Reference

Glossary

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EIC

Electron-Ion Collider

DD4hep

Detector Description for High Energy Physics, a toolkit that provides a single, central source of detector information for simulation and reconstruction.

eic-shell

The EIC standard software environment, a singularity/apptainer or docker container with a curated selection of software components used for EIC simulations and analysis.

compact file

An XML file holding the parameters of a detector (sub)system, interpreted at build time by a compiled detector plugin.

detector plugin

A C++ function, registered with DECLARE_DETELEMENT, that builds the volumes of a detector from the parameters supplied in the compact XML file.