Speaker
Andreas.Morsch@cern.ch Morsch
(CERN)
Description
The ALICE Offline Project has developed a virtual interface to the detector transport
code called Virtual Monte Carlo. It isolates the user code from changes of the
detector simulation package and hence allows a seamless transition from GEANT3 to
GEANT4 and FLUKA.
Moreover, a new geometrical modeler has been developed in collaboration with the ROOT
team, and successfully interfaced to the three programs. This allows the use of one
description of geometry, which can be used also during reconstruction and visualization.
In this paper we present the present status of the Virtual Monte Carlo and in
particular the FLUKA Virtual Monte Carlo implementation, its testing and application
for detector response simulation and radiation studies.
