CompF2: Theoretical Calculations and Simulation

CompF2 activities have paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new timeline is explained here.

Before the decision to pause, we (the conveners) were working on a proposal for a survey to collect information to transform requirements of near-future and far-future physics programs into S&C effort and R&D. Given that the new timeline plans for the first draft of the topical group reports to be delivered AFTER the white papers submission deadline, and not before as was the case previous to the pause, we have decided to morph the survey into a list of questions we will be encouraging authors to address in their papers. We are working on this list of questions right now and welcome comments and suggestions on a first draft available here.

We will also be consulting domain contact people to discuss ideas about how to hit the road running immediately after the pause. Of course, everyone is welcome to contact us directly on this or any other matter.

For practical purposes, group activities are divided into six subdomains: cosmic calculations, accelerator modeling, beam and detector simulation, physics generators, perturbative calculations, and lattice QCD. During the first CompF2, volunteers were identify to serve as contact people for each sub-domain. These volunteers are responsible for the self-organization of each sub-domain and for establishing a process to contribute a section of the CompF2 report.

CompF2 conveners and sub-domain contact people can be reached via email (see above).

Meetings: CompF2 meets on Fridays 1-3 pm (Pacific), 2-4 pm (Central), 3-5 (Easter) upon necessity. Links to past and future meetings are available here.

Communication: on meetings, deadlines, group activity is done via email. Please subscribe to: [email protected] (Instructions)

Each sub-domain is free to establish its own means of communication. Some have their own websites and mailing lists:

• Accelerator Simulation
  • Website
  • Mailing List
• Detector simulation
  • Mailing List. (Instructions to subscribe)

Deadline Reminders

The Computational Frontier has established a modified time schedule which is consistent with a participative process allowing white paper drafts to be used as input to the first frontier report draft. CompF2 has also established internal deadlines consistent with the former.

• Remark: Reason to separate “experimental algorithm parallelization” from “theoretical calculations and simulations”
  • See explanation above in the “Experimental Algorithm Parallelization” working group
• Functional areas
  • Theoretical calculations (high-order perturbative calculations and lattice field theory)
  • Detector simulations (Geant, … )
  • Particle accelerator modelings (https://snowmass-compf2-accbeammodel.github.io/)
  • Event generators
  • Cosmic frontier simulations
  • Utilization of CPU, accelerator hardware and what comes next in 5-10 years
• Mandate
  • Describe theoretical calculations, detector simulations, accelerator modelings, event generators that are or will be used by the stakeholders
  • What are the processing resource needed to execute theoretical calculations and simulations
  • What is the technology evolution of processing resources?
    • Coordinate with theoretical calculations and simulations working group
  • How will stakeholders be able to design and write physics algorithms for these processing resources?
    • Coordinate with theoretical calculations and simulations working group
  • How can coding standards and performance standards be used?
    • Coordinate with theoretical calculations and simulations working group, and Collaboration and Ecosystem working group
  • How are the solutions used by the community embedded derived from solutions from industry/other science domains
    • Connections with ML (accelerating calculations, more efficient phase space sampling, lattice QCD, …)

Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topical group. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.