LiC Detector Toy - Tracking detector optimization with fast simulation and its application to the ILD design

TL;DR

The LiC Detector Toy is a fast simulation tool designed to optimize tracking detector layouts, including geometry and materials, and has been applied to improve the ILD detector design.

Contribution

It introduces a MATLAB-based fast simulation tool with advanced features for detector layout optimization, including complex geometries and an open-source OCTAVE version.

Findings

Optimized the ILD silicon tracker layout.

Enhanced simulation accuracy for complex geometries.

Provided flexible data analysis and visualization.

Abstract

The "LiC Detector Toy" is a fast single-track simulation and reconstruction tool, aiming at the optimization of tracking detector design, i.e. geometric layout and material budgets. Its implementation is based on the MATLAB system. Improvements over the last year include correct handling of complex forward regions (arbitrary mixture of cylindrical and plane surfaces), enhanced detector description, flexible data presentation of results (e.g. fitted track resolutions and impact parameters), and support by an integrated GUI. In addition a non-GUI version running under open-source OCTAVE has been implemented. The tool has recently been used for fixing the "reference design" layout of the silicon tracker (SIT, SET and FTD) of the ILD detector concept.