Setting Up Snowglobes

At the end of last week, post doc Tina Lund helped me set up Snowglobes. It was a fairly tedious process, and we ran into a few stumbling blocks. First, I didn’t have sudo access to my computer, then we didn’t have the GSU library. When we attempted to install it on my mac (after installing GCC and GSU), we discovered that the mac terminal does not understand the command ldconfig, necessary for installing Snowglobes. Finally, I succesfully managed to install it on a virtual machine on my mac which is running Ubuntu. I test ran a few fluxes and made sure that Snowglobes produced the correct output files.

I also made progress on the small amount of code that I need to write to calculate integrals and sums of the output data that I can now produce. I’m still not 100% on what calculations I need to do, so I’ll wait for more information on that. I do know that I’ll be ignoring the “unweighted” and “unsmeared” output files.

For the actual summing, I know that there are two different things I have to do. First, my program must be able to sum up the event rates/½ MeV bin for each reaction. This does not require an integral, rather it’s a sum “horizontally” across multiple files. The second thing my program must be able to do is to integrate over energy. It will do this file by file. I’m not sure if I’ll ultimately add up these intgegrals.

From what I understand these are the different types of interactions: ibd, nc, es, cc,? I’m pretty sure these will change across different detectors.

The beginning of this week will be spent working on our research posters which we will present at UNC-Chapel Hill this Friday. I’ve never made a research paper before, so I’ve enjoyed learning how to make an effective one.