Herwig7 tutorial

6 Oct 2016, 10:00 → 7 Oct 2016, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

Due to some issues with the room booking, we will meet now in room 31-3-004 (IT Amphitheatre) until 13.30.

A room for the afternoon will be announced later.

Tomorrow we will meet in BE Auditorium Meyrin 6-2-024 from 10 o'clock.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the problems with the booked room.

Talks and tutorial about the Herwig7 event generator

Organisation

• First day of tutorial will focus on a general usage of Herwig7 and recent developments of interest for everyone.
• Second day of tutorial will focus on a CMS specific use of Herwig7.

Requirements

• For the participation in the Herwig7 tutorials a Herwig7 (version 7.0.2 or newer) accessible via your own laptop is required.
• Please make sure that you have Herwig7 available beforehand, since only little time can be dedicated to help with the setup of Herwig7.

Non-CMS participants:

There a two rather easy ways to setup Herwig7 on your own laptop. You can either

• Install Herwig7 via the official bootstrap script, available here: https://herwig.hepforge.org/tutorials/installation/bootstrap.html
• Install a Virtual machine containing Herwig7, available here: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~shoeche/mcnet16/vm/

CMS participants:

Herwig7 is available in a prerelease version of CMSSW_8_1_X. Install / use it via

1. scram project CMSSW_8_1_0_pre12 (needed only once)
2. cd CMSSW_8_1_0_pre12/src
3. cmsenv
4. source /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch/slc6_amd64_gcc530/external/herwigpp/7.0.2/etc/profile.d/init.sh

Unfortunately, the Herwig7 package in CMSSW_8_1_X is not working properly, but there is an easy alternative to setup Herwig7 for the use in the tutorial.

Just follow the short steps in the following repository:

https://github.com/mharrend/herwig7tutorial/blob/CMSSW81X/README.md

Thursday 6 October

10:00 → 11:30 Talk: The Herwig7 event generator

General talk by one of the Herwig7 authors.

Speakers: Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

11:30 → 12:00 Introduction talk on general tutorial

A short introduction to the tutorial will be given

Speakers: Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

herwig7-setup-lxplus.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Tutorial: Setup of Herwig7 or Start of general tutorial

Help will be provided to setup of Herwig7, but please try to have Herwig7 installed beforehand

14:00 → 16:00 Tutorial: Start of general tutorial

Speakers: Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

Link to Herwig7 general tutorial

15:15 → 15:25 Intermediate coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Feedback and discussion of general tutorial

Speakers: Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Simon Platzer (University of Durham (GB)), Simon Plätzer (DESY)

Friday 7 October

10:00 → 11:00 Talk: Herwig7 in CMSSW

Presentation of the use of Herwig7 in CMSSW and planned features

Speaker: Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

herwig7tutorial-harrendorf.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Tutorial: Setup of Herwig7 using CMSSW, first test runs

All parts of the subsequent tutorial sessions are documented in the Github repository:
https://github.com/mharrend/herwig7tutorial/tree/CMSSW71X

Speaker: Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Link to Github repo containing tutorial

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 16:00 Tutorial: Further CMS-specific tutorials

Tutorial session will cover more topics, Simon will help out with general questions.

All parts of this tutorial sessions are documented in the Github repository:
https://github.com/mharrend/herwig7tutorial/tree/CMSSW71X

Speaker: Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Github repo containing tutorial

14:45 → 15:15 Intermediate coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Feedback and discussion of CMS-specific tutorial

Speaker: Marco Alexander Harrendorf (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))