Instructor Notes

This tutorial teaches learners how to analyze the reconstructed simulation output produced by EICrecon. It follows the Setting Up Your Environment tutorial, which establishes the eic-shell environment learners rely on here.

Before the session

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• Ask learners to complete the Setup page in advance, in particular downloading a reconstruction output file (50-80 MB) from the current simulation campaign, since this depends on network access to the JLab xrootd server.
• Confirm learners have a working, interactive ROOT install (either inside eic-shell or ROOT 6.30+ locally) as described on the Setup page.

Timing

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Most of the lesson is hands-on analysis. Learners should work the exercises in whichever language (ROOT C++, Python/uproot, RDataFrame, or PODIO) they are most comfortable with; you do not need to cover every approach live.