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Glossary


EICrecon
The ePIC reconstruction software, built on the JANA2 framework.
JANA2
The multithreaded event-processing framework used by EICrecon.
JEventSource
A JANA2 component that reads data model objects from an input file.
JEventProcessor
A JANA2 component that aggregates results from each event into a structured output such as a histogram or a file.
JFactory
A JANA2 component that computes new data model objects from existing ones, on demand and in parallel.
plugin
A compiled, loadable unit that bundles JANA2 components (processors, factories) to be run by eicrecon.
podio
The event data model toolkit used to read and write EIC data files.