Magic Display

Introduction

Okay so it's a somewhat stupid name, but what can you do I only have some many hours in the day to come up with names.

Q. What is it?

A. It is an event display and plotting program for use with ANITA-II data in ROOT format. (In theory it could be used with ANITA-I data but it would need a quote a few mods to deal with the change in antenna number etc.

Q. Why should I use it?

A. That's a very good question, maybe you shouldn't. I find it is a useful way to look at the rootified data. I know there a people who don't like the rootified data and that's fine an updated AnitaViewer will do everything this does and a whole lot more.

Q. So what's the point?

A. My preferred way to look at the data is using the ROOT trees rather than the binary files. I find it easier to implement calibrations and unpacking in one place rather than everyone having to do it themselves. This provides people, well right now me, with a (hopefully) really simple way to look at the ROOT data files.

Q. How do I get it?

A. Read on, you can also visit the website at: http://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/uhen/anita/magicDisplay

Prerequisites

There are, unfortunately, several pre requisites for installing and running Magic Display.

1. ROOT -- If you don't have it installed get the latest version from the ROOT website
2. FFTW3 -- The Fastest Fourier Transform in the west. If you don't have libfftw3.so on your machine then you need to install it. Most linux distributions have a package ready to install, otherwise head to the FFTW website
3. libRootFftwWrapper -- A wrapper that makes ROOT and FFTW play nicely together. You can get it from our very own SVN repository. You'll either want R1.2 or the development version. So

   svn co https://delos.mps.ohio-state.edu/anitaGround/libRootFftwWrapper/branches/R1.2 myLRFWDirWithWhateverNameIWant
   

   or

   svn co https://delos.mps.ohio-state.edu/anitaGround/libRootFftwWrapper/trunk myLRFWDirWithWhateverNameIWant
   

   then see the README file for how to install and compile
4. eventReaderRoot -- The ANITA event reader program. You can get it from our lovely SVN repository. You'll want the development version, so:

   svn co https://delos.mps.ohio-state.edu/anitaGround/eventReaderRoot/trunk myEventReaderDirWithWhateverNameIWant
   

Downloading

The recommended way to download the program is from the svn repository. Try doing:

svn co https://delos.mps.ohio-state.edu/anitaGround/magicDisplay/trunk (or branches/R0.1)  mySillyNamedMagicDisplayDir

Alternatively go to the download link on the left.

Installing

Four steps to installation happiness:

1. Make sure the prerequisites are installed and accessible from your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2. Make SURE ANITA_UTIL_INSTALL_DIR is set and that the eventReader and libRootFftwWrapper files are installed there. (You probably want $ANITA_UTIL_INSTALL_DIR/lib in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
3. type:

   make

4. type:

   make install

Running

1. Get some ANITA II data -- there's a tar file for testing on the website
2. Edit macros/runMagicDisplay.C to point to your data and run number
3. Type:

   root macros/runMagicDisplay.C
   

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Copyright © 2006 Ryan Nichol,   (last modified 09 Jul 2008)