Description

Falcon is an ultra-fast non-parametric detector simulation package that automatically abstracts detector response, usually done by hand in fast-simulators used by particle physics experiments. Falcon uses KDTrees to build a fast lookup table to map events at the parton shower level to events at the reconstruction level as described in the following paper

Task ideas

• Design new Build/Simulator classes integrated with ROOT for training and testing
• Create a plugin for simpler event input from Delphes
• Create a purely C++ implementation (currently Falcon is written in python and c++)
• Parallelization and timing studies with the purely C++ implementation

Expected results

• Plugin for faster event input
• Standalone parallelized C++ prototype of Falcon
• Precise timing studies on several benchmark processes

Requirements

Intermediate skills in C/C++, interest in detector simulation.

Mentors

• Harrison Prosper
• Sergei Gleyzer
• Omar Zapata

Links

• http://root.cern

Corresponding Project

• FALCON

Participating Organizations

• FSU
• UFlorida
• UdeA

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