Speaker
Dr
Mikhail Kirsanov
(Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
Description
The Generator Services project collaborates with the Monte Carlo
generators authors and with the LHC experiments in order to prepare
validated LCG compliant code for both the theoretical and the
experimental communities at the LHC. On the one side it provides the
technical support as far as the installation and the maintenance of
the generators packages on the supported platforms is concerned and on
the other side it participates in the physics validation of the
generators.
The libraries of the Monte Carlo generators maintained within this
project are currently widely adopted by the LHC collaborations and are
used in large scale productions. The existing testing and validation
tools are regularly used and the additional ones are being developed,
in particular for the new object-oriented generators. The aim of the
validation activity is also to participate in the tuning of the
generators in order to provide appropriate settings for the
proton-proton collisions at the LHC energy level.
This paper presents the current status and the future plans of the
Generator Services project. The approach used in order to provide
tested Monte Carlo generators for the LHC experiments is discussed and
some of the testing and validation tools are presented.
Primary authors
Dr
Mikhail Kirsanov
(Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
Dr
Witold Pokorski
(CERN)
Co-authors
Dr
Alexander Toropin
(Institute for Nuclear Research (INR))
Mr
Oleg Zenin
(IHEP Protvino)
