The LiC detector toy program

This note describes the “LiC Detector Toy” (“LiC” for Linear Collider) software tool which has been developed for detector design studies, aiming at investigating the resolution of reconstructed track parameters for the purpose of comparing and optimizing various detector setups. It consists of a simplified simulation of the detector measurements, taking into account multiple scattering, followed by full single track reconstruction using the Kalman filter. The tool is written in Matlab and may be installed on a laptop. It can easily be used as a black-box tool by non-experts, but also adapted to individual needs.