ALICE Offline Tutorial

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ALICE Offline Tutorial

• Markus Oldenburg CERN
• Markus.Oldenburg_at_cern.ch
• June 1, 2007 University of São Paulo

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Help! How and where to find more information
available online at http//cern.ch/Oldenburg -gt
Seminars
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Important email list and addresses

• Analysis Task Force
• alice-project-analysis-task-force_at_cern.ch 
• contact this list if you have troubles with the
  analysis
• ask Yves.Schutz_at_cern.ch about how to subscribe
• Alice offline
• alice-off_at_cern.ch
• hardcore email list about offline/computing
  issues
• contact Peter.Hristov_at_cern.ch about how to
  subscribe
• Alice all
• general Alice email list
• the ALICE secretaries should have signed you up
  automatically
• if not, contact alice.secretariat_at_cern.ch

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People to contact

• In case you have specific problems (and dont
  dare to send an email to a specific email list),
  try to get an answer from the following people
• Be polite! They get tons of personal requests per
  day.
• correct ROOT, Geant3, AliRoot versions
  Peter.Hristov_at_cern.ch
• PROOF/CAF Jan.Fiete.Grosse-Oetringhaus_at_cern.ch
• ALICE specific GRID problems (e.g. certificates)
  Latchezar.Betev_at_cern.ch
• aliensh problems/requests Andreas.Peters_at_cern.ch
• physics analysis on the GRID Panos.Christakoglou_at_
  cern.ch
• general analysis related questions
  Yves.Schutz_at_cern.ch
• better use the analysis task force list right
  away, since Yves will post your message there in
  any case
• Physics related questions (e.g. Whom shall I
  contact if I want to do an analysis?)
• Karel.Safarik_at_cern.ch
• any other problem, questions,
  Markus.Oldenburg_at_cern.ch

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References

• Latest version to the offline tutorial
• http//indico.cern.ch/ -gt Alice Experiment -gt
  Offline find the latest Tutorial entry
• ROOT home page
• http//root.cern.ch
• AliRoot Primer
• http//aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/AliRoot/primer.ht
  ml
• Coding conventions
• http//aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/AliRoot/Coding-Co
  nventions.html
• PROOF and CAF
• http//aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/CAF/inde
  x.html

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References AliEn I

• Registration Certificates
• http//alien.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Alice/UserRegi
  stration
• https//ca.cern.ch/ca/
• AliEn
• http//alien.cern.ch
• Gshell
• http//alien.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AliEn/GAPI
• User's guide
• http//project-arda-dev.web.cern.ch/project-arda-d
  ev/alice/apiservice/AA-UserGuide-0.0m.pdf

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References AliEn II

• aliensh Grid Command Online Reference V1.0
• http//project-arda-dev.web.cern.ch/project-arda-d
  ev/alice/apiservice/guide/guide-1.0.htm
• Previous tutorials
• http//aliceinfo.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/Tutorial
  /
• Event Tag System
• http//pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEven
  tTagSystem/EventTags.htmlEvent20tag20system
• https//edms.cern.ch/document/788315/1 (INTERNAL
  NOTE)

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References AliEn III

• Creation of tag files
• http//pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEven
  tTagSystem/EventTagsCreation.htmlCreate20tags20
  howto
• Analysis using the Event Tag System
• http//pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEven
  tTagSystem/EventTagsAnalysis.htmlAnalysis20with
  20tags

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References AliEn IV

• File catalog structure Queries
• http//pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Offline/Analysis/RunEven
  tTagSystem/RunTags.htmlRun/File20metadata
• File level metadata
• http//cern.ch/Oldenburg/MetaData/MetaData.doc
• Analysis framework
• http//indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId
  19ampsessionId3ampmaterialIdslidesampconf
  Ida056304