The ATLAS simulation infrastructure

G. Aad..[et al.]; Mogens Dam; Jørgen Beck Hansen; John Renner Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; Stefania Xella; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Björn Stefan Nilsson

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1429-9

The ATLAS simulation infrastructure

G. Aad..[et al.], Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Stefania Xella, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Björn Stefan Nilsson

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Abstract

The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being used for large-scale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation requires many components, from the generators that simulate particle collisions, through packages simulating the response of the various detectors and triggers. All of these components come together under the ATLAS simulation infrastructure. In this paper, that infrastructure is discussed, including that supporting the detector description, interfacing the event generation, and combining the GEANT4 simulation of the response of the individual detectors. Also described are the tools allowing the software validation, performance testing, and the validation of the simulated output against known physics processes.

Original language	English
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	70
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	823-874
Number of pages	53
ISSN	1434-6044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1429-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2010

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