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General
What is SLIC?
SLIC stands for "Simulator for the Linear Collider". It is a full simulation package that uses the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit to simulate the passage of particles through the detector. SLIC outputs LCIO files that can be analysed using a variety of language bindings, including Java, C++, FORTRAN, and Python. In the US community, the most popular tools to use for analysis of LCIO files are JAS3 with the org.lcsim package. SLIC uses a separate backend for the input of detector data called Linear Collider Detector Description (LCDD), which itself is based on the GDML project from CERN.
Who are the primary maintainers of ILC simulations software in the US?
Jeremy McCormick <jeremym@slac.stanford.edu> is the primary maintainer of the SLIC simulation package. Much work has also been done by Ron Cassell <cassell@slac.stanford.edu> to verify and debug the LCIO output files. The handling of MCParticles in SLIC was based on earlier work by Ron from a package called Linear Collider Simulator (LCS).
What other simulation packages exist besides SLIC?
Feedback
Is there an ILC detector simulation forum?
How can I file a bug report if I find bugs in LCDD or SLIC or want to request a feature?
Installation
How do I build SLIC and the packages it depends on from scratch?
What runtime dependencies does SLIC have?
Running SLIC
How do I run the simulator?
How can I check on the progress of my SLIC job?
How do I run SLIC on a batch system such as LSF?
How can I make SLIC look for the XML schemas in a local directory?
How can I automatically set the name of the LCIO file?
How can I automatically delete an existing LCIO file?
How do I skip events in a StdHep file?
How can I quickly browse through the output of SLIC?
LCIO
What is LCIO?
Are there LCIO files available that I can use to get started with my analysis?
How do I request new LCIO files?
Geometry with GDML and LCDD
What is GDML?
What is LCDD?
How does the simulator read the detector geometry?
How do I dump the current Geant4 geometry to GDML?
How can I obtain the LCDD files for compact detectors?
Compact Detector Description
What is LCDetectors and how do I use it?
Where is the standard location for compact XML files?
How do I define constants?
How do I define a new material to use in the simulation?
How do I set physics limits?
How do I set the range cut?
How do I create my own detector from the compact description?
How do I make org.lcsim find my custom detector in JAS3?
LCPhys
What is LCPhys?
Who is the maintainer of LCPhys?
Are there plots available of LCPhys physics results?
