The ATLAS simulation in preparation for the LHC startup

Author

Rimoldi, A. ; Gallas, M. ; Acqua, A. Dell´ ; Simone, A. Di ; Ueda, I. ; Marshall, Z.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Pavia & INFN, Pavia

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

Oct. 26 2007-Nov. 3 2007

Firstpage

843

Lastpage

846

Abstract

The commissioning phase for the ATLAS experiment, now in preparation of the switching on of the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) machine, is a challenge for every development since now performed. The simulation program is in this line, it is operational and running with full functionality within the ATLAS common framework Athena. The latest developments are towards an enhanced versatility, to cope with the increasing needs of developers and users, and easiness in use by a big community such as ATLAS reaching now more than 2000 potential users. Emphasis in this talk is towards the new functionality recently added, validation and production strategy as well as improved robustness and maintainability.

Keywords

high energy physics instrumentation computing; position sensitive particle detectors; ATLAS simulation; LHC; Large Hadron Collider machine; detector simulation software; robustness; Application software; Degradation; Detectors; Information geometry; Large Hadron Collider; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Performance evaluation; Physics; Software testing; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2007. NSS '07. IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0922-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436460

Filename

4436460