ldmx-sw Course: Basics

Thursday 27 May 2021, 12:00 → 14:00 US/Central

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Pre-Requisites

Below are the items you need to have already installed on your computer to follow along with these instructions.

• Container-Running Program
  • Usually docker is used for personal computers and singularity is installed on shared clusters
• git version control

EichlersmithT_ldmxswCourse2021_Basics.pdf

EventTree.py

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Links

• Docker Install
• Git Started
• LDMX Software GitHub Group
• LDMX-Software/ldmx-sw

Live Python-analysis written during the course. May_Basics.mp4

12:00 → 12:10 Introduction

How is ldmx-sw designed? What are the core principles?

12:10 → 12:30 Compiling ldmx-sw

Demonstration on how to compile ldmx-sw using the standardized container workflow.

12:30 → 12:35 Questions from Demonstration

12:35 → 13:00 Configuration Scripts

The "steering" file for ldmx-sw is called a "configuration" script. What is its core structure? How can we write one?

Demonstration of what running a short simulation looks like using the build of ldmx-sw we just made.

13:00 → 13:05 Questions from Demonstration

13:05 → 13:25 Python-Based Analyses

How can we use these generated event files in python? This demonstration will show you how I've start python-based analyses.

13:25 → 13:40 Questions from Demonstration

13:40 → 13:50 C++ Processors

Introduction to C++ Processors. What are they and why would you use them instead of keeping everything in python?

13:50 → 14:00 General Questions