Geant4 electromagnetic physics for high statistic simulation of LHC experiments
Creators
- 1. Geant4 Associates International Ltd (United Kingdom)
- 2. CERN, CH1211 Geneve 23 (Switzerland)
- 3. Lebedev Physics Institute, 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 4. Metz University, LPMC, 57078 Metz (France)
- 5. LAPP, 74941 Anneccy-le-vieux (France)
- 6. University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
- 7. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- 8. Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS/IN2P3, CENBG, 33175 Gradignan (France)
- 9. INFN/Genoa (Italy)
- 10. ESA/ESTEC, 2200 AG Noordwjik (Netherlands)
- 11. INFN-LNGS, I-67100 Assergi (Italy)
- 12. Varian Medical Systems, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Description
An overview of the current status of electromagnetic physics (EM) of the Geant4 toolkit is presented. Recent improvements are focused on the performance of large scale production for LHC and on the precision of simulation results over a wide energy range. Significant efforts have been made to improve the accuracy without compromising of CPU speed for EM particle transport. New biasing options have been introduced, which are applicable to any EM process. These include algorithms to enhance and suppress processes, force interactions or splitting of secondary particles. It is shown that the performance of the EM sub-package is improved. We will report extensions of the testing suite allowing high statistics validation of EM physics. It includes validation of multiple scattering, bremsstrahlung and other models. Cross checks between standard and low-energy EM models have been performed using evaluated data libraries and reference benchmark results.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/396/2/022013Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 396
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- [15 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- International conference on computing in high energy and nuclear physics 2012
- Acronym
- CHEP2012
- Dates
- 21-25 May 2012
- Place
- New York, NY (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44035622
- Subject category
- S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCURACY; ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKS; BREMSSTRAHLUNG; CERN LHC; COLLIDING BEAMS; COMPUTER CALCULATIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; G CODES; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BEAMS; COMPUTER CODES; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PROCESSING; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SPECTROMETERS; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; TESTING