Key Points

Introduction

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• EICrecon is the reconstruction piece of ePIC software.

Work Environment for ePIC Reconstruction Software

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• Use eicrecon executable to run reconstruction on a podio input file and to create podio output file.

Creating a plugin to make custom histograms/trees

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• Plugins can be used to generate custom histograms by attaching directly to the reconstruction process.
• Plugins can be used for monitoring or custom analysis.

Creating or modifying a JANA factory in order to implement a reconstruction algorithm

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• Create a factory for reconstructing single subdetector data or for global reconstruction.

Contributing code changes to the EICrecon repository

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• Write code in a style consistent with the rest of the repository.
• Contributions should be made through the GitHub Pull Request mechanism.