Journal Article

The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure

Petteni, M., Tic, T., Walkowiak, W., Fiascaris, M., Hashemi, K., Cuhadar Donszelmann, T., Lucotte, A., Zhang, Q., Strom, D. M., Hines, E., Hasegawa, S., Yang, Z., Fabbri, L., Benedict, B. H., Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A., Carminati, L., Krejci, F., Cantero, J., Hubaut, F., Hsu, S.-C., Nderitu, S. K., van der Ster, D., Abolins, M., Mellado Garcia, B. R., Diaz, M. A., Dudarev, A., Irles Quiles, A., Oren, Y., Borissov, G., Kajomovitz, E., Archambault, J. P., Beddall, A., Dehchar, M., De Oliveira Branco, M., Catmore, J. R., Calafiura, P., Gonzalez-Sevilla, S., Korn, A., Laplace, S., Qi, M., Moser, H. G., Blanchard, J.-B., Kim, H., Schwindling, J., Hessey, N. P., Ahsan, M., Carter, J. R., Wicek, F., Cataldi, G., Krüger, H., Blum, W., Fischer, G., Schumacher, J. W., Gazis, E. N., Keates, J. R., Batley, J. R., Epp, B., Vokac, P., Hawkings, R. J., Lee, J. S. H., Ahlen, S. P., Cavalleri, P., Stapnes, S., Levin, D., Froeschl, R., Barlow, N., Zoccoli, A., Deng, W., Jia, J., Viehhauser, G. H. A., Poffenberger, P., Cameron, D., Wildt, M. A., Veloso, F., Freestone, J., Dervan, P., Davidek, T., Pizio, C., Korotkov, V. A., Liang, Z., Cowden, C., Jon-And, K., Ozcan, V

2010

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag,Springer,Springer Nature B.V,Springer Verlag (Germany)
• Subject: Astronomy / Astrophysics and Cosmology / Collisions (Nuclear physics) / Computer programs / Computer simulation / Detectors / Elementarpartikelfysik / Elementary particle physics / Elementary Particles / Exact sciences and technology / Fysik / Hadrons / Heavy Ions / High Energy Physics - Experiment / Infrastructure / Infrastructure (Economics) / Instrumentation and Detectors / Large Hadron Collider / Measurement Science and Instrumentation / NATURAL SCIENCES / NATURVETENSKAP / Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Physics / Packages / Particle collisions / Physics / Physics and Astronomy / Quantum Field Theories / Quantum Field Theory / Simulation / Software / Special Article - Tools for Experiment and Theory / String Theory / Synthetic training devices / The physics of elementary particles and fields