HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Detector Simulation
Abstract
A working group on detector simulation was formed as part of the high-energy physics (HEP) Software Foundation's initiative to prepare a Community White Paper that describes the main software challenges and opportunities to be faced in the HEP field over the next decade. The working group met over a period of several months in order to review the current status of the Full and Fast simulation applications of HEP experiments and the improvements that will need to be made in order to meet the goals of future HEP experimental programmes. The scope of the topics covered includes the main components of a HEP simulation application, such as MC truth handling, geometry modeling, particle propagation in materials and fields, physics modeling of the interactions of particles with matter, the treatment of pileup and other backgrounds, as well as signal processing and digitisation. The resulting work programme described in this document focuses on the need to improve both the software performance and the physics of detector simulation. The goals are to increase the accuracy of the physics models and expand their applicability to future physics programmes, while achieving large factors in computing performance gains consistent with projections on available computing resources.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.04165,
title = {HEP Software Foundation Community White Paper Working Group - Detector Simulation},
author = {HEP Software Foundation and : and J Apostolakis and M Asai and S Banerjee and R Bianchi and P Canal and R Cenci and J Chapman and G Corti and G Cosmo and S Easo and L de Oliveira and A Dotti and V Elvira and S Farrell and L Fields and K Genser and A Gheata and M Gheata and J Harvey and F Hariri and R Hatcher and K Herner and M Hildreth and V Ivantchenko and T Junk and T Junk and M Kirby and D Konstantinov and R Kutschke and P Lebrun and G Lima and A Lyon and Z Marshall and P Mato and M Mooney and R Mount and J Mousseau and B Nachman and A Norman and M Novak and I Osborne and M Paganini and K Pedro and W Pokorski and X Qian and J Raaf and M Rama and A Ribon and S Roiser and D Ruterbories and S Sekmen and B Siddi and E Snider and S Vallecorsa and M Verderi and H Wenzel and S Wenzel and B Viren and T Yang and J Yarba and J Yarba and D H Wright and C Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.04165},
year = {2018}
}