Monte Carlo radiation transport modelling of the current-biased kinetic inductance detector

Modelling Radiation Transport in Voxel Geometries with the Monte Carlo Code Mcnpx

Numerical methods for the simulation of radiation transport, in particular Monte Carlo techniques, are playing a fundamental role in the field of dosimetry for radiation protection. For the last 30 years or so, reference quantities have been since about 30 years calculated relying on mathematical analytical human phantoms representative of the standard man. These calculations, in large part bas...

A performance study of the conceptual implementation of the GEM-tracking detector in Monte Carlo simulation

  PANDA experiment (antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt) is one of the key projects of the future FAIR facilities to investigate the reactions of antiprotons with protons and nuclear targets.   experiment is designed to serve as a completely extraordinary physical potential due to exploiting the availability of cold and high-intensity beams of antiprotons. One of the significant parts of the  ...

Comparison of Monte Carlo Methods for Nonlinear Radiation Transport

Five Monte Carlo methods for solving the nonlinear thermal radiation transport equations are compared. The methods include the well-known Implicit Monte Carlo method (IMC) developed by Fleck and Cummings, an alternative to IMC developed by Carter and Forest, an “exact” method recently developed by Ahrens and Larsen, and two methods recently proposed by Martin and Brown. The five Monte Carlo met...

Monte Carlo and kinetic Monte Carlo methods – a tutorial

This article reviews the basic computational techniques for carrying out multiscale simulations using statistical methods, with the focus on simulations of epitaxial growth. First, the statistical-physics background behind Monte Carlo simulations is briefly described. The kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) method is introduced as an extension of the more wide-spread thermodynamic Monte Carlo methods, an...

Biased Monte Carlo optimization of protein sequences