiative transfer and excitation of molecular lines. Formulating the Monte Carlo method from the viewpoint of cells rather than photons allows us to separate local and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michiel R. Hogerheijde , Floris F. S. van der Tak

Compton scattering of photons by nonrelativistic particles is thought to play an important role in forming the radiation spectrum of many astrophysical systems. Here we derive the time-dependent photon kinetic equation that describes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dimitrios Psaltis , Frederick K. Lamb

To maximize the accuracy of background simulation and event reconstruction, high-energy neutrino telescopes require detailed knowledge of light propagation over a large volume of detection medium. If light scattering and absorption leng ths…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Predrag Miocinovic , Peter Niessen

Induced Compton scattering (ICS) is an interaction between intense electro-magnetic radiations and plasmas, where ICS transfers the energy from photons to plasmas. Although ICS is important for laser plasma interactions in laboratory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 Shuta J. Tanaka , Katsuaki Asano , Toshio Terasawa

High energies emissions observed in X-ray binaries (XRBs), active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are linearly polarized. The prominent mechanism for X-ray is the Comptonization process. We revisit the theory for polarization in Compton scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-25 Nagendra Kumar

Complex soft matter systems can be efficiently studied with the help of adaptive resolution simulation methods, concurrently employing two levels of resolution in different regions of the simulation domain. The non-matching properties of…

We develop a simple, time-dependent Comptonization model to probe the origins of spectral variability in accreting neutron star systems. In the model, soft ``seed photons'' are injected into a corona of hot electrons, where they are Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hyong C. Lee , Guy S. Miller

In this work we present a novel 3D Monte Carlo photon transport program for simulation of multiple refractive scattering based on the refractive properties of X-rays in highly scattering media, like lung tissue. Multiple scattering reduces…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 A. N. Khromova , L. Rigon , F. Arfelli , R. H. Menk , H. J. Besch , H. Plothow-Besch

Compton scattering is a key process shaping spectra formation and accretion flow dynamics in accreting strongly magnetized neutron stars. A strong magnetic field affects the scattering cross section and makes it dependent on photon energy,…