ePIC Keywords

Use of keywords in ePIC

The keywords assigned to a variety of materials (which can inclusde papers, slides, images, computer code and software etc) play a crucial role in integration of the information systems used in ePIC. This page serves as the main information point regarding management of keywords. Proposals for creation of new words should be sent to the leadership of the Collaboration. The tables below contain a list of both accepted and proposed keywords. When uploding materials to the Collaboration Document Management Database (Zenodo) it is strongly recommended to assign some of the approved and relevant keywords to the uploads.

Keyword creation guidelines

Use simple, lowercase words for all keywords in internal documents and Zenodo queries. Avoid using dashes (-) and underscores (_) unless they clearly improve readability. Decimal numbers may be used when necessary. This approach helps reduce errors when typing keywords and ensures consistency across documents and systems.

Conferences

Please note that conference keywords (tags) are presented on a dedicated conference page with links to the conferences’ websites.
Some of the keywords are posted here before the correponding materials are uploaded to Zenodo, which means not every query will return results.

Keyword	Description
ana_note	Analysis Note
charter	The ePIC charter
draft	Designates a draft of the document
epic-eic	Attributed to ePIC
image	An image or a collection of images
logo	The ePIC logo collection
policy	One of the ePIC policy documents
pretdr	preTDR
requirements	Documents containing various requirements
tech_note	Technical Note

Detector keywords

Keyword	Description
bic	BIC DSC activities
calorimetry	ePIC calorimetry
coordinate	Coordinate System
detector	Related to the ePIC detectors as a whole
drich	dRICH DSC activities
emcal	Related to the calorimter CC WG, EM calorimetry
fb	Related to the far detector CC WG, far backward
ff	Rrelated to the far detector CC WG, far forward
hcal	Related to the calorimter CC WG, H calorimetry
hpdirc	hpDIRC DSC activities
lfhcal	LFHCAL DSC activities
lumhps	Luminosity system activities, pair spectrometers
luminosity	Luminosity system activities
pfrich	pfRICH DSC activities
pid	Related to the PID CC WG
svt	SVT DSC activities
tof	ToF DSC activities
tracking	Related to the tracking CC WG
zdc	ZDC activities

Software keywords

Keyword	Description
ai	Artificial Intelligence
analysis	Physics Analysis of the collected data
ci	Continuous Integration
container	Related to the containerization techniques, a running instance of an image
digitization	The process of converting information from analog to digital form
docker	Related to the Docker containerization platform
echelon0	The DAQ-level data processing in ePIC
echelon1	Related to the model of data distribution and processing in ePIC
echelon2	Related to the model of data distribution and processing in ePIC
fastsim	Fast simulations and related techniques
geometry	Related to the geometrical properties and configuration of an apparatus/hardware
gpu	Graphics processing unit
infrastructure	Related to Computating or Software infrastructure
mceg	Monte Carlo event generator(s)
modeling	A number of projects aimed at modeling of functionality of the ePIC computing infrastructure
production	Computational transformation and creation of data, at scale
reconstruction	Recovery of characteristics of the underlying physical phenomena from the collected data
simulation	A computational techique used for modeling phenomena
slowcontrol	Related to "Slow Controls", a category of real-time computing applications
software	Misc software
streaming	Data Streaming Technology used in ePIC
timeframe	A temporal unit of streaming data
userlearning	An organized process of educating users about software, and learning tools related to it
validation	Computational checks that the software product satisfies the intended use, QA

Proposed misc keywords

The keywords in this section have not yet been approved for official use in ePIC. Please consider sending comments and/or suggestions to John Lajoie and Silvia Dalla Torre.

An attempt was made to adhere to conventions that reduce chances of misspelling or ambiguity, and allow reliable cross-reference with other information systems where necessary.
For example, it is best to have all keywords in lowercase, and avoid composite keywords (e.g. A-B).

Keyword	Description
eldaq	Activities related to the electronics/R-O/DAQ CC WG
hardware	Additional tag for hardware-oriented activity (lab, testbeam, irradiation, engineering etc)
mpgd	MPGD DSC activities
cymbal	MPGD DSC activities, cylindrical MicroMegas
urwect	MPGD DSC activities, endcap microRWELL
urwbot	MPGD DSC activities, barrel outer microRWELL
femcal	FEMCAL DSC activities
eeemcal	EEEMCAL DSC activities
lfhcalinsert	LFHCAL DSC activities, insert
bhcal	BHCAL DSC activities
nhcal	NHCAL DSC activities
b0	B0 detector activities
rpomd	Roman Pots and Off Mommentum Detectors activities
lumhrc	Luminosity system activities, high rate calorimeter
lumhps	Luminosity system activities, pair spectrometers
lowq2	Low Q^2 taggers activities