Speakers
Dr
Daniela Rebuzzi
(INFN, Sezione di Pavia)Dr
Nectarios Benekos
(Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)
Description
The ATLAS detector, currently being installed at CERN, is designed
to make precise measurements of 14 TeV proton-proton collisions at
the LHC, starting in 2007. Arguably the clearest signatures for
new physics, including the Higgs Boson and supersymmetry, will involve
the production of isolated final-stated muons. The identification and
precise reconstruction of muons are performed using a combination of
detector components, including an inner detector, comprising a silicon
tracker, pixel detector, and transition radiation tracker, housed in
a uniform solenoidal field, and a precision standalone Muon Spectrometer,
comprising monitored drift tubes and cathode strip chambers,
triggered by resistive plate chambers and thin-gap chambers,
and housed in a toroidal field.
In order to manage the complexity and to understand the performance of
the ATLAS MuonSpectrometer,a detailed full detector simulation is required and
it should be kept under control by means of automatic validation procedures.
We describe the implementation and the functionalities of the recently
developed MuonValidation package, which has been
developed as a dedicated tool to monitor and validate the
performance of the Full Simulation and Digitization of the Muon System.
Its flexible design allows comparisons between different Muon
geometrical layouts and different software releases.
Validation results based on fully simulated GEANT4 events, using the
complete detailed geometrical description of the detector are shown.
Primary authors
Dr
Daniela Rebuzzi
(INFN, Sezione di Pavia)
Dr
Nectarios Benekos
(Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)
Co-authors
Georgios Dedes
(Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)
Lashkar Kashif
(Harvard University)
Matthias Schott
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)
