Contents

 
• User's Guide
  • User's Guide
    • Introduction
      • General
      • Basic framework
    • Computing environment
      • CERN machines
      • Installation on other platforms
      • CMS unix environment
      • Code maintenance by CVS
        • Building libraries from CVS maintained sources
        • CMZ (CMSIM versions < 110)
      • CMS data base
      • Example job scripts
        • CVS based jobs
        • CMZ based jobs - versions < 110
      • Event scanning
    • Naming conventions
      • Materials and tracking media naming conventions
      • volume naming convention
    • Program structure and data flow
      • General
      • Events kinematics generation - CMKIN
      • GEANT detector description - CMGEO
      • GEANT tracking and HITS generation - CMSIM
        • Kinematics - GUKINE
        • HITS generation - GUSTEP
      • Events pile-up, noise and digitising - CMRAW
        • Event mixing and pile-up - CM_PILE
        • Noise - CM_JUNK, GUDIGI
        • Digitisation - GUDIGI
      • Trigger Simulation - CMTRG
      • Reconstruction - CMREC
      • Utilities
        • General
        • I/O file handling
        • GEANT extensions
    • User control cards
      • General
      • Printing, histograming and drawing control cards
        • Specific debug control - DBUG card
        • Histograms and ntuples control - HBOOK card
        • GEANT switches
      • Events and structures i/o control cards
      • Program flow control cards
      • Other control cards
    • Histograming
    • User hooks
• Reference Manual
  • Steering code - CMSI
    • General
    • Initialisation - UGINIT
    • CMS geometry preparation
    • Simulation steering
    • Kinematics
      • Kinematics data structure
      • Vertex fluctuation
      • Reconstruction steering
    • Termination phase
  • Detector description code and constants
    • General
    • Magnetic field
    • Materials and media definitions
    • Rotation matrices
    • Detector geometry
      • Hierarchy of keywords and geometry tree
    • GEANT geometry by TZ titles
    • GEANT hits by TZ titles
    • GEANT drawing by TZ titles
    • Detectors and hit formats
      • Detector Sets and Detector elements
      • Hit format for the tracker and muon system
      • The digitisation format
      • User parameters for detector element
    • Particle descriptions
    • CMSIM Data Base
  • Event generation - KINE file
    • General
    • CMKIN flowchart
    • CMKIN sample jobs
  • Tracker simulation - TRAK file
    • General
      • File structure
      • Contact persons
    • Tracker control flags
      • Debug control
      • Tracker geometry control
      • HITS recording control
      • Digitization and hit reconstruction control
      • Event reconstruction control
    • Bank descriptions
      • HITS format
      • DIGI formats
        • DIGI format for pixel
        • DIGI format for silicon and MSGC
      • RHIT format
      • TPAR - track parameters banks
      • TKVX - track fit parameters with vertex constraint
      • TVTX - vertex parameters bank
    • Tracker geometry and materials
    • stepping for tracker
    • Tracker signals digitization
      • Pixel digitization
      • Silicon digitization
      • MSGC digitization
    • Tracker hits reconstruction
      • Pixel hits reconstruction
    • Track finding
      • Kalman filtering track finder
      • Template track finder
    • Track fitting, TO BE UPDATED!!!!
    • Vertex finding
    • Vertex fitting
  • ECAL software
    • ECAL simulation software
      • File structure
      • Geometry
      • ECAL and Endcap Preshower HITS structure
      • ECAL DIGI structure
      • Access to the crystals and preshower strips.
      • Basic geometrical information and routines to build analysis software
    • ECAL analysis software
  • HCAL simulation
  • MUON simulation
    • MUON simulation
      • General
      • RPC Muon Trigger Software
        • RPC Trigger Idea
        • Simulated geometry and numbering schemes
        • The MRPC software
        • Usage
        • Parametrisations
      • CSC Simulation
        • CSC Chamber Digitization
        • Muon Reconstructed Hits
      • DTBX Simulation
        • DTBX Chamber Digitization
  • Very forward calorimeter simulation - VCAL
  • Utilities
    • The GEANT extensions
      • Vertex and Kinematic Information
      • Hits and Digitisation
      • Reconstructed Hits and Trigger Primitives
      • Input & Output
    • The General utilities
      • Accessing Set/Detector Information
      • Accessing Geometry Parameters
      • Iterating over Detector Elements
      • Information on pile-up events
      • Access to HEPEVT common block
      • Accessing Hits, Digitisations, etc. using key words
      • Coordinate Transformations
      • Relating reconstructed hits or digits to simulated hits
    • The CMDB file-based database system
      • The CMDB directory structure
      • The CMDB file structure
      • Overriding the CMDB default directory and file names
      • Adding files to the CMDB data structure
      • Multiple file specification
      • Transporting the CMDB data structure
  • User Zebra interface - SZPK file
    • General
    • Zebra Bank Access
      • ZEBRA Data structures
        • Type of Banks
        • Access method
        • Interface routines for TYPE 1-3 banks
        • Defining data structure and format for TYPE 1 and 2 banks
        • Use of Workspace (not yet implemented)
        • Output banks
    • UNIX temporary space (not yet implemented for cms)
  • Level-1 Calorimeter Trigger software
    • General
      • File structure
      • How to switch on L-1 calo trigger
    • Flow chart to simulate L-1 calo trigger
    • L-1 calo trigger banks CTRI
      • Structure of banks
      • How to get access to the banks
    • Eta-phi indexes of the trigger objects
    • Control cards
• References
  • Appendices
    • Code Administration
      • Code and titles administrators
      • Code submission and update policy
    • List of Pure Materials
    • Examples of Material Mixtures
    • List of Standard Rotation Matrices
    • Geometry Title Examples
    • Bank Descriptions
• Index
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