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<p> <table width="98%" align="center" cellspacing="1" style="border:1px solid #486090;"> <tbody> <tr> <td cellpadding="3px" style="background-color:#486090; font-weidht:bold; color:white;">Quote:</td></tr> <tr> <td cellpadding="10px" style="background-color:#FFFFB0;"><div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt">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: <a href="https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line" id="LPlnk543750" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line</a></span></div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt">Second, here is the page for the software IceMC, which is the Monte Carlo software for simulating neutrinos for ANITA. </span></div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="https://github.com/anitaNeutrino/icemc" id="LPlnk216192" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/anitaNeutrino/icemc</a></span></div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt">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.</span></div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt">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: <a href="http://radiorm.physics.ohio-state.edu/elog/Updates+and+Results/29" id="LPlnk484156" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://radiorm.physics.ohio-state.edu/elog/Updates+and+Results/29</a></span></div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </div> <div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:12pt">So, familiarize yourself with the command line, and then see if you can get ROOT and IceMC installed and running. Then plots.</span></div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p><p> </p> Encoding: HTML ELCode plain Suppress Email notification

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