Aptly named, as the first simulations will be detecting dark matter. What's incredible is that optical simulation in high energy physics can be reduced to ray t

Aptly named, as the first simulations will be detecting dark matter. What's incredible is that optical simulation in high energy physics can be reduced to ray tracing in computer graphics. Photon generation and propagation directly mapping to NVidia's OptiX framework ;) Opticks : GPU Optical Photon Simulation for Particle Physics using NVIDIAR OptiX https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/898/4/042001/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/898/4/0... Projected sensitivities of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to new physics via low-energy electron recoils https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11740 https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11740