STARDUST. A code for the simulation of particle tracks on arrays of sensitive volumes with substrate diffusion currents

Author

Rolland, G. ; da Silva, L. Pinheiro ; Inguimbert, C. ; David, J.P. ; Ecoffet, R. ; Auvergne, M.

Author_Institution

CNES, Toulouse, France

fYear

2007

fDate

10-14 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

This paper describes STARDUST, a new Monte Carlo code dedicated to the simulation of particle tracks on imaging detector arrays. The geometrical detector model, the particle parameters sampling method, the particle tracking and energy deposition and, finally, the carrier collection by diffusion currents in the substrate are described in detail. Some examples of simulations are given at the end, together with a comparison between COROT Satellite data and Simulation results.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; aerospace instrumentation; digital simulation; image sensors; sampling methods; Monte Carlo code; STARDUST; carrier collection; energy deposition; geometrical detector model; imaging detector arrays; particle parameters sampling method; particle tracking; particle tracks simulation; sensitive volumes; substrate diffusion currents; Detectors; Electrons; Mathematical model; Monte Carlo methods; Optical imaging; Particle tracking; Sampling methods; Satellites; Sensor arrays; Solid modeling; Electron Impacts; GCR impacts; Proton Impacts; Simulation; detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2007. RADECS 2007. 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Deauville

ISSN

0379-6566

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1704-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADECS.2007.5205506

Filename

5205506