Looping over tracks

SingleTracks

Information about the tracks is contained in the tables Tracks, TracksCov, and TracksExtra. The respective iterators are defined as Track, TrackCov, and TrackExtra.

To loop over all available tracks contained in the input files subscribe to the iterator Track.

void process(Track const& track)
{
  // process the track `track` of type `Track`
  LOGF(info, "Momentum: %f",track.p());
}

In this case the variable track inside the process function is of type Track which has a number of data members. Here we access the momentum P and print it out. For a comprehensive list of data items included in the O2 data model see The Data Model section of these documentation pages.

The Tracks table only contains part of the available track information. In order to simultaneously access information of several tables, the tables can be joined using soa::Join<>.

To loop over all available tracks and having simultaneous access to the Tracks and TracksExtra information you could e.g. do

void process(soa::Join<aod::Track, aod::TrackExtra> const& joinedTrack)
{
  // process the track `joinedTrack` of type `soa::Join<aod::Track, aod::TrackExtra>`

}

In this way also all three track tables could be joined. However, for this one can use the abbreviation FullTrack, which is a predefined join of all three track tables. A list of predefined joins is available in The Data Model section of these documentation pages).

void process(aod::fullTrack const& fullTrack)
{
  // process the track `fullTrack` of type `o2::aod::fullTrack`
  // type `aod::fullTrack` is equal to ` soa::Join<aod::Track, aod::TrackCov, aod::TrackExtra>`

}

AllTracks

In the above example the processing loops over all tracks of the input files. Within the processing function only one specific track is available. This is achieved by using the iterator version Track of table Tracks.

A run3 analysis however is more likely based on data frames and thus looping over data frames will often be required. To have all tracks of a data frame simultaneously available in the process function one needs to subscribing to table Tracks or to any join of the track tables.

// loop over data frames
void process(aod::Tracks const& tracks)
{

  // `tracks` is of type `o2::aod::Tracks`
  // and contains all tracks of a data frame

  // to loop over the tracks do
  for (auto track : tracks) {

    // process the track

  }
}