NEPPSR 2006 Analysis Project

You will be using the ROOT data analysis framework for the NEPPSR analysis project. If you are bringing a laptop, please download and install ROOT on it before coming to the retreat.  A pre-compiled binary is available for many operating systems, making installation trivial. Visit this link to find the appropriate binary for your system.  If it is not available, ROOT may also be installed from source code (available at the same location).


For those who have never used ROOT, the following tutorials may be helpful:
BaBar Introduction to ROOT
BaBar Analysis in ROOT: Part II
Bill Seligman's ROOT introduction


A quick reference for often-used commands in Linux and ROOT may be found here:
cheat sheets


Basic ROOT tutorial
    talk
    exercises

Advanced ROOT tutorial
    talk



Project 1
    B lifetime measurement with maximum likelihood method


Project 2
    Discrimination between signal and background events with neural network method