Speaker
Dr
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
Description
The complexity of the Geant4 code requires careful testing of all of its components,
especially before major releases. In this talk, we will concentrate on the recent
development of an automatic suite for testing hadronic physics in high energy
calorimetry applications. The idea is to use a simplified set of hadronic
calorimeters, with different beam particle types, and various beam energies, and
comparing relevant observables between a given reference version of Geant4 and the
new candidate one. Only those distributions that are statistically incompatible are
then printed out and finally inspected by a person to look for possible bugs. The
suite is made of Python scripts, and utilizes the "Statistical Toolkit" for the
statistical tests between pair of distributions, and runs on the Grid to cope with
the large amount of CPU needed in a short period of time.
Primary author
Dr
Alberto Ribon
(CERN)
Co-authors
Dr
Ian MacLaren
(CERN)
Dr
Johannes-Peter Wellisch
(CERN)
Dr
John Apostolakis
(CERN)
Dr
Patricia Mendez Lorenzo
(CERN)
