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View article: Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer undergoing treatment supported by feedback auditing: the EPIC study
Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer undergoing treatment supported by feedback auditing: the EPIC study Open
Background: Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) offer an objective measure of the patient experience by investigating various fields of the care pathway. We analyzed PREMs in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) under…
View article: Results of a Geant4 benchmarking study for bio‐medical applications, performed with the G4‐Med system
Results of a Geant4 benchmarking study for bio‐medical applications, performed with the G4‐Med system Open
Background Geant4, a Monte Carlo Simulation Toolkit extensively used in bio‐medical physics, is in continuous evolution to include newest research findings to improve its accuracy and to respond to the evolving needs of a very diverse user…
View article: Simulation of orientational coherent effects via Geant4
Simulation of orientational coherent effects via Geant4 Open
Simulation of orientational coherent effects via Geant4 beam manipulation of high-and very-high-energy particle beams is a hot topic in accelerator physics. Coherent effects of ultra-relativistic particles in bent crystals allow the steeri…
View article: Multi-threaded ATLAS simulation on Intel Knights Landing processors
Multi-threaded ATLAS simulation on Intel Knights Landing processors Open
The Knights Landing (KNL) release of the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) Xeon Phi line of processors is a potential game changer for HEP computing. With 72 cores and deep vector registers, the KNL cards promise significant performance ben…
View article: Software aspects of the Geant4 validation repository
Software aspects of the Geant4 validation repository Open
The Geant4, GeantV and GENIE collaborations regularly perform validation and regression tests for simulation results. DoSSiER (Database of Scientic Simulation and Experimental Results) is being developed as a central repository to store th…
View article: DoSSiER: Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results
DoSSiER: Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results Open
The Geant4, GeantV and GENIE collaborations regularly perform validation and regression tests for simulation results. DoSSiER (Database of Scientific Simulation and Experimental Results) is being developed as a central repository to store …
View article: Managing Asynchronous Data in ATLAS's Concurrent Framework
Managing Asynchronous Data in ATLAS's Concurrent Framework Open
In order to be able to make effective use of emerging hardware, where the amount of memory available to any CPU is rapidly decreasing as the core count continues to rise, ATLAS has begun a migration to a concurrent, multi-threaded software…
View article: The Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during the LHC run 1
The Laser calibration of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during the LHC run 1 Open
This article describes the Laser calibration system of the ATLAS hadronic Tile Calorimeter that has been used during the run 1 of the LHC . First, the stability of the system associated readout electronics is studied. It is found to be sta…
View article: Multi-threaded software framework development for the ATLAS experiment
Multi-threaded software framework development for the ATLAS experiment Open
ATLAS's current software framework, Gaudi/Athena, has been very successful for the experiment in LHC Runs 1 and 2. However, its single threaded design has been recognised for some time to be increasingly problematic as CPUs have increased …
View article: Hadron shower decomposition in the highly granular CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter
Hadron shower decomposition in the highly granular CALICE analogue hadron calorimeter Open
The spatial development of hadronic showers in the CALICE scintillator-steel analogue hadron calorimeter is studied using test beam data collected at CERN and FNAL for single positive pions and protons with initial momenta in the range fro…
View article: DHCAL with minimal absorber: measurements with positrons
DHCAL with minimal absorber: measurements with positrons Open
In special tests, the active layers of the CALICE Digital Hadron Calorimeter prototype, the DHCAL, were exposed to low energy particle beams, without being interleaved by absorber plates. The thickness of each layer corresponded approximat…
View article: Extending Geant4 Parallelism with External Libraries (MPI, TBB) and Its Use on HPC Resources
Extending Geant4 Parallelism with External Libraries (MPI, TBB) and Its Use on HPC Resources Open
With Geant4 Version 10.0, released in December 2013, one of the most widely used Monte-Carlo codes has been ported to take full advantage of multi- and many-core CPUs thanks to the introduction of event-level parallelism via multithreading…
View article: The Geant4 physics validation repository
The Geant4 physics validation repository Open
The Geant4 collaboration regularly performs validation and regression tests. The results are stored in a central repository and can be easily accessed via a web application. In this article we describe the Geant4 physics validation reposit…
View article: Geant4 Computing Performance Benchmarking and Monitoring
Geant4 Computing Performance Benchmarking and Monitoring Open
Performance evaluation and analysis of large scale computing applications is essential for optimal use of resources. As detector simulation is one of the most compute intensive tasks and Geant4 is the simulation toolkit most widely used in…
View article: Multi-threaded Geant4 on the Xeon-Phi with complex high-energy physics geometry
Multi-threaded Geant4 on the Xeon-Phi with complex high-energy physics geometry Open
To study the performance of multi-threaded Geant4 for high-energy physics experiments, an application has been developed which generalizes and extends previous work. A highly-complex detector geometry is used for benchmarking on an Intel X…