3–7 Nov 2008
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
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Hadronic Physics in Geant4: Improvements and Status for LHC Start

4 Nov 2008, 16:10
25m
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

Via Guarnotta, 26 - 91016 ERICE (Sicily) - Italy Tel: +39-0923-869133 Fax: +39-0923-869226 E-mail: hq@ccsem.infn.it
Parallel Talk 3. Computation in Theoretical Physics Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 2

Speaker

Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

Description

An overview of recent developments for the Geant4 hadronic modeling is provided with a focus on the start of the LHC experiments. Improvements in Pre-Compound model, Binary and Bertini cascades, models of elastic scattering, quark-gluon string and Fritiof high energy models, and low-energy neutron transport were introduced using validation versus data from thin target experiments. Many of these developments were directed to improve simulation of hadronic showers for LHC. As a result, starting from Geant4 8.3, the Physics List QGSP_BERT describes reasonably well all the main observables that have been measured in different test-beam setups for ATLAS and CMS experiments.

Primary author

Prof. Vladimir Ivantchenko (CERN, ESA)

Co-authors

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