Simulation in LHCb
This page is intended to hold fast evolving information on the simulation and to allow contributions by all. More information is available from the Gauss official web site that is cross referenced to this site.
Some topics in these pages may be not up to date, in which case they are indicated with
(May-Be-)Not-Up-To-Date. If you find something is no longer up to date, please tag it as such.
Topic being worked on are indicated with
In-Work.
Introduction
Gauss is the LHCb Simulation software, built on the
Gaudi Framework.
It consist of a first phase where the events are generated (e.g. pp collisions at 14 TeV) and a second phase where the particles are propagated trough the LHCb detectors.
Coordinators
The Gauss integration and release manager is
Gloria Corti. The list of topics and coordinators/contacts is
here
.
Gauss Web
The main Gauss web page containing release information and links to user guides and tutorials, is
here
.
Documentation
Current and future developments
Bugs and features
To report new bugs or unexpected feature use the
"LHCb Physics software" savannah portal
and select "Simulation" as category.
You can also check the list of already known bugs and their status.
Future releases
The current sets are under active development and support:
Deadline for contributions |
Project/Package |
Version |
Details |
Group |
Release |
07 Dec 2012 - |
Geant4 |
v95r2p1 |
Build of G4 9.5.p02 with dependency on LCG and not Gaudi |
DEV |
10 Dec 2012 |
16 Nov 2012 - |
Geant4 |
v95r2 |
Build of G4 9.5.p02 |
DEV |
19 Nov 2012 |
16 Nov 2012 - |
Gauss |
v43r2 |
Use new version of Geant4 v95r1, based on LHCb v35r2/Gaudi v23r3, new version of pythia6, lhapdf |
DEV |
19 Nov 2012 |
19 Nov 2012 - |
Gauss |
v44r2 |
New version of EvtGen v13r0 with interface to tauola++, photos++ and pythia8 |
DEV |
21 Nov 2012 |
24 Nov 2012 - |
DecFiles |
v25r19 |
Definition of new event types for MC11a |
MC11a |
26 Nov 2012 |
24 Nov 2012 - |
DecFiles |
v26r19 |
Definition of new event types for MC-2012 |
2012 |
26 Nov 2012 |
24 Nov 2012 - |
Boole |
v26r0 |
Based on LHCb v35r2/Gaudi v23r4, with support for upgrade |
DEV |
26 Nov 2012 |
end Nov 2012 |
DecFiles |
v27r0 |
With new format in decay files for tests with Gauss > v44r2 |
DEV |
end Nov 2012 |
Preview as available in the nightly builds can be found
here
See the
LHCb Tag Collector
for details, status and deadline for contributions for future versions.
Instructions to Gauss Managers to prepare releases
-- Last Update:
GloriaCorti - 16-Mar-2012