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Sun Apr 23 14:54:50 2017, Hannah Hasan, Other, Simulation, Plotting ShelfMC Parameter Space, Other

Fri Oct 6 15:15:53 2017, Hannah Hasan, Other, Simulation, Plotting ShelfMC Parameter Space, Other 6x

Message ID: 27 Entry time: Fri Oct 6 15:15:53 2017 In reply to: 16

Author:	Hannah Hasan
Type:	Other
Category:	Simulation
Subject:	Plotting ShelfMC Parameter Space
Project:	Other

Attached are instructions and scripts for carrying out a parameter space scan with ShelfMC, the simulation package for the ARIANNA detector.

Because some of the plotted outputs looked like colored stripes and did not offer any insight into how effective volume changed with some variables, I made some changes to the simulation and plotting scripts so that different maximum, minimum, and increment values can be chosen for each variable. Now rather than having fixed, hard-coded values for all variables, the parameter space scan and plotting is more flexible for use with variable inputs.

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I am trying to write a script that will plot a 2d histogram of effective volume versus two of ShelfMC's parameters.

The script prompts the user for which two parameters (out of five that we vary in our parameter space scan) to plot along the x- and y-axes, as well as what values to hold the other 3 parameters constant at. It then collects the necessary root files from simulation results, generates a plotting script, and runs the plotting script to produce a plot in pdf form.

After many struggles I have the script written to the point where it functions, but the plots don't look right. Some plots look like they could be actual data (like Veff_A_I), and others just look flat-out wrong (like Veff_R_S).

I have yet to pin down the cause of this, but hopefully will be able to sometime in the near future.