The CMS all silicon tracker simulation

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) tracker detector is the world´s largest silicon detector with about 201 m² of silicon strips detectors and 1 m² of silicon pixel detectors. It contains 66 millions pixels and 10 million individual sensing strips. The quality of the physics analysis is highly correlated with the precision of the tracker detector simulation which is written on top of the GEANT4 and the CMS object-oriented framework. The hit position resolution in the tracker detector depends on the ability to correctly model the CMS tracker geometry, the signal digitization, calibration and inefficiency. In order to ensure high performance in track and vertex reconstruction, an accurate knowledge of the material budget is therefore necessary since the passive materials, involved in the readout, cooling or power systems, will create unwanted effects during the particle detection, such as multiple scattering, electron bremsstrahlung and photon conversion. In this paper, we present the CMS tracker simulation description. The simulation was validated by comparing its results with CMS cosmic data taken in fall 2008.