Documents: final report (CERN-LCG-2002-024)
Chair: Albert De Roeck
Mandate:
To best explore the common solutions needed and how to engage the HEP community external to the LCG it is proposed to study: | How to maintain a common code repository for the generator code and related tools such as PDFLIB. |
| The development or adaptation of generator-related tools (e.g.HepMC) for LHC needs. |
| How to provide support for the tuning, evaluation and maintenance of the generators. |
| The integration of the Monte Carlo generators into the experimental software frameworks. |
| The structure of possible forums to facilitate interaction with the distributed external groups who provide the Monte Carlo generators. |
Timescale
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1 months for the initial report |
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2 months in total for the final report to SC2 |
Makeup:
reps from each of the LHC experiments (ATLAS: Ian Hinchliffe, CMS:Albert
deRoeck, LHCb: Nick Brook, ALICE:??)
rep from CERN theory group: (Michelangelo Mangano)
external generator author (Lonnblad-PYTHIA??;Seymour-HERWIG??)
simulation expert (in broad sense, not only G4) ?
Members and experts:
Guidance:
The physics MC generation will be a rather time consuming effort, and allocation of resources as well as the identification of common strategies cannot wait the arrival of the first data. The integration of MC physics simulation with the plans for computing at the LHC will be essential for an optimal and coherent use of the developed tools