Published December 13, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Geant4 electromagnetic physics for high statistic simulation of LHC experiments

  • 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/10.1088/1742-6596/396/2/022013

Additional details

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)