WFSim

The XENON waveform simulator.

Fax in strax

Here are the files needed to run the waveform simulator fax and give output in the same formats as used by strax.

Installation

Follow the installation guide to setup WFSim.

Examples

Several tutorials are provided in the tutorial section linked in the documentation. This code is available as IPython Notebooks.

v0.5.8 / 2021-10-19

• Change to online cmt version (#234)
• Update rand instructions (#233)
• Add link to nestpy for interaction types (#231)
• Enable data driven maps and minor changes (#230)
• Make less ele ap instructions (#216)

v0.5.7 / 2021-08-27

• Reinstate optical simulation (#199)
• Run with new strax (#198)
• Pinned tests (#197)
• S1 photon timing patching (#196)
• Bug fix for wrong place to write dtype (#195)
• Fix optical readout (#194)
• Only nveto mc chain (#190)
• Use real noise (#189)

v0.5.6 / 2021-07-19

• Core splitting 2 (#188)
• Github McChain test using G4 file (#177)
• Fix removed nveto (#185)
• No context testing for py3.6 (#187)
• Overwrite detector parameters with CMT (#179)
• Fix the 0.5% bias in gain sampling (#186)

v0.5.5 / 2021-07-07

• Bug fix in strax interface (#184)

v0.5.4 / 2021-06-24

• Get gains from CMT (#172)
• Not to remove nVeto events whose related TPC events don't exist (#171)
• Remove travis for testing in wfsim (#176)
• Oversize chunk handling (#168)
• Adding Kr83m notebook (#167)
• Sorting of S1 photons by channel number to preserve timing (#169)

v0.5.3 / 2021-06-03

• Truth chunk patch (#164)

v0.5.2 / 2021-05-25

• Fix zstd for testing (#163)
• Patch 1T custom context (#162)
• Fixing SPE reconstruciton bias due to truncation (#161)
• Following up the change in pmt ap file (#158)
• Fix #157 for empty files (#160)
• Fix missing last instruction (#159)
• Fix load resource (#157)
• S2 photon patch (#156)
• Fix notebook, evaluate for docs (#154)
• Add tests (#152)
• Use database access to increase coverage of tests (#155)
• Update Getting_started_wfsim.ipynb (#153)

v0.5.1 / 2021-05-03

• S1 timing splines implementation for top/bottom arrays (#148)
• Update classifiers (#150)
• Tuck load ele ap in tpc conditions (#149)
• Fix nveto readout (#147)
• Map update followup (#143)
• Add tests for #144 (#146)
• No default for gain_model_nv defined in the class (#145)

v0.5.0 / 2021-04-22

• McChainSimulator (major) patch (#125)
• Update utilix version in requirements.txt (ffc6c2f)
• Do not track the timeout (#131)
• Change dtype of truth (#138)
• Load Rz field maps (#130)
• Conserve total quanta in tutorial (#135)
• Load GARFIELD map according to liquid level (#127)
• Fix PMT Afterpulse (#117)
• Fixing chunking issue (#118)
• Update history of releases (#123)
• Allow errors while building docs (#122)
• Fix missing epix import (#115)
• Fix non-literal compare (#121)
• Reintroduce self._electron_timings for truth (#116)
• Update tutorial notebook (f59c2c0 + ee6b6ad)

v0.4.1 / 2021-03-24

• Miscellaneous fixes (#113)

v0.4.0 / 2021-03-16

• S1+S2 functions are externally callable (#103)
• Docstrings for most functions (#103)
• Nveto QE implementation (#99)
• Functionality for full chain simulation (#111)
• Using epix for instruction clustering (#111)
• Website for documentation (#105)

v0.2.5 / 2021-02-26

• Config patch and debugging prints (#104)

v0.2.4 / 2021-02-22

• First pip installable release

v0.0.1

• Release as a python package