2003/05/22 by BaBar Collaboration, D. H. Wright, D. Aston +20
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0305240
2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics Conference (CHEP03), SLAC-PUB-9862, 7 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2003/05/22 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Babar was the first large experiment to incorporate Geant4 into its detector simulation. Since July 2001, 1.5 billion Babar events have been produced using this simulation. In a typical e+e- -> Upsilon(4s) -> B0 B0bar event, between 30 and 60 tracks are produced in the generator and propagated through the detector, using decay, electromagnetic and hadronic processes provided by the Geant4 toolkit. The material model of the detector is very detailed and a special particle transportation module was developed so that minute features (on the few micron scale) would be sampled in the propagation without sacrificing performance. The propagation phase for such an event requires 5 CPU seconds on an 866 MHz processor. Execution speeds for other Babar event types will also be presented. Validation of simulated events with Babar data is ongoing, and results of Monte Carlo/data comparisons will be shown. A discussion of the design of the simulation code, how the Geant4 toolkit is used, and ongoing efforts to improve the agreement between data and Monte Carlo will also be presented.