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0002 title: 'Reference'
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0004
0005 ## Glossary
0006
0007 EIC
0008 : Electron-Ion Collider
0009
0010 DD4hep
0011 : Detector Description for High Energy Physics, a toolkit that provides a single, central source
0012 of detector information for simulation and reconstruction.
0013
0014 eic-shell
0015 : The EIC standard software environment, a singularity/apptainer or docker container with a
0016 curated selection of software components used for EIC simulations and analysis.
0017
0018 compact file
0019 : An XML file holding the parameters of a detector (sub)system, interpreted at build time by a
0020 compiled detector plugin.
0021
0022 detector plugin
0023 : A C++ function, registered with `DECLARE_DETELEMENT`, that builds the volumes of a detector from
0024 the parameters supplied in the compact XML file.
