Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package
The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package using modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the KATRIN collaboration. Kassiopeia features a new algorithmic paradigm for particle tracking simulations which targets experiments containing compl...
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| author | Groh, Stefan Trost, Nikolaus Babutzka, Martin Barrett, John P Behrens, Jan Corona, Thomas Enomoto, Sanshiro Erhard, Moritz Glück, Ferenc Harms, Fabian Heizmann, Florian Hilk, Daniel Käfer, Wolfgang Kleesiek, Marco Leiber, Benjamin Mertens, Susanne Renschler, Pascal Schwarz, Johannes Slocum, Penny L Wandkowsky, Nancy Wierman, Kevin Zacher, Michael Furse, Daniel Lawrence Barrett, John Patrick Buzinsky, Nicholas Gregory Formaggio, Joseph A Solomon-Oblath, Noah |
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| author_facet | Haystack Observatory Groh, Stefan Trost, Nikolaus Babutzka, Martin Barrett, John P Behrens, Jan Corona, Thomas Enomoto, Sanshiro Erhard, Moritz Glück, Ferenc Harms, Fabian Heizmann, Florian Hilk, Daniel Käfer, Wolfgang Kleesiek, Marco Leiber, Benjamin Mertens, Susanne Renschler, Pascal Schwarz, Johannes Slocum, Penny L Wandkowsky, Nancy Wierman, Kevin Zacher, Michael Furse, Daniel Lawrence Barrett, John Patrick Buzinsky, Nicholas Gregory Formaggio, Joseph A Solomon-Oblath, Noah |
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| description | The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package using modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the KATRIN collaboration. Kassiopeia features a new algorithmic paradigm for particle tracking simulations which targets experiments containing complex geometries and electromagnetic fields, with high priority put on calculation efficiency, customizability, extensibility, and ease-of-use for novice programmers. To solve Kassiopeia's target physics problem the software is capable of simulating particle trajectories governed by arbitrarily complex differential equations of motion, continuous physics processes that may in part be modeled as terms perturbing that equation of motion, stochastic processes that occur in flight such as bulk scattering and decay, and stochastic surface processes occurring at interfaces, including transmission and reflection effects. This entire set of computations takes place against the backdrop of a rich geometry package which serves a variety of roles, including initialization of electromagnetic field simulations and the support of state-dependent algorithm-swapping and behavioral changes as a particle's state evolves. Thanks to the very general approach taken by Kassiopeia it can be used by other experiments facing similar challenges when calculating particle trajectories in electromagnetic fields. It is publicly available at https://github.com/KATRIN-Experiment/Kassiopeia. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1144702022-09-26T14:19:47Z Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package Groh, Stefan Trost, Nikolaus Babutzka, Martin Barrett, John P Behrens, Jan Corona, Thomas Enomoto, Sanshiro Erhard, Moritz Glück, Ferenc Harms, Fabian Heizmann, Florian Hilk, Daniel Käfer, Wolfgang Kleesiek, Marco Leiber, Benjamin Mertens, Susanne Renschler, Pascal Schwarz, Johannes Slocum, Penny L Wandkowsky, Nancy Wierman, Kevin Zacher, Michael Furse, Daniel Lawrence Barrett, John Patrick Buzinsky, Nicholas Gregory Formaggio, Joseph A Solomon-Oblath, Noah Haystack Observatory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Furse, Daniel Lawrence Barrett, John Patrick Buzinsky, Nicholas Gregory Formaggio, Joseph A Solomon-Oblath, Noah The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package using modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the KATRIN collaboration. Kassiopeia features a new algorithmic paradigm for particle tracking simulations which targets experiments containing complex geometries and electromagnetic fields, with high priority put on calculation efficiency, customizability, extensibility, and ease-of-use for novice programmers. To solve Kassiopeia's target physics problem the software is capable of simulating particle trajectories governed by arbitrarily complex differential equations of motion, continuous physics processes that may in part be modeled as terms perturbing that equation of motion, stochastic processes that occur in flight such as bulk scattering and decay, and stochastic surface processes occurring at interfaces, including transmission and reflection effects. This entire set of computations takes place against the backdrop of a rich geometry package which serves a variety of roles, including initialization of electromagnetic field simulations and the support of state-dependent algorithm-swapping and behavioral changes as a particle's state evolves. Thanks to the very general approach taken by Kassiopeia it can be used by other experiments facing similar challenges when calculating particle trajectories in electromagnetic fields. It is publicly available at https://github.com/KATRIN-Experiment/Kassiopeia. United States. Department of Energy. Office of Nuclear Physics (Award FG02-97ER41041) United States. Department of Energy. Office of Nuclear Physics (Award DE-FG02-06ER-41420) 2018-03-29T20:39:57Z 2018-03-29T20:39:57Z 2017-05 2017-02 2018-02-23T20:00:24Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1367-2630 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114470 Furse, Daniel, et al. “Kassiopeia: A Modern, Extensible C++ Particle Tracking Package.” New Journal of Physics, vol. 19, no. 5, May 2017, p. 053012. © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-0474 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9290-0764 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3757-9883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/AA6950 New Journal of Physics Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf IOP Publishing New Journal of Physics |
| spellingShingle | Groh, Stefan Trost, Nikolaus Babutzka, Martin Barrett, John P Behrens, Jan Corona, Thomas Enomoto, Sanshiro Erhard, Moritz Glück, Ferenc Harms, Fabian Heizmann, Florian Hilk, Daniel Käfer, Wolfgang Kleesiek, Marco Leiber, Benjamin Mertens, Susanne Renschler, Pascal Schwarz, Johannes Slocum, Penny L Wandkowsky, Nancy Wierman, Kevin Zacher, Michael Furse, Daniel Lawrence Barrett, John Patrick Buzinsky, Nicholas Gregory Formaggio, Joseph A Solomon-Oblath, Noah Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title | Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title_full | Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title_fullStr | Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title_short | Kassiopeia: a modern, extensible C++ particle tracking package |
| title_sort | kassiopeia a modern extensible c particle tracking package |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114470 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6091-0474 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9290-0764 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3757-9883 |
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