Improving LbMCSubmit - CERN Summer Student Project Report

I present my work during the CERN Summer Student Programme 2022. I have contributed to LbMCSubmit, a program which simplifies the process of submitting simulation production requests at LHCb. My work can be divided into two main parts: adding support for non-proton-proton (pp) collisions in LbMCSubmit, and adding an interface between LbMCSubmit and Professor, a program used for parameter tuning in event generators. By adding support for non-pp collisions in LbMCSubmit and contributing to other improvements, it is now possible to use LbMCSubmit for more use cases, thereby making it ready for wide-spread use within LHCb. By developing programs that integrates Professor with LbMCSubmit, it is now easier to perform tuning, as much of the complexity of Professor abstracted away, while the simulation speed is improved as the MC simulations run on the grid.