GSTAR

• Practical benefits:

  • a versatile platform, the workhorse of the STAR simulations
  • interactive detector exploration tool, friendly UI
  • advanced scripting based on standard KUIP
  • standardized output format – integration with the reco chain
  • a few standard input formats – integration with the event generators
  • useful help pages system
  • the ease of dynamic loading of user-created and/or user-modified functions (rebuilding on-the-fly)
  • enhanced interface to the GEANT debugging tools
  • geometry persistent in the output

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