Welcome to the PHENIX Vanderbilt Simulation Group web page. Our group coordinated PHENIX simulation development from 1992 to 2006, and this site contains some of the simulation documentation written during that time. In January 2007 Hugo Pereira took charge of simulation coordination. It is anticipated that simulation documentation will be centralized in a user-edited Wikipedia system in the near future. For now we at Vanderbilt are maintaining this site during the transition period.

Originally simulation documentation was provided in a hard copy manual written in Latex source code. You can see the last version of that manual in WWW form at the 1999 PISA Manual, where PISA is an acronym for Phenix Integrated Simulation Application. While this 1999 manual contains useful details about the structure of PISA, the manual is obsolete in many sections. After 1999, documentation was hung off dedicated WWW pages supported by a small group of people. Because of the difficulty of keeping the documentation completely up to date, it was decided 2006 to go to a user-supported, user-edited documentation system based on the wikipedia technology.

The purpose of this WWW site is to provide the PHENIX computing community with reference to previously generated simulation documentation. You can find this documentation in the Simulation and the Tutorial menu buttons on the left panel of this page.

The Vanderbilt Simulation group also has coordinated Simulation Projects which generate simulation events required for specific physics topics. We will continue to fulfill this role in PHENIX. People may request those through the RunServer button in the left panel of this page. This link will provided project details and output files. (The RunServer system is presently being upgraded).

Since this is a service, any input and suggestions are welcomed and your patience and forbearance will always be much appreciated.