13-17 February 2006
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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RecPack, a general reconstruction toolkit
Presented by Dr. Anselmo CERVERA VILLANUEVA
on
15 Feb 2006
from
14:36
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14:54
Description
RecPack is a general reconstruction toolkit, which can be used as a base for any
reconstruction program for a HEP detector. Its main functionalities are track
finding, fitting, propagation and matching. Track fitting can be done either via
conventional least squares methods or Kalman Filter techniques. The last, in
conjunction with the matching package, allows simultaneous track finding and fitting.
The navigation package permits the propagation of the fitted trajectories to any
surface within the detector, taking into account effects such as multiple scattering,
energy loss and inhomogeneous magnetic fields. In addition, a simple simulation
package for debugging of reconstruction algorithms is provided.
All the algorithms of RecPack are independent of the setup, which makes the toolkit
completely general. The geometry package has all necessary methods to build
complicated detectors from simple individual blocks: box, tube, sphere, rectangle,
ring, etc. In addition, any new propagation model, measurement type, volume type,
etc, can be added to the system very easily.
RecPack was born in the HARP experiment, at CERN, but it is used at the moment by
other experiments: MICE, MuScat, K2K, T2K and LHCB (trigger studies).
Several developments are going on: generalization of pattern recognition algorithms,
GUI for visualization of reconstruction processes step-by-step, etc.
Place
Location: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Address: Homi Bhabha Road
Mumbai 400005
India
Room: AG 76
Primary authors
- Dr. Anselmo CERVERA VILLANUEVA University of Geneva
- Prof. Jose Angel HERNANDO MORATA CERN
- Prof. Juan Jose GOMEZ CADENAS University of Valencia (Spain)
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