Snowmass Energy Frontier Simulations
hep-ex
/ Authors
Jacob Anderson, Aram Avetisyan, Raymond Brock, Sergei Chekanov, Timothy Cohen, Nitish Dhingra, James Dolen, James Hirschauer, Kiel Howe, Ashutosh Kotwal
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Tom LeCompte, Sudhir Malik, Patricia Mcbride, Kalanand Mishra, Meenakshi Narain, Jim Olsen, Sanjay Padhi, Michael E. Peskin, John Stupak, Jay G. Wacker
/ Abstract
This document describes the simulation framework used in the Snowmass Energy Frontier studies for future Hadron Colliders. An overview of event generation with {\sc Madgraph}5 along with parton shower and hadronization with {\sc Pythia}6 is followed by a detailed description of pile-up and detector simulation with {\sc Delphes}3. Details of event generation are included in a companion paper cited within this paper. The input parametrization is chosen to reflect the best object performance expected from the future ATLAS and CMS experiments; this is referred to as the "Combined Snowmass Detector". We perform simulations of $pp$ interactions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}=$ 14, 33, and 100 TeV with 0, 50, and 140 additional $pp$ pile-up interactions. The object performance with multi-TeV $pp$ collisions are studied for the first time using large pile-up interactions.