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Installing ILC Software from scratch

• Decide on version to install
• Look for preinstalled packages (Geant4, root, mySQL, ...)
• Link to CalId or to Calice s/w on grid

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# iLCSoft versions for release v01-15
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# F.Gaede, DESY 09.12.2011
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# --------- ilcsoft release version ------------------------------------------
ilcsoft_release='v01-16'
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# --------- install dir ------------------------------------------------------
ilcsoft_install_prefix = "/home/caldata3/software/ilcsoft/"
#ilcsoft_install_prefix = ilcsoft_afs_path[ arch ]
#ilcsoft_install_dir = os.path.join( ilcsoft_install_prefix, ilcsoft_release )
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# --------- ilcsoft home -----------------------------------------------------
# python variable for referring the ILC Home directory
# used to link or use already installed packages (SL4 or SL5)
# no need to set this variable if using SL4 or SL5 with access to /afs/desy.de/
#ilcPath = '/afs/desy.de/project/ilcsoft/sw/i386_gcc41_sl5/'
#ilcPath = ilcsoft_afs_path[ arch ]
#ilcPath = ilcsoft_install_prefix
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#ilcPatchPath = "/afs/desy.de/project/ilcsoft/sw/x86_64_gcc41_sl5/v01-15"

Available Information

• CALICE home
• MAPS wiki
• CosmicsTests

GUINEAPIG-test

• C Rimbault, P.Bambade, K.Mönig, D.Schulte, Impact of beam-beam effects on precision luminosity measurements at the ILC, 2007 JINST 2 P09001 doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/2/09/P09001
• C.Rimbault, P.Bambade, K.Mönig, D.Schulte, Incoherent pair generation in a beam-beam interaction simulation, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 9, 034402 (2006)
• C.Rimbault et al, GUINEA-PIG++ : An Upgraded Version of the Linear Collider Beam-Beam Interaction Simulation Code GUINEA-PIG, http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/p07/PAPERS/THPMN010.PDF[Proc. PAC07, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA]]

• GUINEAPIG web site (LAL) - http://flc-mdi.lal.in2p3.fr/spip.php?rubrique40

There are new-ish C++ and (the original) C versions of GUINEAPIG. We had more success with the original C version that GUINEAPIG++, but note that the latter has been revised in the last 12 months, and now supports all input options of the original C version, therefore recommend using/trying GUINEAPIG++ .

• acc.dat steering files we used for Mokka/MAPS background studies are contained in
  • acc.dat
  • Trimming the resultant pairs.dat, for very loose kinematic cuts, used modpairs6.C.

CALICE Web Utilities

• SensorsRT110708.pdf: To upload to arxiv