Geometry Development with DD4hep

An ePIC tutorial on developing detector geometry with the DD4hep toolkit: where the ePIC geometry lives in eic-shell, how a geometry description is structured, how to view it, and how to modify or add to it by writing detector plugins.

This lesson is built with The Carpentries Workbench.

Building the lesson locally

The lesson is rendered with the Workbench Docker image (no local R installation needed). A Makefile wraps the commands:

make preview   # build the site into site/docs/
make serve     # serve site/docs/ at http://localhost:4321
make clean     # drop the build cache

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! Please familiarize yourself with our Contribution Guide. For the Workbench Markdown syntax (callouts, challenges, etc.) see the sandpaper documentation.

Maintainer(s)

Current maintainers of this lesson are

• Simon Gardner, @simonge, simon.gardner@glasgow.ac.uk
• Wouter Deconinck, @wdconinc, wouter.deconinck@umanitoba.ca

Citation

To cite this lesson, please consult the CITATION.cff file.