21-23 August 2012
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Development of GEANT4 based water Cherenkov detector simulation, WCSim

23 Aug 2012, 14:25
25m
Lecture Hall (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo)

Lecture Hall

Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo

5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa city, Chiba, 277-8583 JAPAN

Speaker

Prof. Chris Walter (Duke University)

Description

WCSim is a Geant4 based water Cherenkov detector simulation originally developed to test the physics potential of a 1 kton water detector located 2 km away from the T2K beam target. Recently, its code has been updated to accommodate the needs of the LBNE water Cherenkov detector option by allowing the simulation of large cylindrical tank configurations with an adjustable number of PMTs. Moreover, the optical properties have been tuned at about the 3% level to the Geant3 based Super-Kamiokande simulation that is finely tuned to data. I will describe WCSim and its interface to the Super-K tool suite.

Primary author

Prof. Chris Walter (Duke University)

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