Simulation Group

(LPC at Fermilab)

Admin

Group Heads

V. Daniel Elvira, Fermilab, daniel@fnal.gov , (630) 840-3604
Harry Cheung, Fermilab, cheung@fnal.gov , (630) 840-8628

Mailing Lists

lpc_simul@fnal.gov: Ours; currently 76 members ( to subscribe or obtain list).

For experts:

cms-sw-simulation@cern.ch: CMS' OSCAR (full GEANT simulation) list
cms-famos-developers@cms-lb.cern.ch: CMS' FAMOS (fast MC simulation) list

Document Database

LPC Simulations Documentation Database
Username is "lpcsim", see or call group heads or other LPC Simulations group members for the pw.

Publicly viewable documents in the LPC Simulations Documentation Database

Meetings and Minutes

The agendas for the LPC Simulations Meeting at Fermilab are available from the LPC Simulations Agenda Server

Meeting minutes available in the document database (Original list available here.)

Next meeting on September, 4, 2007

Current Activities

List of Institutions: Colorado, FNAL, FSU, KSU, KU, Maryland, Madrid, Mississippi, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Purdue, Purdue University Calumet, Puerto Rico, Rutgers, Tata, and UIC

OSCAR Validation

Forward Pixels Geometry Update and Pixel simulation contributions

Luminosity Counters Implementation in OSCAR

ECAL Crystal Response Studies

Test Beam 2004 Analysis

HF Showerlibrary Implementation in OSCAR

Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) Implementation in OSCAR

GFlash shower parameterization for Geant4

Romulus Godang's web page

Simulation tools and studies for an upgraded Tracker for SLHC

Detailed Instructions for Generation & Analysis of MC Data
General Presentations:

HowTo @LPC

Generating Monte Carlo for physics analysis

Instructions for generation of simulation and digis in CMSSW
Pre-generated samples (See also the CMS Data Discovery Page)
Running in batch mode to generate larger samples (See also the WorkBook GRID entry)
Instructions for old framework (using CMKIN, OSCAR and ORCA)
- Tutorial for old framework
- Detailed instructions on Generating and Analyzing Monte Carlo events for simulation development

Analyzing Monte Carlo events

Visualizing any DDD/XML geometry using iguana

HCAL Test Beam 04 example using old framework

Policy for use of disk space on cmsuaf by users.

Information on working at the CMS User Analysis Farm (UAF).

CMS Products

Software Tutorials

CMS Code Browser

OSCAR - CMS detector simulation package, based on GEANT4.

FAMOS - CMS fast detector simulation package.

ORCA - CMS reconstruction package.

COBRA - CMS framework package.

Geometry - CMS Geometry description in xml files.

DDD - Detector Description Database package (language to describe detector geometry).

IGUANACMS - CMS visualization package.

Last updated on November 13, 2006 by Harry Cheung and Daniel Elvira