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For the CLAS detector, simulation of events is important for determining its acceptance. When the detector is used, naturally it is not going to detect each and every event that occurs. This poses a problem for theories and hypotheses about the nature of reactions on the subatomic scale, since the data from the detector would be useless. Therefore, simulation of the detector with software allows for the calculation of the acceptance, and the ability to extrapolate such information as the total number of events from the data collected by the detector. This makes the data collected much more useful. This, then, was the overall goal of my summer's work. The software integration I worked on (as described in my first research section) was for the purpose of preparing to calculate the acceptance of the detector for electroproduction of lambda (1520) particles. The acceptance is calculated, essentially, by taking the ratio of the number of events detected and the total number of events. This can only be done (for obvious reasons) with simulation of data and the detector. This is where my project has significance. By integrating the RECON software with lambda analysis software, we have a good simulation system for calculating the acceptance of the spectrometer for lambda events. This was the general purpose of my summer's work, and the overall goal, obviously, is then to determine the acceptance of the detector for lambda events.
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