AtlFast3: the next generation of fast simulation in ATLAS

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Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has a broad physics programme ranging from precision measurements to direct searches for new particles and new interactions, requiring ever larger and ever more accurate datasets of simulated Monte Carlo events. Detector simulation with GEANT4 is accurate but requires significant CPU resources. Over the past decade, ATLAS has developed and utilized tools that replace the most CPU-intensive component of the simulation—the calorimeter shower simulation—with faster simulation methods. Here, AtlFast3, the next generation of high-accuracy fast simulation in ATLAS, is introduced. AtlFast3 combines parameterized approaches with machine-learning techniques and is deployed to meet current and future computing challenges, and simulation needs of the ATLAS experiment. With highly accurate performance and significantly improved modelling of substructure within jets, AtlFast3 can simulate large numbers of events for a wide range of physics processes.
Original languageEnglish
Article number7
Number of pages54
JournalComputing and Software for Big Science
Volume6
Issue number1
Early online date11 Mar 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2022

Bibliographical note

75 pages in total, author list starting page 59, 42 figures, 6 tables, accepted by CSBS. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SIMU-2018-04/

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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