20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2013)

The ILC Detailed Baseline Design Exercise: Simulating the Physics capabilities and detector performance of the Silicon Detector using the Grid

14 Oct 2013, 15:00

45m

Grote zaal (Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage)

Poster presentation Distributed Processing and Data Handling A: Infrastructure, Sites, and Virtualization Poster presentations

Speaker

Norman Anthony Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))

Description

The International Linear Collider (ILC) physics and detector community recently completed an exercise to demonstrate the physics capabilities of detector concepts. The Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) involved the generation, simulation, reconstruction and analysis of large samples of Monte Carlo datasets. The detector simulations utilized extremely detailed Geant4 implementations of engineered detector elements. The datasets incorporated the full set of Standard Model physics backgraounds, as well as machine backgrounds, all overlaid with the correct time structure of overlapping events. We describe how this exercise was undertaken using Grid computing and storage elements, as well as the submission, bookkeeping and cataloging infrastructure developed to support this international endeavor.