VP1 Quick Start Tutorial

Note

This is a “Quick Start” tutorial. It will give you the basic instruments to quickly start using VP1 in your data analysis and your work!

For more complete and technical information, please refer to the VP1 online documentation: http://atlas-vp1.web.cern.ch/atlas-vp1/doc/

Please also note that the VP1 documentation is always under construction, as it is updated every continuosly to match the latest VP1 features or the users’ requests.

If you want to ask for help, please send an email to this e-group: https://groups.cern.ch/group/hn-atlas-vp1-help/

If you want to fill a ticket for a new feauture request or for a bug, please use the blue onglet on the right side of these pages.

You can also contact the maintainer at: Riccardo.Maria.Bianchi@cern.ch

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Contents:

• Prerequisites
• Part 0 - Getting started
  • Setup & application launch
• Part 1 - Basic configuration of the application
  • 3D guidelines and basic geom. display
  • Saving and restoring configurations
• Part 2 - Displaying event objects and data
  • Display of tracks
  • Display of calorimeter clusters
• Part 3 - Making nice screen-shots
  • How to make high quality event displays
  • General guidelines

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Appendix:

• Appendix - VP1 setup
  • How to setup VP1 from scratch
  • VP1 command-line options
• Appendix - VP1 structure
  • VP1 nomenclature
• Appendix - Advanced geometry settings and actions
  • Transparency
  • Open a volume
• Appendix - Tracker Hits (PRD) & Calo Cells
  • Display of tracker hits - Prep Raw Data (PRDs)
  • Display of calorimeter cells
• Appendix - More view and snaphosts features
  • Adding more details to snapshots
  • Adding more channels to a tab
  • Making Tours of the event or of the detector

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page