Experimental validation of the ANTS2 code for modelling optical photon transport in monolithic LYSO crystals.

In this work the scintillation energy spectra originating from the background radioactivity from polished monolithic lutetium yttrium oxyorthosilicate coupled to position-sensitive silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) was studied using the open source Monte Carlo simulation package ANTS2. Two crystal sizes, fully and partially covering the photosensor area, three surface crystal wrappings (black, specular or diffuse) and the full signal formation process in the photosensor were considered. The simulation results were validated with experimental data acquired under the same geometric and detector operating conditions.