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TRANSLATE -- A Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Transport in Liquid Argon
The microphysics of electron and photon propagation in liquid argon is a key
component of detector design and calibrations needed to construct and perform
measurements within a wide range of particle physics experiments. As
experiments grow in scale and complexity, and as the precision of their
intended measurements increases, the development of tools to investigate
important microphysics effects impacting such detectors becomes necessary. In
this paper we present a new time-domain Monte Carlo simulation of electron
transport in liquid argon. The simulation models the TRANSport in Liquid Argon
of near-Thermal Electrons (TRANSLATE) with the aim of providing a multi-purpose
software package for the study and optimization of detector environments, with
a particular focus on ongoing and next generation liquid argon neutrino
experiments utilizing the time projection chamber technology. TRANSLATE builds
on previous work of Wojcik and Tachiya, amongst others, introducing additional
cross-section processes up to ionization, thus modeling the full range of drift
electron scattering interactions. The simulation is validated by benchmarking
its performance with swarm parameters from data collected in experimental
setups operating in gas and liquid.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure