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Why are detector simulations needed?
ILC Detector simulations are needed to
- optimize full detector designs for physics performance on benchmark processes
- optimize the designs of subsystems , and subdetectors
- compare proposed detector technologies with each other (in concert with test beam)
- calorimeter examples - RPC, GEM, scintillator, Silicon, lead tungstate, hybrid
- compare different full detector designs
- for comparing compare Monte Carlo simulations results with test beam results to better understand bothfor Geant4 physics list validation
- compare, test, and debug reconstruction and analysis algorithms and other software
- understand the role of dead materials in affecting the overall detector performance
- model the effects of hardware inefficiencies such as cross-talk, dead cells, etc.
- understand the effects of backgrounds on detector performance
- establish an a software infrastructure for the actual detector experiment(s)
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