Speaker
Norman Graf
(SLAC)
Description
As the complexity and resolution of particle detectors increases,
the need for detailed simulation of the experimental setup also
increases. Designing experiments requires efficient tools to
simulate detector response and optimize the cost-benefit ratio
for design options. We have developed efficient and flexible
tools for detailed physics and detector response simulation which
builds on the power of the Geant4 toolkit but frees the end user
from any C++ coding. The primary goal has been to develop a
simulation program and I/O formats to allow physicists from
universities and labs to quickly and easily contribute to detector
design without requiring either coding expertise or experience with
Geant4.
We have developed the Geant4-based detector simulation program,
slic, which employs generic I/O formats as well as a textual detector
description. Extending the pure geometric capabilities of GDML, LCDD
enables fields, regions, sensitive detector readout elements, etc. to be
fully described at runtime using an xml file. We provide executable
programs for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Primary author
Norman Graf
(SLAC)