CMSIterativeConePlugin.hh

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#ifndef __CMSITERATIVECONEPLUGIN_HH__
#define __CMSITERATIVECONEPLUGIN_HH__

#include "fastjet/JetDefinition.hh"

// questionable whether this should be in fastjet namespace or not...
FASTJET_BEGIN_NAMESPACE      // defined in fastjet/internal/base.hh

// forward declaration to reduce includes
class PseudoJet;

//----------------------------------------------------------------------
//

/// @ingroup plugins
/// \class CMSIterativeConePlugin
/// Implementation of the CMS Iterative Cone (plugin for fastjet v2.4 upwards)
class CMSIterativeConePlugin : public JetDefinition::Plugin {
public:
  /// Main constructor for the CMSIterativeCone Plugin class.  
  ///
  /// The arguments are
  ///   ConeRadius      the radius of the cone
  ///   SeedThreshold   a threshold for the seeds to iterate from
  ///
  /// NOTE: to be more coherent with all other fastjet plugins,
  ///       we've put the radius before the seed threshold. 
  ///       CMS does the opposite.
  ///       In this way, we also put a default value of 0 for the 
  ///       seed threshold.
  CMSIterativeConePlugin (double ConeRadius, double SeedThreshold=1.0) :
    theConeRadius(ConeRadius), theSeedThreshold(SeedThreshold){}

  /// copy constructor
  CMSIterativeConePlugin (const CMSIterativeConePlugin & plugin) {
    *this = plugin;
  }

  // the things that are required by base class
  virtual std::string description () const;
  virtual void run_clustering(ClusterSequence &) const;

  /// the plugin mechanism's standard way of accessing the jet radius
  /// here we return the R of the last alg in the list
  virtual double R() const {return theConeRadius;}

  /// get the seed threshold
  virtual double seed_threshold() const {return theSeedThreshold;}

private:
  double theConeRadius;     ///< cone radius
  double theSeedThreshold;  ///< seed threshold
};

FASTJET_END_NAMESPACE        // defined in fastjet/internal/base.hh

#endif // __CMSITERATIVECONEPLUGIN_HH__