Author: Domin.nosp@m.ique.nosp@m..Tard.nosp@m.if@c.nosp@m.ern.c.nosp@m.h

Overview

This package is used to simulate the electronics response of the 8 ATLAS Beam Conditions Monitor (BCM) modules. The GEANT4 BCM hit collection(s) is/are first retrieved from the simulation store. For each hit in the collection, a pulse whose height is linearly correlated with the energy deposit is added to the corresponding channel waveform, which has been pre-filled with Gaussian noise. This is then split into two parts, which correspond to high- and low-gain channels. A time-over-threshold is used to digitize the analog pulses, and the positions and widths of the first two digital pulses in each channel are recorded in a raw data object. The 16 RDOs are packed into a container which is then saved to the output store.