optics: General-purpose scintillator light response simulation code

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00193-4MaRDI QIDQ5934202zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Frlež, B. K. Wright, D. Počanić

Publication date 28 November 2001

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0006033

computed tomography Monte Carlo simulation scintillation particle detector

Technical applications of optics and electromagnetic theory (78A55) Basic methods for problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M99)

Abstract: We present the program optics that simulates the light response of an arbitrarily shaped scintillation particle detector. Predicted light responses of pure CsI polygonal detectors, plastic scintillator staves, cylindrical plastic target scintillators and a Plexiglas light-distribution plate are illustrated. We demonstrate how different bulk and surface optical properties of a scintillator lead to specific volume and temporal light collection probability distributions. High-statistics optics simulations are calibrated against the detector responses measured in a custom-made cosmic muon tomography apparatus. The presented code can also be used to track particles intersecting complex geometrical objects.

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