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> namesake of Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating

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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/10.1088/1742-6596/898/4/0...

Projected sensitivities of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment to new physics via low-energy electron recoils

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11740

Are there hard objectives that get reached or achieved with the simulations or whatever's being run? Or is it some amount of data that may or may not show something significant but up to interpretation?

Dude is getting stuff named after him while he's still alive!

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