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Message ID: 20 Entry time: Tue Mar 20 09:24:37 2018

Author:	Brian Clark
Subject:	Get Started with Making Plots for IceMC
Project:	Software

First, anyone not familiar with the command line should familiarize yourself with it. It is the way we interact with computers through an interface called the terminal: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line

Second, here is the page for the software IceMC, which is the Monte Carlo software for simulating neutrinos for ANITA.

https://github.com/anitaNeutrino/icemc

On that page are good instructions for downloading the software and how to run it. You will have the choice of running it on a (1) a personal machine (if you want to use your personal mac or linux machine), (2) a queenbee laptop in the lab, or (3) on a kingbee account which I will send an email about shortly. Running IceMC will require a piece of statistics software called ROOT that can be somewhat challenging to install--it is already installed on Kingbee and OSC, so it is easier to get started there. If you want to use Kingbee, just try downloading and running. If you want to use OSC, you're first going to need to follow instructions to access a version installed on OSC. Still getting that together.

After you have IceMC installed and running, you should to start by replicating a set of important figures. There is lots of physics in them, so hopefully you will learn alot by doing so. The figures we want to replicate are stored here: http://radiorm.physics.ohio-state.edu/elog/Updates+and+Results/29

So, familiarize yourself with the command line, and then see if you can get ROOT and IceMC installed and running. Then plots.

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