Detector simulation challenges for future accelerator experiments

J Apostolakis, M Bandieramonte, S Banerjee… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Detector simulation is a key component for studies on prospective future high-energy
colliders, the design, optimization, testing and operation of particle physics experiments, and …

Generative models for fast simulation

S Vallecorsa - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Machine Learning techniques have been used in different applications by the HEP
community: in this talk, we discuss the case of detector simulation. The need for simulated …

A high-performance portable abstract interface for explicit simd vectorization

P Karpiński, J McDonald - … of the 8th International Workshop on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This work establishes a scalable, easy to use and efficient approach for exploiting SIMD
capabilities of modern CPUs, without the need for extensive knowledge of architecture …

Offloading electromagnetic shower transport to GPUs

G Amadio, J Apostolakis, P Buncic… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Making general particle transport simulation for high-energy physics (HEP) single-instruction-
multiple-thread (SIMT) friendly, to take advantage of accelerator hardware, is an important …

The GeantV project: preparing the future of simulation

G Amadio, J Apostolakis… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Detector simulation is consuming at least half of the HEP computing cycles, and even so,
experiments have to take hard decisions on what to simulate, as their needs greatly surpass …

GeantV: Results from the prototype of concurrent vector particle transport simulation in HEP

G Amadio, A Ananya, J Apostolakis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Full detector simulation was among the largest CPU consumer in all CERN experiment
software stacks for the first two runs of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the early 2010's …

The LHCb software and computing upgrade for Run 3: opportunities and challenges

C Bozzi, S Roiser… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The LHCb detector will be upgraded for the LHC Run 3 and will be readout at 30 MHz,
corresponding to the full inelastic collision rate, with major implications on the full software …

High-throughput, accurate Monte Carlo simulation on CPU hardware for PET applications

JJ Scheins, M Lenz, U Pietrzyk, NJ Shah… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulations (MCS) represent a fundamental approach to modelling the photon
interactions in positron emission tomography (PET). A variety of PET-dedicated MCS tools …

Celeritas: GPU-accelerated particle transport for detector simulation in High Energy Physics experiments

SC Tognini, P Canal, TM Evans, G Lima… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Within the next decade, experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) will enter a new era of
scientific discovery through a set of targeted programs recommended by the Particle Physics …

Current and future performance of the CMS simulation

K Pedro - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 - epj-conferences.org
The CMS full simulation using Geant4 has delivered billions of simulated events for analysis
during Runs 1 and 2 of the LHC. However, the HL-LHC dataset will be an order of …