Gabor Galgoczi
Nucl & Particle Physics SW, Physics Division
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Division
Bldg. 510A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7020
ggalgoczi1@bnl.gov
Gábor Galgóczi leads the physics, performance and validation development of Simphony, an open source GPU Monte Carlo framework for optical photon transport on NVIDIA OptiX and CUDA that sustains 80 million simulated photons per second on a single GPU, agrees with Geant4 to within 0.25%, and ships in the Electron Ion Collider software stack.
He conceived and co-leads an LDRD project extending the framework to liquid argon neutrino detectors, where it is used by Brookhaven's DUNE group, and has implemented GPU synchrotron radiation X-ray transport for Electron Ion Collider beam-background studies.
Professional Appointments
Co-Principal Investigator, Laboratory Directed Research and Development — "Adapting GPU-Accelerated EIC-Opticks for Optical Photon Simulation in Liquid Argon Detectors" FY26
Selected Publications
- Galgoczi G, Ning X, Smirnov D, et al (2026) GPU optical photon Monte Carlo for noble liquid detectors: validation against Geant4 in a large liquid argon TPC benchmark. Journal of Instrumentation 21:P09022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/21/09/p09022
- Galgoczi G, Kauder K, Potekhin M, et al (2026) GPU acceleration of optical photon propagation in low photon yield applications: Opticks for the Electron Ion Collider. The European Physical Journal C 86: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-026-16180-3
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Division
Bldg. 510A
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-7020
ggalgoczi1@bnl.gov
