ESIPAP Experimental Particle Physics Tutorials

This repository containes the Python notebooks to run data analysis exercises we perform in one of the ESIPAP EPP tutorials.

We will use ROOT and Python with Jupyter notebooks.

There are several options to run these notebooks

• You already have a local setup version of Python3 and ROOT (with Python support enabled) installed on your computer: clone or download the repository, and run the notebooks locally.

• You have a CERN account, and you know how to use SWAN: clone the repository on your CERNBox area to access and run the notebooks.

• You would like to run Python and ROOT on your computer, but you don't have them installed and you are not sure about how to properly do it. In this case, the safest option is to use Docker, and to use the container that already have the proper setup. Here's is a quick list of instructions:

  • Install Docker Desktop for you OS;

  • Once done, make sure you can run the docker command from a terminal;

  • From the command line, run the command:
    
    docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 --name esipap-epp-tutorials marcodelmastro/esipap-epp-tutorials:latest
    This will start the esipap-epp-tutorials container. You should see on the screen a series of messages, including one with a http address similar to this (the token string will be different!):
    
    http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=5666c2fc6015b0e0310382076f31ad9df7f2afc2694090ff

  • Copy and paste the address in your browser, and you should land on a page like this one:
    

  • Note that if you use the procedure described above, every change you make to the notebook will be lost when you stop the container!. This is because docker will serve you the notebook from the container, and you don't have the right to save them. In other to keep your changes, run instead this command:
    
    docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 -v <location-of-the-repo>:/home/esipap/local --name esipap-epp-tutorials marcodelmastro/esipap-epp-tutorials:latest
    
    where <location-of-the-repo> is the path to where you downloaded the ESIPAP-EPP-Tutorials repository. For instance, on a Unix machine it could be:
    
    docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 -v /Users/Marco/ESIPAP-EPP-Tutorials:/home/esipap/local --name esipap-epp-tutorials marcodelmastro/esipap-epp-tutorials:latest
    
    or, on a Windows machine, something like:
    
    docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 -v C:\Users\Marco\ESIPAP-EPP-Tutorials:/home/esipap/local --name esipap-epp-tutorials marcodelmastro//esipap-epp-tutorials:latest
    
    On a Unix machine you could also cd to the repository and use the pwd command like:
    
    docker run --rm -p 8888:8888 -v $(pwd):/home/esipap/local --name esipap-epp-tutorials marcodelmastro/esipap-epp-tutorials:latest
    
    In all these cases, when you open the notebook server windowd you should see something like:
    Note the local directory: if you open it, you'll browse the repository on your disk (and not that in the container), and all changes you make to the notebooks, or any new notebook you create, will be saved on your disk.

• If none of the above works for you, you can launch a standalone MyBinder environment using the other button below: it will give you a working setup with Python and ROOT, that will allow you to run the notebooks from the browser. Note that in this case any change you make will be lost unless you manually copy your code from the browser window to somewhere else.

Execute the example notebook there to verify your setup!

If you never used Python before, fear not!

It's rather easy to get the grip of the basics. You can for instance use the excellent Crash Course by Rick Muller to get started.