Speaker
Prof.
Adele Rimoldi
(University of Pavia)
Description
The simulation program for the ATLAS experiment at CERN is currently in a full
operational mode and integrated into the ATLAS’s common analysis framework, ATHENA.
The OO approach, based on GEANT4, and in use during the DC2 data challenge has been
interfaced within ATHENA and to GEANT4 using the LCG dictionaries and Python
scripting. The robustness of the application was proved during the DC2 data
challenge. The Python interface has added the flexibility, modularity and
interactivity that the simulation tool needs to tackle, in a common way, different
full ATLAS simulations setups, test beams and cosmic ray studies. Generation,
simulation and digitization steps were exercised for performance and robustness
tests. The comparison with real data has been possible in the context of the ATLAS
Combined Test Beam (2004) and ongoing cosmic ray studies.
Primary authors
Dr
Andrea Dell'Acqua
(CERN)
Dr
Manuel Gallas
(CERN)
Co-authors
Prof.
Adele Rimoldi
(University of Pavia)
Dr
Andrea Di Simone
(CERN)
Dr
Armin Nairz
(CERN)
Dr
Davide Costanzo
(University of Sheffield)
Dr
Vakhtang Tsulaia
(University of Pittsburg, USA)
