celeritas-project / celeritas

Celeritas is a new Monte Carlo transport code designed to accelerate scientific discovery in high energy physics by improving detector simulation throughput and energy efficiency using GPUs.
https://celeritas-project.github.io/celeritas/
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Basic loop demo integration #54

Closed sethrj closed 3 years ago

sethrj commented 4 years ago

Propagate through a VecGeom geometry with multiple materials. Include at least one each of continuous and discrete processes. Compare simulation results and timing against Geant4.

Requirements:

Add the following kernels:

Missing pieces:

whokion commented 3 years ago

For a minimal set of EM processes for this multi-processes demo, Compton-Bremsstahlung-Ionization may be a good choice for simulating a self-contained (electron-gamma) cascade, which contains both discrete processes (all of them) and continuous energy loss processes (brem and ioni) with input of either photons or electrons: 1) starting from photons, it will undergo Compton (scattering and electron production) -> electron (energy loss by ionization, delta-ray by ioni and photon production by brem) -> repeat this cycle until both (primary and secondary) photons and secondary electrons reach to energy thresholds of processes, 2) starting with electrons, a similar cycle, but competing (brem+ioni) first followed by Compton and so on. It is a good demo with a complete simulation cycle for demonstrating performance measurements and basic validations if the total number of steps and tracks are statistically comparable to results from an equivalent Geant4 application.

sethrj commented 3 years ago

Rescoping this and calling it done, even though there's still clearly work to be had in the demo loop.