Documentation of Simulation (Gauss) and Digitization (Boole)

-- SilviaMiglioranzi - 30 Dec 2008

General Info

• Geant4: Geant4 Physics Manual, Geant4 Review (G. Corti)
• General overview status simulation: Simulation Issues - SW Week 20080620 (G. Corti), Gauss Status - SW Week 20080916 (G. Corti)

GAUSS status for the different subdetectors

• VELO: Simulation web page, LHCb-2006-054
• ST: ST Software page, IT material description note (LHCb 2008-027), TT material description note (LHCB 2008-061)
• OT: OT software notes in BOOLE documentation page
• CALO: XML Description of ECAL Geometry (G. Pakhlova), Status of Geant4 Calorimeter Simulation (P. Robbe), Gauss/Ecal News (P. Robbe), Simulation - Teast beam comparison for Ecal (P. Robbe), LHCb-2005-017
• RICH: RICH Simulation paper
• MUON:
• BCM: presentations in LHCb radiation meetings, BCM note (LHCb 2008-027)
• Metal Foil Radiation Detector: Metal Foil note (LHCb 2007-062)

Known features/issues

• dE/dx: Summary of dE/dx studies in Silicon and MS in Muon System (M. Needham), J/Psi + Momentum Scale Calibration (M. Needham), lhcb-2008-037 (M. Needham), Energy Deposition in GAUSS (J. Mylroie-Smith, D. Hutchcroft), Report on Tracking (S. Hansmann-Menzemer)
• MCS: Updates on the Muon System software alignment (S. Vecchi)
• Calorimeter calibration: Calorimetry - new version of Geant4 (V. Romanovsky)

BOOLE status for the different subdetectors

The official BOOLE documentation page for the different subdetectors can be found here. Additional material is listed below.

• VELO:
• ST: ST digitization talk1, ST digitization talk2, ST digitization note (LHCb 2003-015)
• OT:
• CALO:Digitization web page, Realistic noise in the ECAL MC (A. Kozlinskly, I. Belyaev), CALO readout (O. Callot)
• RICH:
• MUON: software documentation web page