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The Light Dark Matter eXperiment simulation and reconstruction framework.
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Add simulation level "trigger filter" #1493

Open tvami opened 2 weeks ago

tvami commented 2 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

From 1M inclusive events about 100 will pass the trigger, if we are interested in looking at inclusive events after trigger we really need a lot of stats.

Describe the solution you'd like

We discussed at today's software meeting the possibility of having a filter that would enhance the triggering efficiency. This would mean to add the energy in the ECAL volume and if it's above a threshold the event would be not saved. OTOH we didnt come up with a concrete solution, so this issue serves also as a planning board.

Describe alternatives you've considered

If the filter is computationally too expensive it makes sense to just generate much bigger amounts of inclusive events and trigger skim

Additional context

This would be relevant for several projects: tracking studies, multielectron studies, rare physics events checks (e.g. WABs)