Speaker
Nikiforos Nikiforou
(CERN)
Description
The detector description is an essential component that is used to analyze data
resulting from particle collisions in high energy physics experiments.
We will present a generic detector description toolkit and describe the guiding
requirements and the architectural design as well as the main implementation choices.
The toolkit is reusing and combining already existing components
and elements from the ROOT geometry package and the Geant4 toolkit to offer
a complete and coherent detector description solution aimed to solve
all typical problems during the entire experiment life-cycle. All detector description
related issues from data processing application required during the experiment
life-cyle will be addressed.
The design is strongly driven by easy of use; developers of detector descriptions
and applications using them should provide minimal information and minimal specific
code to achieve the desired result.
We like to use the opportunity to also report difficulties combining the
ROOT geometry package and the Geant4 toolkit to a coherent detector description
when different philosophies or contentions appeared.
Primary author
Markus Frank
(CERN)
Co-authors
Andre Sailer
(CERN)
Frank-Dieter Gaede
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Hamburg and Zeuthen (DE))
Marko Petric
(CERN)
Nikiforos Nikiforou
(CERN)
