The CALICE Software Framework and Operational Experience

TL;DR

The paper describes the CALICE software framework used for analyzing test beam data from calorimeters developed for a future linear collider, highlighting its structure, features, and application results.

Contribution

It presents the design, features, and operational experience of the CALICE software framework for calorimeter data analysis at a linear collider.

Findings

Successful application to test beam data

Compatibility with linear collider software standards

Effective data reconstruction and simulation

Abstract

The CALICE collaboration is developing calorimeters for a future linear collider, and has collected a large amount of physics data during test beam efforts. For the analysis of these data, standard software available for linear collider detector studies is applied. This software provides reconstruction of raw data, simulation, digitization and data management, which is based on grid tools. The data format for analysis is compatible with the general linear collider software. Moreover, existing frameworks such as Marlin are employed for the CALICE software needs. The structure and features of the software framework are reported here as well as results from the application of this software to test beam data.