Description
The FTX Software (SFT) group is very actively involved in the Key4hep project, which aims to develop common software for future experiments. While the main target are future collider projects, also smaller experiments can profit from these efforts by using the Key4hep software stack. One of these experiments is the planned Laser und XFEL Experiment (LUXE) at DESY.
This summerstudent project aims at investigating ways of further integrating the LUXE and Key4hep software stacks. A special focus in this case will be on the silicon based positron tracker of LUXE, where detector occupancies varying by orders of magnitude provide a challenging simulation and reconstruction environment. Several things could be tackled in this project; benchmarking existing approaches in different experimental conditions, and potentially improving them afterwards, investigating possible new approaches for tackling the challenges that come with extreme occupancies but also developing tools to facilitate integrating new approaches into the larger software ecosystem. The choice of the task in the end depends on the interests of the student. This is an ideal opportunity to peek behind the curtain of what is involved in an experiment on the software side on the still accessible scale of LUXE.
Special Qualifications:
Experience in programming with either C++ or python is required. Basic knowledge of statistics and some experience in the python scientific libraries (or ROOT) is definitely useful but not strictly necessary.
| Field | B2: Data processing (software-oriented) |
|---|---|
| DESY Place | Hamburg |
| DESY Division | FH |
| DESY Group | FTX |
