Computational Particle Physics Course: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction to ROOT

  • Understanding what is ROOT
Get ROOT
ROOT and using ROOT prompt

  • Learn hoe to open a ROOT file.

  • Learn to use the ROOT prompt.
ROOT scripts

  • ROOT provides many features from histogramming, fitting and plotting to investigating data interactively in C++ and Python but scripts can help with advanced work

  • Learn about C/C++ scripts for ROOT.
Using ROOT with Python

  • ROOT can be used with python

  • PyROOT lets you use C++ from Python but offers many more advanced features to speed up your analysis in Python. Details about the dynamic Python bindings provided by PyROOT can be found on https://root.cern/manual/python.
How to get help with ROOT?

  • User support is an integral part of ROOT!

  • https://root.cern is the entry point to find all documentation

  • The reference guide provides in-depth technical documentation, but also additional explanation for classes and a huge amount of tutorials explaining features with code

  • The ROOT forum is actively maintained by the ROOT team to support you!
Assignment 1 Hints

  • Some help with Assignment 1
Get DELPHES

  • The official webpage for DELPHES can be found here
Introduction to DELPHES
DELPHES with Scripts

  • Learning about using DELPHES with C and Python scripts

  • More complex Python code can be written based on a separate analysis package, deteailed at DelphesAnalysis.

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