Glasgow PPE Group

Getting Started with ATLAS

CONTENTS

Getting Started

    [TXT] Getting an Atlas Account
    [TXT] How to Log into to lxplus

Access to the Grid

    [TXT] Aquiring a Grid Certificate.
    [TXT] Getting Started on The Grid.

Installing CMT (Configuration Management Tool) - Your Software Development Enviroment

    [TXT] Bootstrap Procedure
    [TXT] Setting up your Session Environment
    [TXT] Checking Out Packages from CMT

The Full Simulation Process in Athena

    [TXT] Event Generation using a Monte Carlo event generator.
    [TXT] Simulation - creating hits in the detector.
    [TXT] Digitisation of Events - adding pile up errors/run time/voltages etc to the simulated hits in the detector.
    [TXT] Reconstuction - an attempt to rebuild the generated data.
    [TXT] Analysis - creating AOD and performing analysis to compare reconstructed output with generated input.

The Fast Simulation Process

    [TXT] Running Atlfast

Using Atlantis - creating images of Events in the Detector

    [TXT] Running Atlantis


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