Simulation studies for ICAL detector at India-based Neutrino Observatory

With the proposed project of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), India has joined the worldwide efforts made to understand the elusive particle, neutrino. INO will be an underground facility which will house different neutrino experiments. Primary experiment will be the Magnetized Iron CALorimeter (ICAL). Simulation studies were carried out to study the detector response which in turn determines the sensitivity of the detector for different oscillation parameters. It further helps in deciding detector parameters in order to improve the sensitivity to the oscillation parameters. Here we will discuss the simulation and reconstruction package developed for this purpose and the preliminary results obtained