Software development for the P¯ANDA barrel DIRC

The charged particle identification in the barrel region of the P ¯ ANDA detector in the future FAIR facility at GSI is planned with a very thin Cherenkov detector using the DIRC principle. Due to a very compact design of the barrel DIRC with focusing optics, the reconstruction of the Cherenkov angle is quite challenging. In this contribution, the possible reconstruction algorithm of the barrel DIRC will be discussed, with emphasis on the possibility to include the DIRC in the trigger decision and the correction of the chromatic dispersion with fast timing information.