ROOT 6 Workshop

ROOT 6 Workshop

Abstract

We will go through the steps of a simple data analysis with ROOT 6:

• examining the structure of a mockup experiment's data: TTree
• examining basic distributions: histogramming
• simple fitting
• multi-dimensional selections
• multivariate analysis: TMVA
• efficiency calculation: TEfficiency
• going parallel: PROOF lite

Prerequisites

We need your laptop! Ideally it has X11 forwarding capabilities to ssh -Y into the machines provided by the school.

• Linux has everything we need.
• For MacOS you should install XQuartz. Or if you have MacOS 10.9: install and update XCode and get a recent MacOS build of ROOT 6.
• If you use Windows you can install XMing. Or you install VirtualBox and grab a CERNVM image with ROOT 6 which you then double-click to import it into VirtualBox. Fire it up to make sure you can run it!

So many options! They are all good - and if all fails we'll be there to help.