A generic surface sampler for Monte Carlo simulations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2329-2333

  Detwiler, J A ^a   Henning, R ^a,b   Johnson, R A ^c   Marino, M G ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Alpha particles; GEANT; Imaging; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SAMPLING;

ALGORITHMS; ALPHA PARTICLES; GEANT; IMAGING; SIMULATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 53449093879     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2001063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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