Hector, a fast simulator for the transport of particles in beamlines

Understand

Computing the trajectories of particles in generic beamlines is an important ingredient of experimental particle physics, in particular regarding near-beam detectors.

• A new tool, Hector, has been built for such calculations, using the transfer matrix approach and energy corrections.
• The limiting aperture effects are also taken into account.
• As an illustration, the tool was used to simulate the LHC beamlines, in particular around the high luminosity interaction points (IPs), and validated with results of the Mad-X simulator.