Physics Lists and Validation tools: Workplan 2018

Ongoing activities

  • Physics Lists
  • Documentation of physics lists(~All)
  • Maintain physics contructors and physics lists, including support (~All)
  • Develop and maintain physics list level test (test23) and monitor model performance (Julia)
  • Physics List Validation Using Beam Simulation (Kihyeon, Soonwook)
  • Validation tools
  • Collecting and evaluate experimental datasets (Hans, Julia, Krzysztof, Robert, with input from others)
  • Support for changing of model parameters (Hans, Julia, Krzysztof, Robert)
  • Release, candidate and reference tag testing for physics performance on Grid (Alberto, Dmitri, Witold)
  • maintenance & developments for geant-val database and web interface (Dmitri)

Development Items

  • Physics Lists
  • Define MT cleanup strategy for builders and physics processes in MT mode (missing MP)
  • Recomendation / Documentation of physics lists for specific use cases ( ~ All)
  • Documentation of physics lists examples ( Alex, in collab. with documenation wg.)
  • complete automated physics list documentation and integrate in web documenation (Dennis, Alex, Gunter)
  • Physics lists factories
    • Evaulate the merging existing factory G4GenericPhysicsList and new G4alt::G4PhysListFactory (Robert H.)
    • Complete standalone PLFactory tests in test38 - (Robert H.)
  • Using test23, explore various compositions of physics lists and/or monitor performance of existing production or experimental physics lists, with focus to intersity frontier experiments, including beamline simulation projects (e.g. neutrino flux or Mu2e beamline) (Julia)
    • production of hadron from the first hadronic inelastic interaction 
    • analysis of secondary interactions (e.g. in the primary target) and benchmarking vs relevant thick target data once such data are explored and added 
  • Evaluate possibility to eliminate template mechanism in physics lists, implement if possible. (Gunter)
  • produce graphs showing overlap of models (currently done by hand), very useful as a simple graph for new users (missing MP)
  • Create set-up to run regression testing at process level (missing MPI)
  • Validation tools
  • DoSSiER Database and web application (Hans with feedback from collaborators)
    • allow for data exchange between databases at FNAL and CERN (Hans, Dmitri, Andrea)
    • enable SSO authentication ( Hans & Witold)
    • upload monthly grid results to DoSSiER (Dmitri, Witold)
    • extend set of experimental data used in validation (all…)
    • Complete automated upload of results to DoSSiER (Hans, Julia)
  • develop and maintain Artg4tk framework to study experimental observables (Hans)
  • Create a testing system to complete grid validation with non-calorimetric system(Andrea)