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Description
The GeoModel toolkit is an open-source suite of standalone tools that empowers the user with lightweight tools to describe, visualize, test, and debug detector descriptions and geometries for HEP standalone studies and experiments. GeoModel has been designed with independence and responsiveness in mind and offers a development environment free of other large HEP tools and frameworks, and with a very quick development cycle. With very few and lightweight dependencies, GeoModel is easy to install on all systems, in a modular way; and pre-compiled binaries are provided for the major platforms, for a quick and easy installation. Coded entirely in C++, GeoModel offers the user tools to describe geometries inside C++ code or in external XML files, create persistent representation with a low disk footprint and interactively visualize and inspect the geometry in a 3D view. It also offers a plugin mechanism and an optional Geant4 application to simulate the described geometry in a standalone environment. In this contribution, we describe all the available tools, with a focus on the latest additions, which provide users with more visualization, debug, and simulation tools.
Significance
GeoModel is a tool-suite of standalone tools to describe, visualize, store and debug geometries and detector descriptions. Much effort has been put in designing it with a minimal set of dependencies, and free of large HEP tools and frameworks, and that lets users develop new geometries on all platforms with a very quick dev cycle.
During the last few years, the new GeoModel tool suite has been the object of dedicated efforts, which let it grow from a small set of packages to a full-featured, standalone tool suite. GeoModel is a very active and well-supported project, and inspection and debugging tools are continuously added to help users inspect and test their geometries.
GeoModel can be used by many HEP experiments to design and develop their geometries in a lightweight and easy way. Especially the new experiments, which are free from pre-conceived ideas and pre-existing frameworks and they can choose the best tools for their use-cases. And, for such, we would like to spread the word about this new tool-suite.
References
During the last few years, the new GeoModel tool suite has grown to a full-featured tool-suite, and we have presented the new tools and packages at the major HEP conferences:
- vCHEP 2021: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202125103007
- CHEP 2019: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024502029
- CHEP 2018: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201921402035
- ACAT 2017: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1085/3/032035
- CHEP 2016: https://inspirehep.net/literature/1638122
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