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The architecture of MEG simulation and analysis software

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MEG ( \( \mu^{+}_{}\) \( \rightarrow\) e + \( \gamma\) is an experiment dedicated to the search for the \( \mu^{+}_{}\) \( \rightarrow\) e + \( \gamma\) decay that is strongly suppressed in the Standard Model, but allowed in many alternative models and therefore very sensitive to new physics. The offline software is based on two frameworks. The first is REM in FORTRAN 77, which is used for event generation and the detector simulation package GEM. The other is ROME in C++, used for the readout electronics simulation Bartender and for the reconstruction and analysis program Analyzer. Event display in the simulation is based on GEANT3 graphic libraries and in the reconstruction on ROOT graphic libraries. Data are stored in different formats at various stages of the processing. The frameworks include utilities for I/O, database access and format conversion transparent to the user.

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  1. INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    P. W. Cattaneo

  2. ICEPP, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan

    R. Sawada

  3. INFN, Department of Physics of the University of Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127, Pisa, Italy

    F. Cei

  4. KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan

    S. Yamada

  5. Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, CH-5232, Villigen, Switzerland

    M. Schneebeli

  6. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    M. Schneebeli

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Cattaneo, P.W., Sawada, R., Cei, F. et al. The architecture of MEG simulation and analysis software. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 126, 60 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2011-11060-6

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