`nrCascadeSim` - A simulation tool for nuclear recoil cascades resulting from neutron capture
Abstract
Neutron capture-induced nuclear recoils have emerged as an important tool for detector calibrations in direct dark matter detection and coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE${\nu}$NS). $\texttt{nrCascadeSim}$ is a command-line tool for generating simulation data for energy deposits resulting from neutron capture on pure materials. Presently, silicon, germanium, neon, and argon are supported. While the software was developed for solid state detector calibration, it can be used for any application which requires simulated neutron capture-induced nuclear recoil data.
- Publication:
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The Journal of Open Source Software
- Pub Date:
- February 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2104.02742
- Bibcode:
- 2022JOSS....7.3993V
- Keywords:
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- Python;
- Nuclear Physics;
- Jupyter Notebook;
- C++;
- Simulation;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figure