This hands-on consists of different steps:

• simulation of events and particles;
• detector simulation, with creation of particle hits and clusters;
• reconstruction;
• fitting;
• reconstruction of a D0 decay.

A final step converts the internal classes used in the simulation into standard TTrees, to easily handle the simulation output.

To run the full simulation, run this command:

source runSim.sh

Finally, many many thanks to S. Stemmle for having helped to set the simulation!

Code documentation

You can find a complete documentation of the code here. Amazing that some documentation exists, isn'it?

You can update the documentation with the command:

doxygen ./include/Doxyfile.in

and then navigate it calling your favourite web browser:

firefox html/annotated.html

Software pre-requisities

The following software is required to run the simulation:

• gcc compiler >= 4.6, including g++;
• Boost >= 1.40;
• CMake >= 2.8.0;
• ROOT >= 6.*, with OpenGL and MathMore libraries, including support to x11 and the C++11 standard; it's strongly suggested to compile ROOT using gcc/g++.

Docker image

A docker image is provided, on which it is possible to run the simulation. It is already pre-configured with all the needed software. You can find it here.