## Jet Finders

`Pythia` comes with three built-in jet finders, `ClusterJet` for e^+e^- events and `SlowJet` and `CellJet`for hadron collider ones. Especially the latter is not so well matched to the standards of its field, however. (But it is closely related to the anti-kT algorithm, so is also not completely disconnected [Cac08].)

`SlowJet` can do jet finding according to the current-day kT, Cambridge/Aachen and anti-kT algorithms. It can be run in two modes. The original one is a native implementation which, as the name indicates, is rather slow. However, with the release of the `fjcore` code from `FastJet` [Cac06, Cac12], the default mode has become to use the `fjcore` methods. This is transparent to the user.

### FastJet

`SlowJet` does not exhaust all the posssibilities of the `fjcore` code, so users are welcome to extend on the existing functionality by a direct usage of the `fjcore` methods.

Missing from `fjcore` is a number of aspects, such as jet areas functionality, background estimation, access to other algorithms via plugins, interface to CGAL and tools such as filters and taggers. Therefore, for more sophisticated jet studies the complete `FastJet` package needs to be linked. This is foreseen in the configure file in the `examples` subdirectory, and the `main71.cc` and `main72.cc` programs contain examples how it can be used with `Pythia` events. (Even if these examples do not go beyond the functionality that `SlowJet` can offer.)

The latter program makes use of the `include/Pythia8Plugins/FastJet3.h` header file, contributed by Gavin Salam. This allows simple input of a `Pythia` particle into a `FastJet` one, either retaining only the four-momentum or the full particle information. Thereby more sophisticated selectors become possible at the `FastJet` level. This code could be duplicated, with trivial modifications, to augment the `fjcore` package functionality in an identical manner, should the need arise.