Earth Core Workshop June 30-July 2, 2008

Introduction

In June, 2007 an IceCube workshop was held in Madison. Since this workshop proved highly useful, similar workshops were decided to be organized in Tokyo. Hence, from June 30 through July 2, 2008 an IceCube workshop will be held in Tokyo, as a part of the International Workshop on High Energy Earth Science. This workshop will cover a brief introduction to the IceCube science basics and an introduction to linux, C/C++ and ROOT.

The workshop should be of interest to all who are into IceCube analysis, with more in-depth science topics, lectures about icetray and the major elements of the simulation and reconstruction.

Intended audience

·         New grad students (at least 1)

·         Postdocs (at least 1)

·         Anybody else interested

Preparation

We will install the latest icerec release on a network disk for all relevant platforms, so that students can use that to run their scripts on cobalt nodes and on the cluster. We can write a relatively simple script to do this. Some students may bring their own laptops with their own linux.

Time schedule

This workshop is open every day in the period between June 30 and July 2, 2008, from 9am till 5pm. Many sessions will be interactive, like a workshop, with hands-on practice.

Tentative schedule

Day, location

Time

Level

Subject

 

Description

June. 30, Hongo

Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00-10:30

A

Introduction to IceCube (science) I

 

cosmic rays, neutrinos, detection principle, physics topics

 

10:30-12:00

A

Introduction to IceCube (detector) I

 

detector layout, PMTs, DOM, ATWD, FADC

 

12:00-13:30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

13:30-15:00

A

ROOT III

 

basic analysis operations on (icerec) ROOT files: angular distributions, quality cuts (Ndir), histogramming

 

15:30-17:00

A

IceTray I

 

using modules, services, i3-files, dataio-shovel, glshovel; hacking simple python scripts

July. 1, Hongo Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00-11:00

A

IceTray II

 

writing new modules and services in icetray

 

11:00-12:00

A

Reconstruction I

 

Introduction to reconstruction methods for muons (linefit, time residuals, LLH fits)

 

12:00-13:30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

13:30-17:00

A

Reconstruction II

 

Simple reconstruction scripts to produce ROOT files

July. 2, Hongo Campus

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00-10:00

A

Reconstruction III

 

Gulliver's Travels

 

10:00-11:00

A

Hits, pulses and waveforms

 

all about PE, PMT/atwd/fadc info, calibration, feature extractor, hit cleaning

 

11:00-12:00

B

Discussion

 

questions, evaluation, discussion

 

12:00-13:30

 

Lunch