TCAD Field Simulation

This example follows the “fast simulation” example but now replaces the simplified linear electric field with an actual TCAD-simulated electric field. For this reason, the ProjectionPropagation module is replaced by GenericPropagation as the former only allows for linear fields owing to the simplifications made in the drift calculations.

The setup is unchanged compared to the “fast simulation example” and consists of six Timepix-type detectors with a sensor thickness of 300um arranged in a telescope-like structure, inclined planes for charge sharing, and a defined alignment precision. The charge deposition is also performed by Geant4 with a stepping length of 10um.

Again, DepositedCharge and PropagatedCharge objects are not written to the output file as information about these objects cannot be accessed in data and thus are rarely used in the analysis of the simulation.