ROOT Analysis: pre school exercise
To be effective at school, where time is limited, it is necessary to install the software needed for practice and exercises beforehand. Also, you should learn some of the basics of ROOT by yourself. If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Suyong Choi (suyong_at_korea.ac.kr) and Prof. Tae Jeong Kim (tae.jeong.kim_at_cern.ch).
1. Software Installation
You will need a MACOS or LINUX environment to edit and run the analyses codes. Instructions below assume that you have a 64 bit OS.
Set up LINUX
If you are using Windows, it is recommended to set up a virtual machine.
Download and install Virtualbox.
Download Preinstalled VDI image from http://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/. Download Ubuntu 14.
In Virtualbox program "Create New" and then configure to use the downloaded VDI file. Configure to use at least 1 GB for the virtual machine.
Install ROOT
From the ROOT web site, download Root 5.34 or Root 6. ROOT 6 is recommended. You can use the precompiled binary distributions. In case you need to compile the source file, please make sure to configure with the following option to use RooFit and RooStats.
./configure --enable-roofit
make
2. Become familiar with ROOT
Since this course doesn't teach you ROOT from scratch, you should spend some time learning the very basics. For this, we recommend the ROOT primer guide https://root.cern.ch/guides/primer
Sections 1 through 4 should be read and tried on your installed software before coming to school