Handling of the generation of primary events in Gauss, the LHCb simulation framework

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1155-1161

  Beiyaev, I ^a,b   Brambach, T ^c   Brooke, N H ^d   Gauvh, N ^e   Corti, G ^f   Harrison, K ^g   Harrison, P F ^h   He, J ⁱ   Ilten, P H ^j   Jones, C R ^g   Lieng, M ^c   Manca, G ^f,k   Miglioranzi, S ^f   Robbe, P ^f,i   Vagnoni, V ^l   Whitehead, M ^h   Wishahi, J ^c  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f CERN   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^l INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING;

BUNCH CROSSINGS; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; GENERATOR ENGINES; MODULAR STRUCTURES; PHYSICS COMMUNITY; RUNNING CONDITIONS; SIMULATION APPLICATIONS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960308468     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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