Introduction and Overview
ESPACE is the Hall A general purpose analysis software. It combines
a CODA event decoder,
tracking and reconstruction routines,
the COOLHANDS histogramming package, and
KUIP
user interface in a single program. In addition,
ESPACE provides facilities for gain and timing calibrations ("optimizations").
It is designed to analyze the data from the two Hall A
High Resolution
Spectrometers (HRS) whose detectors consist of several scintillator
planes, vertical drift chambers, gas and aerogel Cherenkov and shower
counters. The current version of ESPACE can be used without significant
changes both for inclusive (e,e') and
two-particle coincidence (e,e'X) experiments.
Support is also included for gating histograms on the beam
polarization state.
ESPACE was developed starting in 1992 first at the University of
Mainz, Germany, and later at MIT and Jefferson Lab. Its current
primary application is in Hall A at Jefferson Lab. Thanks to its
general nature, most Hall A experiments to date have used it as the basis
for their physics analysis.
Maintained by Ole Hansen
(ole@jlab.org)
Last modified: Mon Mar 29 14:27:00 1999