The CMS electromagnetic calorimeter simulation

Author

Cossutti, Fabio

Author_Institution

Sezione di Trieste, Ist. Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trieste

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 29 2006-Nov. 1 2006

Firstpage

1465

Lastpage

1469

Abstract

The CMS collaboration has developed a detailed simulation of the electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL), which has been fully integrated in the collaboration software framework CMSSW. The simulation is based on the Geant4 detector simulation toolkit for the modelling of the passage of particles through matter and magnetic field. The geometrical description of the detector is being re-implemented using the DetectorDescription language, combining an XML based description of with the algorithmic definition of the position of the elements. The ECAL simulation software is fully operational and will be validated using real data from the ECAL test beam experiment that took place in summer 2006.

Keywords

high energy physics instrumentation computing; particle calorimetry; solid scintillation detectors; AD 2006; CMSSW software framework; DetectorDescription language; Geant4 detector simulation toolkit; electromagnetic calorimeter; Collaborative software; Collision mitigation; Detectors; Helium; Large Hadron Collider; Magnetic fields; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Photonic crystals; Testing; XML; CMS; Geant4; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1095-7863

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0560-2

Electronic_ISBN

1095-7863

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354176

Filename

4179289