DD4hep a community driven detector description for HEP

¹ DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
² CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

^* e-mail: frank.gaede@desy.de
^** e-mail: markus.frank@cern.ch
^*** e-mail: marko.petric@cern.ch
^**** e-mail: andre.sailer@cern.ch

Published online: 16 November 2020

Abstract

Detector description is an essential component in simulation, reconstruction and analysis of data resulting from particle collisions in high energy physics experiments and for the detector development studies for future experiments. Current detector description implementations of running experiments are mostly specific implementations. DD4hep [1] is an open source toolkit created in 2012 to serve as a generic detector description solution. The main motivation behind DD4hep is to provide the community with an integrated solution for all these stages and address detector description in a broad sense, including the geometry and the materials used in the device, and additional parameters describing e.g. the detection techniques, constants required for alignment and calibration, description of the readout structures and conditions data. In these proceedings, we will give an overview of the project and discuss recent developments in DD4hep as well as showcase adaptions of the framework by LHC and upcoming accelerator projects together with the road map of future developments.