The Object Oriented Interface

Clustering the data

The fastjet library provides many options for the user to perform clustering on HEP data. The library has been designed keeping in mind the different requirements of users. The basic clustering process is described below.

Clustering Specification

The fastjet library has some clases specifically made to provide the different parameters for clustering. This includes the following classes :

• JetDefinition

• AreaDefinition

• RangeDefinition

For example, the JetDefinition class can be instantiated in the following way:

import fastjet
jetdef = fastjet.JetDefinition(fastjet.antikt_algorithm, 0.6)

The JetDefinition class takes varied number of arguments, the first argument is always the type of algorithm, the number of rest of the arguments depends on how many parameters the given algorithm requires.

The JetAlgorithms

The JetDefinition class takes JetAlgorithms as arguments. In the above example we have chosen the Anti-kt algorithm. The list of algorithms is as following:

• ee_genkt_algorithm

• ee_kt_algorithm

• genkt_algorithm

• genkt_for_passive_algorithm

• kt_algorithm

• cambridge_for_passive_algorithm

• cambridge_algorithm

• cambridge_aachen_algorithm

• antikt_algorithm

The Data

The input for the classic interface is a list of PseudoJets. To use the classic interface here’s what the data should look like (This is a single event interface, one function call can only process one event):

>>> array = [fastjet.PseudoJet(1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4),
... fastjet.PseudoJet(2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4),
... fastjet.PseudoJet(3.1,3.2,3.3,3.4)]

ClusterSequence Class

After defining the JetDefinition class, the user can provide this instance to the ClusterSequence class as an argument, along with the input data to perform the clustering:

fastjet.ClusterSequence(inputs, jetdef)

Extracting Information

Any output that has to be an Array will be a list of PseudoJets if it’s particle data. For example:

>>> inc_jets = cluster.inclusive_jets()
>>> for elem in inc_jets:
...     print("px:", elem.px(),"py:", elem.py(),"pz:", elem.pz(),"E:", elem.E(),)
px: 6.300000000000001 py: 6.6000000000000005 pz: 6.8999999999999995 E: 7.199999999999999