Performance of an optical TPC Geant4 simulation with opticks GPU-accelerated photon propagation
Abstract We investigate the performance of , a 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation tool compared with a single-threaded simulation. We compare the simulations using an improved model of the gaseous time projection chamber. Performance results suggest that improves simulation speeds by between $$58.47\pm {0.02}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>58.47</mml:mn> <mml:mo>±</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>0.02</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> and $$181.39\pm {0.28}$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>181.39</mml:mn> <mml:mo>±</mml:mo> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>0.28</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> times relative to a CPU-only simulation and these results vary between different types of GPU and CPU. A detailed comparison shows that the number of detected photons, along with their times and wavelengths, are in good agreement between and .
Authors
- A. P. Marques (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3220-3035)
- C. Hervés Carrete (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-3328)
- C. Romo-Luque (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-056X)
- Zoraida Freixa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2044-2725)
- Frank W. Foss (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1940-6580)
- T. Contreras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-1254)
- C.A.N. Conde (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1387-2161)
- F. Kellerer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-5973)
- Y. Ifergan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6876-8089)
- A. Bayo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6469-0667)
- Fernando Auria‐Luna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3726-0493)
- P. Ferrario (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4244-2483)
- Eva Oblak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9962-1151)
- D. R. Nygren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-8458)
- F.I.G.M. Borges (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-173X)
- V. Herrero (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0860-2789)
- Claire Tonnelé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0791-8239)
- Francisco J. Samaniego
- J. Martín-Albo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7318-1469)
- J. Torrent
- S. Torelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3622-3524)
- C. Rogero
- Fernando P. Cossío (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4526-2122)
- M. Sorel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-9508)
- E. Dey
- P. A. O. C. Silva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1957-2274)
- Francisco Ballester-Merelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2464-5116)
- K. Stogsdill
- B. J. P. Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-8986)
- J. Renner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-2015)
- L. Larizgoitia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4356-5856)
- J. F. Toledo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9782-4510)
- M. Martínez-Vara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4942-7405)
- K. Mistry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7533-7482)
- J. Baeza-Rubio
- A. I. Aranburu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0373-4662)
- S. Cárcel
- Itay Shomroni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9947-5502)
- Ariadna Pazos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6074-6213)
- F. Monrabal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4047-5620)
- R. Guénette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3967-0151)
- L. Arazi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7624-5827)
- R. Madigan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0256-052X)
- Alexander Trettin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0350-3597)
- F. López Gejo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2763-4719)
- J. Molina-Canteras (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9953-1132)
- J.J. Gómez-Cadenas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8224-7714)
- B. Palmeiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5878-650X)
- A. Larumbe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0249-8899)
- I. J. Arnquist (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5643-8330)
- J. W. R. Grocott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1784-5766)
- I. Parmaksiz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1478-3977)
- I. A. Moya
- J.F.C.A. Veloso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7107-7203)
- C.D.R. Azevedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-9918)
- M. Querol
- P. Novella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0923-3172)
- R. Miller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4825-5535)
- K. E. Navarro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0971-5559)
- G. Díaz
- E. Church (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0155-5812)
- G. Martínez-Lema (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1742-3531)
- P. Herrero-Gómez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-7779)
- S. Ayet (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0053-1691)
- M. Pérez Maneiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5724-280X)
- B. Romeo
- L. Rogers
- J. Soto-Oton
- R. Felkai
- N. Byrnes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3303-5360)
- R. D. P. Mano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2920-7067)
- P. Oyedele
- A. L. Ferreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8696-3590)
- J. Escada
- A. Para
- B. Aparicio
- J.M.F. dos Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8841-6523)
- C. Adams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1327-0726)
- J. Pelegrìn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7589-5940)
- J. Waiton
- C. M. B. Monteiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1912-2804)
- C. A. O. Henriques (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-181X)
- J. M. R. Teixeira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-5715)
- L. M. P. Fernandes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7061-8768)
- R. Esteve (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1289-6938)
- S. Teruel-Pardo
- Laura Cid-Barrio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5426-8115)
- J. M. Hauptman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-0516)
- V. Álvarez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6938-8259)
- M. Elorza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2478-102X)
- F. P. Santos
- I. Rivilla
- J. Palacio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0374-100X)
- H. Almazán (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1772-2598)
- Carlos Echevarria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6916-8862)
- A. Castillo
- M. del Barrio-Torregrosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7036-6476)
- A. Brodolin
- A. Yubero-Navarro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0028-1979)
- J. García-Barrena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1053-8324)
- J. A. Hernando Morata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8683-5142)
- P. Lebrun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8876-9217)
- S. R. Soleti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-1414)
- J. Asaadi
- F. J. Mora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2281-9546)
- A. Simón
- A. Nuñez
- P. R. G. Valle
- J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-4804)
- K. Bailey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3773-5954)
- A. Usón
- M. Seemann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9813-7305)
- N. López-March (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6586-0675)
- R. Coupe
- V. San Nacienciano
Institutions
- Ikerbasque (ES)
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- Argonne National Laboratory (US)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- The University of Texas at El Paso (US)
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Iowa State University (US)
- The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Universitat de Girona (ES)
- Harvard University Press (US)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Yale University (US)
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (ES)
- Canfranc Underground Laboratory (ES)
- Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (ES)
- Servicio Gallego de Salud (ES)
- IMS Nanofabrication (Austria) (AT)
- Donostia International Physics Center (ES)
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University of Aveiro (PT)
- University of Coimbra (PT)
- Manchester University (US)
- SPX Corporation (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The European Physical Journal C
- Published
- 2025-08-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14612-0
- Primary Topic
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- “la Caixa” Foundation
- European Commission
- Eusko Jaurlaritza
- Generalitat Valenciana
- Israel Science Foundation
- PAZY Foundation
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
- European Regional Development Fund
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- Division of Chemistry
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Fermilab