Corryvreckan

The Maelstrom for Your Test Beam Data

Dependencies

• ROOT (required, with the GenVector component)

Installation

The CMake build system is used for compilation and installation. The install directory can be specified by adding -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> as argument to the CMake command below. Other configuration options are explained in the manual.

The dependencies need to be initialized for the build to succeed.

Compilation

To compile and install a default installation of Corryvreckan, run the following commands

$ mkdir build && cd build/
$ cmake ..
$ make install

For more detailed installation instructions, please refer to the documentation below.

Documentation

The PDF user manual is automatically compiled by the continuous integration and can be downloaded here.

The latest PDF version of the User Manual can be created from source by executing

$ make pdf

After running the manual is available under usermanual/corryvreckan-manual.pdf in the build directory.

To build the HTML version of the latest Doxygen reference, run the following command

$ make reference

The main page of the reference can then be found at reference/html/index.html in the build folder.

Development of Corryvreckan

Corryvreckan has been developed and is maintained by

• Morag Williams, University of Glasgow/CERN, @williamm
• Jens Kroeger, University of Heidelberg/CERN, @jekroege
• Daniel Hynds, NIKHEF, @dhynds
• Simon Spannagel, CERN, @simonspa

The following authors, in alphabetical order, have contributed to Corryvreckan:

• Matthew Daniel Buckland, University of Liverpool, @mbucklan
• Dominik Dannheim, CERN, @dannheim
• Katharina Dort, University of Giessen/CERN, @kdort
• Adrian Fiergolski, CERN, @afiergol
• Lennart Huth, DESY, @lhuth
• Magnus Mager, CERN, @mmager
• Andreas Matthias Nürnberg, KIT, @nurnberg
• Florian Pitters, HEPHY Vienna, @fpipper
• Paul Schütze, DESY, @pschutze
• Tomas Vanat, CERN, @tvanat

Contributing

All types of contributions, being it minor and major, are very welcome. Please refer to our contribution guidelines for a description on how to get started.

Before adding changes it is very much recommended to carefully read through the documentation in the User Manual first.

Licenses

This software is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. A copy of this license can be found in LICENSE.md.

The documentation is distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-4.0 license. This license can be found in doc/COPYING.md.

This project strongly profits from the developments done for the Allpix Squared project which is released under the MIT license. Especially the configuration class, the module instantiation logic and the file reader and writer modules have profited heavily by their corresponding framework components in Allpix Squared.

The LaTeX and Pandoc CMake modules used by Corryvreckan are licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.