SBS Software

h1. Documentation of libsbsdig

h2. Overview

This page is maintained by the UConn group (Eric Fuchey + Andrew Puckett) and as of February 14, 2020 is specific to the '''''master''''' branch of libsbsdig on github.

h2. Purpose

This page documents the libsbsdig code, which purpose is to transform the output data from [https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation_of_g4sbs G4SBS] to digital values such as ADCs or TDCs.

These produce files which can be analyzed with [https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation_of_SBS-offline SBS-offline].

h2. Getting the code and building the program

h3. Prerequisites

*Working [https://root.cern.ch/drupal/ ROOT] installation. '''libsbsdig is compatible with ROOT version 5 and ROOT version 6'''. '''''ROOT 6 is strongly recommended'''''

*Working [https://redmine.jlab.org/projects/podd/wiki analyzer] installation. '''libsbsdig is compatible with analyzer versions 1.6 and beyond'''.

*Working [https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Documentation_of_SBS-offline SBS-offline] installation.

h3. Downloading the repository

The code is hosted on a github repository owned by JLab. To clone via ssh (preferred method on JLab batch farm), do: 

bq. git clone git@github.com:JeffersonLab/libsbsdig.git

For this method to work, the ssh public key on the machine where you want to get the code must be added to your github account (see [https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/ Guide] to generating ssh keys and adding to your github.com account.)

Cloning the repository defaults to the "master" branch.

h3. Building and installing the library

Create a "build" directory that is parallel to the "libsbsdig" source directory (this is not strictly required, but the build directory must be separate from the "SBS-offline" directory in any case). 

You also need to have setup an installation path e.g. /path/to/libsbsdig-install

*NB*: similarly to the build directory, the /path/to/libsbsdig-install directory shall '''not''' be the same as the source directory!

_The following instructions assume that "build" is parallel to "libsbsdig":_

If successful, the libsbsdig library and several other files and folders will be created in the "build" and the "install" directory.

To build and install, the procedure needs to be completed. From scratch:

bq. mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/libsbsdig-install ../libsbsdig

make install

Then, the following line should be added in the OS login configuration file to take advantage of this functionality:

* source /path/to/libsbsdig-install/bin/sbsdigenv.sh (or source /path/to/g4sbs_install/bin/sbsdigenv.csh on the batch farm)

h4. How to use the digitization library

A working example script of using the digitization library is available in the libsbsdig repository at

example/digi_gmn.C 

The input arguments for this scripts are explained in the script comments. 

It has to be executed with the Hall A analyzer:

> analyzer

> > .L digi_gmn.C

> > digi_gmn("simdig_outfile.root", 1000, "gmn13.5_elastic_prod.txt")

h4. Root output documentation

The root file produced by the digitization library contains