AcerDET-2.0: a particle level fast simulation and reconstruction package for phenomenological studies on high p_T physics at LHC

TL;DR

AcerDET-2.0 is a C++ implementation of a fast simulation and reconstruction package for high p_T physics at LHC, providing simplified detector effects for phenomenological studies.

Contribution

This paper introduces a new C++ version of AcerDET, enabling easier integration and use for high p_T physics studies at LHC and future colliders.

Findings

Provides reconstructed objects from particle lists for LHC physics

Simplifies detector effects for rapid phenomenological analysis

Useful for feasibility studies at LHC and ppFCC

Abstract

The fortran version of the AcerDET package has been published in [1], and used in the multiple publications on the predictions for physics at LHC. The package provides, starting from list of particles in the event, the list of reconstructed jets, isolated electrons, muons, photons and reconstructed missing transverse energy. The AcerDET represents a simplified version of the package called ATLFAST, used since several years within ATLAS Collaboration. In the fast simulation implemented in AcerDET, some functionalities of ATLFAST are absent, but the most crucial detector effects are implemented and the parametrisations are largely simplified. Therefore it is not representing details neither of ATLAS nor CMS detectors. This short paper documents a new C++ implementation of the same algorithms as used in [1]. We believe that the package can be well adequate for some feasibility studies of the high p_T physics at LHC and at planned ppFCC. The further evolution of this code is planned. [1] E. Richter-Was, AcerDET: A Particle level fast simulation and reconstruction package for phenomenological studies on high p_T physics at LHC , hep-ph/0207355.