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AtlFast3: The Next Generation of Fast Simulation in ATLAS

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • Application and Research Center for Advanced Studies
  • Istanbul Aydin University
  • iThemba Labs
  • Department of Physics
  • University of South Africa
  • Cadi Ayyad University
  • Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
  • New York University Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates University
  • University of Sharjah
  • Universidad de La Serena
  • CERN
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • University of Toronto
  • Brandeis University
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Bogazici University
  • Istanbul University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • IFT-UAM/CSIC
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • German Electron Synchrotron
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Columbia University

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Abstract

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has a broad physics programme ranging from precision measurements to direct searches for new particles and new interactions, requiring ever larger and ever more accurate datasets of simulated Monte Carlo events. Detector simulation with Geant4 is accurate but requires significant CPU resources. Over the past decade, ATLAS has developed and utilized tools that replace the most CPU-intensive component of the simulation—the calorimeter shower simulation—with faster simulation methods. Here, AtlFast3, the next generation of high-accuracy fast simulation in ATLAS, is introduced. AtlFast3 combines parameterized approaches with machine-learning techniques and is deployed to meet current and future computing challenges, and simulation needs of the ATLAS experiment. With highly accurate performance and significantly improved modelling of substructure within jets, AtlFast3 can simulate large numbers of events for a wide range of physics processes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7
JournalComputing and Software for Big Science
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

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