1. Hector : A fast multi-purpose simulator for particle propagation X. Rouby & J. de Favereau & K. Piotrzkowski - http://www.fynu.ucl.ac.be/hector.html http://www.fynu.ucl.ac.be/hector.html December 11th

2. Implementation Validation with MAD Some Physics Prospects Contents

3. Linear behaviour -> matrix representation of the transport : Where : X is the phase-space vector of the particle M i are the matrices associated to the magnets Rem : As considered energy losses are not negligible, we introduce an energy dependence of M i as a correction to linearity Implementation (I)

4. Matrix structure : Matrix example : Quadrupole (de)focusing bending Implementation (II)

5. Input needed : ● k i ● effective field length ● magnet position ● magnet aperture All directly found in the LHC tables ! Implementation (III)

6. Implementation (IV) The algorithm : The 4-vector can be specified : - completely (from generator) - by choosing energy loss and Q² of emitted object

7. The LHC beams (on the right of CMS) : Implementation ( V )

8. Performances : ~ 3.5 µs particle -1 optical element -1 -> ~10 -3 s / CMS event Implementation (VI)

9. Implementation (VII) Aperture : geometrical aperture Rectellipse shape in out enlarged area Tests whether the particles hit the physical border of the vacuum tube

10. Validation (I) ~ beam transverse size

11. Validation (II) Unveils the effect of the crossing angle and the kickers

12. Direct physics output (I) ● Just take some protons, from LHC beam 1 ● Propagate them to your favourite Roman pot detector ● Plot the x,y,x',y' in the transverse plane

13. Direct physics output (II) RP acceptances (420m) beam 1

14. Direct physics output (II) MAD-X (from TOTEM Note 05-2)Hector Comparing to MAD-X

15. Direct physics output (V) Diffractive physics : pp pX (PYTHIA inside) Fluencies :

16. Direct physics output (VI) Chromaticity grid : where is your proton given its energy/angle ? ● Choose a proton, with a given energy loss and initial angle ● Propagate it to your 2 roman pots. ● Measure x,x' [100 ; 1000] GeV[10 ; 100] GeV Remember the acceptances !

17. Reconstruction (I) From linearity : We should solve for x 0, x 0 ', E (with only 2 equations) As physics won't change x 0, we choose to neglect a s and α s. This method leads to : where b 1 and b 2 are the b parameters for the two detectors. Angle compensation method

18. Reconstruction (II) Reconstructed variables : energy loss ( σ E vs Q² and E ) Q² = -1 GeV² σ E σ E (GeV) Detector resolution 5 µm 30 µm Q² = -0.01 GeV² E (GeV) Q² (GeV²) 4 GeV

19. Reconstruction (III) Reconstructed variables : Q² E (GeV) σ Q² (GeV²) Detector resolution 5 µm 30 µm

20. Work-in-progress Recent achievements : ● Non-proton particles propagation (mass, charge) ● Effect of the misalignment of magnets (shift/tilt) In progress : ● Integration into FAMOS ● Integration into CMSSW by the Protvino working group

21. Andrey Kuznetsov (with Sasha Zhokin ) Kirill Datsko HECTOR/FAMOS integration FastHector_0_0_1 is reachable by CVS (see HOWTO on www.cern.ch/kdatsko) HECTOR/CMSSW integration Start was done. Class for HECTOR/FAMOS communication is created. Delay till the January. RP420/CMSSW integration Big progress Work is close to finish Vladimir Burtovoy (with Andrey Sobol ) HECTOR/MAD comparison Development/improvement of forward protons reconstruction in RPs (220 and 420) Work is in progress. Acceptance/resolution were tested. Igor Azhgirey Perso n ResponsibilityResult s MARS/CMSSW integration Secondary beam-halo at 420m was generated (can be installed to FAMOS/HECTOR). Delay till March. Andrey Sobol (Nebraska University) Group coordinator Integration

22. Material : Official website : http://www.fynu.ucl.ac.be/hector.html You will find there : Hector sources User Manual / Code documentation (Doxygen) Link to official forum (please post there your questions/comments) Useful links Soon : note draft

23. Back-up slides 1) LHC beams at ATLAS 2-3) RP acceptance 4-5) Implementation details

24. Implementation (VII) Same for ATLAS :

25. Direct physics output (II) Which protons are detected ? RP acceptances (220m) : Forbidden by kinematics

26. Direct physics output (III) RP acceptances (420m) beam 2

27. B around its central value : Taking only dipolar (k 0 ) and quadrupolar (k 1 ) terms : k 0 = 1/R k 1 = k The solutions x(s), x'(s), y(s), y'(s) can be expressed (if Δp << p) as a linear combination of the initial phase-space vector x 0, x' 0, y 0, y' 0 Implementation (I)