Examples

Tutorials

First steps

• Simulating a drift tube: gas tables, analytic fields, Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg integration of drift lines, signals
• Simulating a GEM: finite element model, microscopic tracking of electrons
• Simulating a silicon sensor: user-parameterized fields, strip/pixel weighting fields, Monte Carlo integration of drift lines, signals
• Simulating a Resistive Plate Chamber

Primary ionization

• Simulating charged-particle tracks using Heed.
• Simulating ion tracks using tables computed with SRIM or the TRIM interface.

Transport properties

• Generating gas tables and dealing with gas files.
• Penning transfer.
• Cross-sections used by Magboltz.

Electric fields

• Computing electric fields in two-dimensional wire chambers.
• Importing finite-element field maps calculated using
  • Elmer and Gmsh,
  • ANSYS, for two-dimensional and three-dimensional problems,
  • COMSOL,
  • CST.
• Importing TCAD field maps.
• Computation of electric fields using the nearly exact Boundary Element Method (neBEM).

Signals

• Computing weighting potential/fields and induced currents.
• Modelling front-end electronics using delta response functions.

Applications

Micropattern gas detectors

• Movies of avalanches in a single GEM
• Movies of avalanches in a triple GEM
• Gain in a triple GEM
• Charging up of a GEM
• Photon detection with a Thick GEM
• Low energy pion detection with a Micromegas
• Interfacing with Geant4

Wire chambers

• Simulation of the ALICE TPC

Photons

• Electroluminescence

Gas properties

• Paschen curves
• Gas gain fluctuations in uniform fields