Transition Radiation Simulations Natalie Zimmer
Transition Radiation Only known way to distinguish between p, π, & k’s at extremely high energies p & k separation not good enough- currently about 1 in 10-2 p misidentified as k Need to improve by a factor of 100
CERN Experiment Very-forward direction experiment under way Need TR to identify secondary particles Have 8m to optimize photon production
GEANT4 Simulations So far have only been done on a very small scale Ideal simulations could take days to weeks to run HPC allows for reasonable runtimes