13–17 Feb 2006
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Europe/Zurich timezone

COCOA: General purpose software for simulation and reconstruction of optical alignment systems

15 Feb 2006, 17:30
18m
AG 76 (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

AG 76

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Homi Bhabha Road Mumbai 400005 India
oral presentation Event processing applications Event Processing Applications

Speaker

Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

Description

We describe a C++ software that is able to reconstruct the positions, angular orientations and internal optical parameters of any optical system described by a seamless combination of many different types of optical objects. The program also handles the propagation of uncertainties, what makes it very useful to simulate the system in the design phase. The software is currently in use by the four optical alignment systems of CMS and it is integrated in the CMS framework, so that it can read the geometry description from simple text files or the CMS XML format and the input and output data from text files or an Oracle database.

Primary author

Pedro Arce (Cent.de Investigac.Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnol. (CIEMAT))

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