MINOS Core Software

Core software packages for which I am the primary author:

• Data Dispatcher System . The DDS is used to dispatch "live" data from the experiment detector sites to clients, such as this far detector event display .
• Persistency package. The Persistency package is used to write data to and from ROOT files within the MINOS job framework.
• Standard Ntuples . Standard Ntuples are those ntuples produced during production running as an end product of Standard Reconstruction. See also:
  • CandNtupleSR .
  • MCNtuple .
  • TruthHelperNtuple .
• AstroUtil . A software package containing astrophysical utility methods used to convert between time and coordinate systems.
• GeoGeometry . A software package implementing the detector geometries using ROOT's TGeo package. Detector Pictures as rendered through GeoGeometry modeling are available.
• ParticleTransportSim . Simulates particle transport through the detector using the GeoGeometry implemented detector geometry and ROOT's Virtual MC package.
• MCApplication . Provides common interface to ParticleTransportSim and GeoSwimmer package.
• G3PTSim . A package to house ROOT'S concrete virtual MC TGeant3 package, with adaptations specific to MINOS.

Other packages for which I've played a principle role:

• Record . A package storing the base classes of all MINOS record types, and a TClonesArray array allocator.
• IoModules . The package containing the MINOS framework I/O interface code.

MINOS Cosmic Ray Simulation

I've simulated cosmic ray muons at both the far and near detector sites:

• Far Detector Cosmic Ray Simulation:
  • A description and resulting muon data file of a far detector cosmic ray muon simulation.
  • A summary of the far detector rock overburden .
• Near Detector Cosmic Ray Simulation:
  • A description and resulting muon data file of a near detector cosmic ray muon simulation .
  • A summary of the near detector rock overburden .
• A proposal for a new MINOS Cosmic Ray simulation.

MINOS C++ MC Simulation

• The geometries are modeled using ROOT's TGeo package geometry package.
  • The particle transport is handled using ROOT's virtual monte carlo interface.
  • Validation of the new particle transport MC (PTSim) vs the old (GMINOS) is underway.
    • A summary of validation tests .