Cherenkov fast Monte Carlo
A small Cherenkov fast Monte Carlo: it shoots charged particles through optical radiators (e.g. aerogel), emits Cherenkov photons via a simplified Frank–Tamm yield, and tracks them through absorption, scattering and reflection until they are detected or lost.
Why it exists
A light, fast way to reason about dRICH-style optics — radiators, photon yields, ring formation — without spinning up a full Geant4 stack. Handy for quick what-if studies.
Built with
A ROOT-backed C++20 static library built directly on my own two libraries: mist (logger, utilities) and mist-hep (ROOT helpers, process-wide RNG). All textual output goes through mist::logger; all randomness is drawn from mist::hep::rng(). Cleanly namespaced (cherenkov_mc::…), with compiled examples and a ctest suite.