A Software Toolkit to Study Systematic Uncertainties of the Physics Models of the Geant4 Simulation Package
- Fermilab
- SLAC
The Geant4 toolkit is used to model interactions between particles and matter. Geant4 employs a set of validated physics models that span a wide range of interaction energies. These models are tuned to cover a large variety of possible applications. This raises the critical question of what uncertainties are associated with the Geant4 physics model, or group of models, involved in a simulation project. To address the challenge, we have designed and implemented a comprehen- sive, modular, user-friendly software toolkit that allows the variation of one or more parameters of one or more Geant4 physics models involved in simulation studies. It also enables analysis of multiple variants of the resulting physics observables of interest in order to estimate the uncertain- ties associated with the simulation model choices. Key functionalities of the toolkit are presented in this paper and are illustrated with selected results.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- Geant4
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1334259
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-CONF-16-526-CD; 1501398
- Journal Information:
- PoS, Conference: 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Chicago, IL, USA, 08/03-08/10/2016
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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