PandoraPFA

The PandoraPFA particle flow reconstruction software has been redesigned to enable its use as a generic reconstruction package. The new design has no external dependencies and makes use of APIs to communicate with the external framework. As a proof of principle of the design, the existing algorithms for the reconstruction of a linear collider detector were embedded in the new framework and used for the CLIC CDR studies. The new design of the software will allow the PandoraPFA reconstruction to be adapted to an LHC detector. More details can be found from the PandoraPFA wiki

Contacts
Mark Thomson: thomson AT hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
John Marshall: marshall AT hep.phy.cam.ac.uk

Source code
The source code for PandoraPFA is available from svn repository, with web browser access:
https://svnsrv.desy.de/viewvc/PandoraPFANew/
https://svnsrv.desy.de/websvn/wsvn/General.PandoraPFANew?

Full doxygen documentation is available at doxygen page

The source code for PandoraPFA is available from svn repository, with web browser access:
https://svnsrv.desy.de/viewvc/PandoraPFANew/
https://svnsrv.desy.de/websvn/wsvn/General.PandoraPFANew?

Publications/Conference proceedings

  • "Particle Flow Calorimetry and the PandoraPFA Algorithm", M.A. Thomson, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A611 (2009) 25-40. arXiv:0907.3577
  • "The Pandora Software Development Kit for Particle Flow Calorimetry", J.S. Marshall and M.A. Thomson, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 396 (2012) 022034 Proceeding of CHEP 2012
  • "Performance of Particle Flow Calorimetry at CLIC", J.S. Marshall, A. Munnich and M.A. Thomson, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A700 (2013) 153-162. arXiv:1209.4039