LHCb UK Student Software Tutorial

The LHCb UK Student Software Tutorial will take place in November, presumably on the 19th and 20th of November 2014.

Day I (morning or afternoon)

Introduction

• Student meetings: Who, what, where, when and how to contribute, e.g. suggest topics
• Where to get help: Mailing lists, twiki, release area
• Bender basics, e.g. dst_dump.py
• Where to find correct database tags
• How the BK works
• Liaisons
• Eos
• TCKs
• ParticleTable
• Loop over large ntuples rather with C++ instead of python
• getpack, cmt
• svn basics

DaVinci

• DecayTreeTuple
• TupleTools
• MCDecayTreeTuple
• DTF
• LoKi
• Option files
• mcMatch
• Decay descriptors
• MDST: EventNodeKiller?

Ganga

• Submission
• Ban sites
• Resubmit jobs, force status to failed, reset backends, job comment, ...
• $HOME/.ganga.py
• Turn off monitoring loop

Day II (morning or afternoon)

Gauss

• DecFiles
• Check package out, change something and build in Ganga
• Generator stage
• Where to find CommonParticles, DaughtersInLHCb, ...

Boole, Moore, Brunel

• Simulation job and process it through Boole, Moore and Brunel
• TIS, TOS

PIDCalib

• What is it, why we need it and how to use it

-- StefanieReichert - 10 Oct 2014