Speaker
Dr
Valeri FINE
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
Description
This talk presents an overview of the main components of a unique set of tools, in
use in the STAR experiment, born from the fusion of two advanced technologies: the
ROOT framework and libraries and the Qt GUI and event handling package.
Together, they allow creating software packages and help resolving complex
data-analysis or visualization problems, enhance computer simulation or help develop
geometry models demonstrating that it is not only feasible but beneficial to
integrate and benefit from the best of each technology.
The core library and system has been under development for the last 4 years and has
solidified and made into concrete use through several applications for the STAR
experiment at BNL as well as ROOT plugins. As a result, STAR has been empowered with
stable interactive applications for online control and offline data-analysis built on
top of the STAR ROOT-based framework and this, while preserving the initial software
components in a non disruptive manner. In fact, many components are not STAR specific
and can be used elsewhere and used in the context of “user custom filters”, “detector
geometry” components or even various 3D views for the High Energy and Nuclear Physics
events.
The portion of the project is already included in the official ROOT distribution and
part of LCG binary distribution of the ROOT package for RHIC and LHC experiments.
In full it is available from http://root.bnl.gov Web site.
Primary authors
Dr
Jerome LAURET
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
Dr
Valeri FINE
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
Mr
Victor Perevoztchikov
(BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY)
