WIP: Mechanism for Detector Alignment

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Simulation, Reconstruction and Analysis Software for the SuperNEMO Experiment

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WIP: Mechanism for Detector Alignment #3

Open drbenmorgan opened 7 years ago

drbenmorgan commented 7 years ago

As discussed in PR #1, we need a way to allow for changes to detector alignment from the "ideal" design parameters. At present, the only apparent way to modify the geometry is via hardcoded changes in the config files.

This issue is to start discussion on the use cases and subsequent requirements for such a system

drbenmorgan commented 7 years ago

Just to motivate discussion, here are a few links to tools used in HEP/LHC/Future Colliders software:

AIDA-2020 [http://aida2020.web.cern.ch/activities/wp3-advanced-software]
- @pguzowski, that mentions Chris Parkes at Manchester, so perhaps worth chatting to him?
DD4hep GitHub repo
LHCb Alignment
LMGTFY
- More towards generic detector description, but useful at it throws up quite a bit on that and also integration with things like visualisation, conditions and databases