Glossary
Acronym Expansion and Definitions
- Algorithm A self-contained process that can be scheduled by ATHENA.
- Athena The ATLAS offline software framework.
- Athena-Atlfast This version of Atlfast. An OO program written in C++.
- Atlfast Generic term for the ATLAS smear-mode Monte Carlo.
- AtlfastF Fortran version of Atlfast, used to produce the TDR
- AtlfastTemp A rewrite of Atlfast in C++ by E. Richter-Was.
- AtlfastSTL A rewrite of AtlfastF in C++ with heavy use of the STL
library by E. Richter-Was.
- Contained Object Athena base class. Classes must inherit from ContainedObject to be stored on the TES.
- HepMC An environment for storing and manipulating the output of
physics even generators.
- Makers Athena Algorithms, which read input from TES and make output objects.
- OO Object Oriented
- Pythia A program used to generate a physics event. Outputs a list
of four-vectors and other information about virtual and real particles
of the event.
- TES ATHENA transient event store.