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LHC software course: ROOT introduction

Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN 354-1-016

Please bring your laptop. The slides can be found here.

Homework:

  • Compute a 1-dim histogram containing a poisson distribution. Then fit to this histogram other distributions, e.g. polynoms, a Gaussian distribution, Poisson …, etc. Try to understand how much like a polynom, gaussian, etc. the distributions look like as discussed in the lecture today. You can use as template the fillrandom.C example which can be found in the ROOT tutorials area. Upload the .C file with the poisson histogram and fit before the next lecture to this area.
  • Check out more ROOT tutorials, e.g. $ROOTSYS/tutorials/spectrum/peaks.C. Try to give an argument like $ROOTSYS/tutorials/spectrum/peaks.C(3) corresponding to computing 3 peaks.

LHC software course: students’ presentations (part 2)

Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN 354-1-016

Today we have the 2nd session of students’ presentations. The slides will be available shortly after the meeting starts from here.

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

  • Update your presentations with details from the discussions afterwards and upload them again.
  • Find out details about Binomial, Poisson and Gaussian distributions.
  • How one can define a statistical error of a histogram?
  • What is the “central limit theorem”?
  • Test your EVO setup.

CMSAEP lecture – Introduction to ATLAS and CMS

Who: Prof. Arno Heister

Room: CERN: 28-S-029

Preparation for the CMS P5 visit on Wednesday: Introduction to the Large Hadron Collider with examples from ATLAS and CMS (Slides in Quicktime format) Use your buphy login to download the files. (In case you do not have a login please ask Guoan Hu.)

Please bring your laptop.

Homework:

  • CMS event display: Install on your computer or lxplus Fireworks.The instructions can be found here. (In case you cannot access the CMS internal pages look here).
  • Challenging: What is a gauge theorie? i.e. why/what makes classical electrodynamics is a gauge theorie?