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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 65: Experimentelle Techniken der Astroteilchenphysik 4

T 65.4: Talk

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 17:30–17:45, S 055

Porting Simulation Software to Geant4 v10r3 and its Application to the Pierre Auger Observatory Surface Detector Simulations. — •Eric Mayotte for the Pierre Auger collaboration — Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Geant4 is widely used for accurate simulation of particle detector response. Unfortunately, many implementations of Geant4 are built and tested early on in an experiment and then left unchanged for the lifetime of the project. This is understandable as stability of simulations is a highly desirable quality for all collaborations. However, Geant4 is constantly being improved, providing more accurate physics results and an optimized performance. The upgrade from Geant4 v9 releases to the new Geant4 v10 releases adds many new features and improvements, but also involves some significant changes to the user interface. The Pierre Auger Collaboration recently updated its surface detector (SD) simulations to use the new Geant4 versions. This talk will give a brief overview of the process of porting detector simulations to the new software. Examples of the resulting changes seen in the Pierre Auger Observatory SD simulations when updating from v9r4 to v10r3 will also be shown.

Funded by the BMBF Research Astroparticle Physics (grant 05A14PX1).