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The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
Abstract
The simulation software for the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is being used for largescale production of events on the LHC Computing Grid. This simulation requires many components, from the generators that simulate particle collisions, through packages simulating the response of the various detectors and triggers. All of these components come together under the ATLAS simulation infrastructure. In this paper, that infrastructure is discussed, including that supporting the detector description, interfacing the event generation, and combining the GEANT4 simulation of the response of the individual detectors. Also described are the tools allowing the software validation, performance testing, and the validation of the simulated output against known physics processes.
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© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2010. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Received: 20 May 2010; Revised: 27 July 2010; Published online: 25 September 2010. We are greatly indebted to all CERN's departments and to the LHC project for their immense efforts not only in building the LHC, but also for their direct contributions to the construction and installation of the ATLAS detector and its infrastructure. We acknowledge equally warmly all our technical colleagues in the collaborating Institutions without whom the ATLAS detector could not have been built. Furthermore we are grateful to all the funding agencies which supported generously the construction and the commissioning of the ATLAS detector and also provided the computing infrastructure. The ATLAS detector design and construction has taken about fifteen years, and our thoughts are with all our colleagues who sadly could not see its final realisation. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia; ARC and DEST, Australia; Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Austria; National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan; State Committee on Science & Technologies of the Republic of Belarus; CNPq and FINEP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC, and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic,Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic, and Committee for Collaboration of the Czech Republic with CERN; Danish Natural Science Research Council and the Lundbeck Foundation; European Commission, through the ARTEMIS Research Training Network; IN2P3-CNRS and Dapnia-CEA, France; Georgian Academy of Sciences; BMBF, DFG, HGF and MPG, Germany; Ministry of Education and Religion, through the EPEAEK program PYTHAGORAS II and GSRT, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, DIP, and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; The Research Council of Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; Ministry of Education and Research, Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Russian Federal Agency of Science and Innovations, and Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy; JINR; Ministry of Science, Serbia; Department of International Science and Technology Cooperation, Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic; Slovenian Research Agency, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia; Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain; The Swedish Research Council, The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; State Secretariat for Education and Science, Swiss National Science Foundation, and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; National Science Council, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; The Science and Technology Facilities Council and The Leverhulme Trust, UK; DOE and NSF, USA; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA. The authors would like to thank the GEANT4 developers for their work and support.Attached Files
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- ANPCyT (Argentina)
- Yerevan Physics Institute (Armenia)
- ARC (Australia)
- DEST (Australia)
- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung (Austria)
- National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
- State Committee on Science & Technologies of the Republic of Belarus
- CNPq (Brazil)
- FINEP (Brazil)
- NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
- NRC (Canada)
- CFI (Canada)
- CERN
- CONICYT (Chile)
- NSFC (China)
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic
- Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
- Committee for Collaboration of the Czech Republic with CERN
- Danish Natural Science Research Council
- Lundbeck Foundation
- European Commission, through the ARTEMIS Research Training Network
- CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- CEA/DAPNIA (France)
- Georgian Academy of Sciences
- BMBF (Germany)
- DFG (Germany)
- HGF (Germany)
- MPG (Germany)
- Ministry of Education and Religion, through the EPEAEK program PYTHAGORAS II
- GSRT (Greece)
- ISF (Israel)
- MINERVA (Israel)
- GIF (Israel)
- DIP (Israel)
- Benoziyo Center (Israel)
- INFN (Italy)
- MEXT (Japan)
- CNRST (Morocco)
- FOM (The Netherlands)
- NWO (Netherlands)
- Research Council of Norway
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- GRICES (Portugal)
- FCT (Portugal)
- Ministry of Education and Research (Romania)
- Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
- Russian Federal Agency of Science and Innovations
- Russian Federal Agency of Atomic Energy
- JINR
- Ministry of Science (Serbia)
- Department of International Science and Technology Cooperation
- Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic
- Slovenian Research Agency
- Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (Slovenia)
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain)
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation
- State Secretariat for Education and Science (Switzerland)
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Cantons of Bern and Geneva (Switzerland)
- National Science Council (Taiwan)
- TAEK (Turkey)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (UK)
- Leverhulme Trust
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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