MICA - Muon Ionization Cooling Analysis

Author - A. J. Dobbs

MICA is an analysis framework for the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment. It is dependent on the MICE reconstruction software, MAUS.

Installation instructions

• Make a directory for the project

mkdir mica
cd mica

• Obtain the source code by cloning the MICA repository with git into a subdirectory:

git clone git@github.com:ajdobbs/mica.git source

or, if you do not have a github login, clone anonymously with:

git clone https://github.com/ajdobbs/mica.git source

• Source an existing MAUS installation (see http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/maus/wiki/Install)

source /path/to/maus/env.sh

• Make a build directory

mkdir build
cd build

• Build using CMake

cmake ../source/ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/path/to/install/directory
make -jN

where the last argument to cmake is optional, specifying a custom installation directory, and N is the number of cores to build with.

• To clean a build, simply delete everything in your build directory

• Installation

If you wish you to install MICA rather than running from the build directory, do:

make install

Note: if using a custom installation directory, you may need to update LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/path/to/install/directory/lib
export PATH=${PATH}:/path/to/install/directory/bin

Usage

Run an analysis with:

./bin/mica /path/to/maus/recon/data/maus_output.root

The output can then be found in analysis.pdf.