First results ofab initiosimulations of scintillation detector characteristics

Next-Generation Perturbed Angular Correlation Spectroscopy

“…A first attempt of a Monte-Carlo simulation of whole scintillation detectors was made in cooperation with Arnold Krille from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and is described in Krille, Nagl, et al (2011). It implements a statistical approach for photon production similar to the one later on independently described by Seifert, Dam, and Schaart (2012) scintillation crystal for crystals with a size of more than about 1 cm 3 .…”

“…A Geant4 (Allison et al, 2006) based simulation of the light creation and propagation process was implemented based on the lessons learned during the previously published work (Krille, Nagl, et al, 2011). Since a sufficiently realistic statistical description of light creation processes, called photon counting statistics (Seifert, Dam, and Schaart, 2012), exists and parameterization of this approach is a matter of measurements rather than simulations with satisfactory data available from literature, a focus was set on the light propagation between the point of conversion of the primary γ photon into secondary visible photons and the photomultiplier tube's photo cathode.…”

“…The PMT simulation approach first implemented for Krille et al (2011) was reimplemented as an improved and more specialized standalone soware and is described in section 7.2. Task allocation among the developed detector simulation tools is shown in fig.…”

“…As described in this chapter's introduction, the simulation of light propagation in scintillation crystals introduced in the previous section was initially implemented as a refinement of a detector simulation approach focusing on signal formation in photomultiplier tubes. The first proof-of-concept implementation was based on the EPOS soware suite (Krille, 2011).…”