Things we wish we’d known… SBN Young

So you’ve found this page, chances are that means you’re a student or postdoc new to SBN. SBN Young is a group consisting of, and representing the interests of, all young collaborators of SBND and ICARUS. This guide is intended to provide resources to help you get started in SBN. It’s a compilation of any guides and documentation we could find / write ourselves and is by no means complete but we hope it helps you get up to speed! Thanks to the authors of the SBND & ICARUS Newbie Guides from which we ported some of this information.

Computing

Basic Computing

• Basic Computing
  ssh-ing, vnc, access to FNAL services, setting up an mrb environment, etc
• Producing your own events
  Using larsoft to simulate a simple set of events from generation to reconstructed outputs
• Simulation
  Description of the simulation software
• Reconstruction
  Description of the reconstruction software
• Writing a LArSoft analyzer / producer
  Creating your own LArSoft modules
• The CI System
  How to test your code as you go along
• Git/Github
  How to navigate the wonderful world of git
• Doxygen
  How to create documentation for SBN object libraries
• Using the Grid
  How to submit jobs to the FNAL grid computing system
• Particle gun and analyzer modules
  Writing a simple fcl to produce particles and how to analyze the output using larsoft files

Analysis

• Using Pandora for Analysis
  How to utilise the Pandora reconstrcution outputs for analysis work
• The Common Analysis Framework
  How to create and use CAF files

Physics

• Key Physics Concepts
  LArTPC operation, descriptions of PDS and CRT, motivation for short baseline, etc

Miscellaneous Experiment Stuff

• The Working Groups
  A quick introduction into the work done by the various working groups that make up SBN/SBND/ICARUS
• Common Acronyms
  Why does everyone speak in code?!