LArCustomSolid Extension

This repository contains the LArCustomSolid Extension that describe the ATLAS LAr EMEC custom shape. The LAr EMEC custom shape extension is build starting from a copy of the corresponding code in the Athena repository.

How to build the LArCustomSolid Extension

The LArCustomSolid Extension depends on GeoModel, so you need to install first GeoModel from this repository.

git clone https://gitlab.cern.ch/SolidExtensions/LArCustomSolidExtension.git
cd LArCustomSolidExtension
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path_to_GeoModel_install_dir>
make -j
make install

This will produce a LArCustomSolidExtension.so/dylib library that can be used to build the EMEC detector.

How to update the LArCustomSolid Extension

To keep the code of the LArCustomSolid Extention synchronized with the latest available version in the Athena repository, just run the autonomous-lar.sh script.