Speaker
Dr
Jon Balajthy
(UC Davis)
Description
The Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) is a comprehensive mostly-empirical standalone package for complete and accurate simulation of both the scintillation and ionization response of noble element detectors. For liquid xenon detectors, NEST includes models of recombination fluctuations and mean yields for nuclear recoils, electron recoils, Krypton-83m events, alphas, and heavy ions. Additionally, similar models for liquid argon detectors are currently in development. The current version of NEST (v.2.0) is accessible via an online calculator, a C++ based executable, as well as Python and Geant4 integrations. In this presentation, we give the current status of the ongoing updates to the NEST package and discuss unresolved discrepancies in world data.
Primary author
Dr
Jon Balajthy
(UC Davis)
Co-author
Mr
Matthew Szydagis
(University of Chicago)
