Calculations of pair production by Monte Carlo methods
C.J.F. Böttcher, Michael R. Strayer · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1991
We describe some of the technical design issues associated with the production of particle-antiparticle pairs in very large accelerators. To answer these questions requires extensive calculation of Feynman diagrams, in effect multi-dimensional integrals, which we evaluate by Monte Carlo methods on a variety of supercomputers. We present some portable algorithms for generating random numbers on vector and parallel architecture machines. 12 refs., 14 figs.