A Generic Surface Sampler for Monte Carlo Simulations

@misc{citeulike:2415669, abstract = {We present an implementation of a Monte Carlo algorithm that generates points randomly and uniformly on a set of arbitrary surfaces. The algorithm is completely general and only requires the geometry modeling software to provide the intersection points of an arbitrary line with the surface being sampled. We demonstrate the algorithm using the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit. The efficiency of the sampling algorithm is discussed, along with various options in the implementation and example applications.}, author = {Detwiler, J. A. and Henning, R. and Johnson, R. A. and Marino, M. G. }, citeulike-article-id = {2415669}, eprint = {0802.2960}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2008-02-25 21:22:29}, priority = {1}, title = {A Generic Surface Sampler for Monte Carlo Simulations}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2960}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2415669 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2415669 TI - A Generic Surface Sampler for Monte Carlo Simulations N2 - We present an implementation of a Monte Carlo algorithm that generates points randomly and uniformly on a set of arbitrary surfaces. The algorithm is completely general and only requires the geometry modeling software to provide the intersection points of an arbitrary line with the surface being sampled. We demonstrate the algorithm using the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation toolkit. The efficiency of the sampling algorithm is discussed, along with various options in the implementation and example applications. AU - Detwiler, JA AU - Henning, R AU - Johnson, RA AU - Marino, MG PY - 2008/Feb/20/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2960 ER -