Simulation of detector and/or detecting material
Software packages
For a nice overview look at the
Indico page of an RD51 simulation workshop.
neBEM - nearly exact Boundary Element Method
Computes the electric field and potential in nearly arbitrary 3-dimensional geometries taking the presence of conductors and dielectric media into account:
official website
Alternative to a Finite Element Method (FEM) tool like ANSYS where Poisson's equations can't be solved in a strict mathematical way.
ANSYS
FEM calculation tool to e.g. calculate electric field maps.
Garfield/Garfield++
Garfield and
Garfield++, the C++ portation.
Magboltz
Calculates the gas properties used by Garfield simulations:
official website
GEANT4
Simulates particle interactions in a detector (with custom geometry and materials):
official website
- These introductory slides from an MC-PAD training event on GEANT4 at DESY give a good introduction.
- There is a way to use the GEANT4 libraries within a Python environment: g4py. These two slides describe the functionality of this binding.
NEST - Noble Element Simulation Technique
Addition to GEANT4 to correct calculations on interactions in noble gases (also in liquid phase), especially at low energies:
official website
Detector simulations in the Detector R&D group
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RolfS - 2014-10-03