• Installing/Running Geant4 Simulation for the Muon System (Examples)
  • 'Rome-Initial' Layout   (Athena Rel. 9.0.4 or 10.0.2)
  • Commissioning Layout (Barrel Sector 13)   (Athena Rel. ≥ 10.1.0)

• Tutorials
  • D. Rebuzzi: III Tutorial on the ATLAS Offline Software, Tutorial given in Rome, April 12, 2005
    Makes use of new pythonized G4Atlas simulation environment
    (ppt)   (pdf)

• Cavern Background

• More Documentation
  • D. Rebuzzi, K.A. Assamagan, A. Di Simone, Y. Hasegawa, N. van Eldik: GEANT4 Muon Digitization in the ATHENA Framework,
    note to be published (draft version; April 27, 2005)   (pdf)   (ps)
  • doxygen Documentation for the Muon Simulation Software

• Muon Testbeam Simulation Pages

• Links to Old Muon Simulation Pages
  • Old Muon Simulation Page (Until June 2004)

  • Very Old Muon Simulation Pages (Until 2003)

Simulation of the Muon System in 'Rome-Initial' Layout   (Using Athena Rel. 9.0.4 or 10.0.2)

First check out the code and set up the environment to run Geant4 Simulation. The procedure is exactly the same as the one described for the simulation of the whole ATLAS detector. Please refer to the ATLAS page on installation and running.

Once done and being in your run directory, comment out all the lines in the macro file RomeGeometry.mac referring to detectors other than the Muon System.

Then run just in the same way as described on the installation and running page.

Simulation of the (Barrel Sector 13) Commissioning Setup   (Using Athena Rel. ≥ 10.1.0)

First check out the code and set up the environment to run Geant4 Simulation. The procedure is similar to the one described for the simulation of the whole ATLAS detector, just use an adjusted requirements file (installing against Rel. 10.1.0). Please refer to the ATLAS page on installation and running.

Once done and being in your run directory, copy to there the following files:

• SimulationConfig.py:   jobOptions fragment, defining some global flags (number of events to be processed; name of the output file; layout)

• CommissioningConfig.py:   jobOptions fragment with specific settings for the Muon Commissioning layout

• CommissioningGeometry.mac:   G4 macro file building the geometry and sensitive detectors

• jobOptions_Geo2G4_MuonCommissioning.py:   main jobOptions file

athena.py -b SimulationConfig.py jobOptions_Geo2G4_MuonCommissioning.py CommissioningConfig.py

The job will simulate 100 single-muon events (p_T=50 GeV). The particles are generated on-the-fly using ParticleGenerator (with a projective geometry like in usual ATLAS simulation).

Examples demonstrating how to simulate cosmic-muon events in this layout will be provided shortly.

doxygen Documentation for the Muon Simulation Software

doxygen documentation of the Muon Simulation software is created at each nightly and release build. It provides information about package structures, dependencies, class structures and members, etc., and also includes more general information about the packages' functionality and purposes which may be provided in mainpage.h files.

Detailed doxygen documentation is available for the following packages and classes (latest release)

• MuonG4SD   (Muon Sensitive Detector Package)
  • CSCSensitiveDetector
  • MDTSensitiveDetector
  • RPCSensitiveDetector
  • TGCSensitiveDetector

• Muon Digitizer Packages:
  • CSC_Digitization
  • MDT_Digitization
  • RPC_Digitization
  • TGC_Digitization

• MuonDigiExample   (Muon Digit Validation Package)

Last update:   April 30, 2005,  Armin Nairz