Documentation

ROOT

You should become familiar with ROOT. It is an object-oriented data analysis framework.

If you will be new to the ROOT data analysis package

• See it's very complete User's Guide (the most important chapters are those on Histograms and trees)
  • https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/users-guide/ROOTUsersGuide.html#histograms

• ROOT tutorial from Columbia University
  • https://www.nevis.columbia.edu/~seligman/root-class/

This is worth looking over, especially for anyone who is new to ROOT.

• The ROOT Primer is located at
  • https://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/primer/ROOTPrimer.html
• Most of the time you'll be working on the servers as there is no direct Windows release of the most up-to-date version. But you can use Windows 5.34.36 on Windows from https://root.cern.ch/content/release-53436 (And indeed we usually use root 5.34 on the servers anyway).

UNIX / Linux Tutorial

Everyone should become familiar with linux

• Simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX/Linux commands
  • http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Background Dark Matter Reading List

• D. Hooper, "Instant Expert: Dark matter," New Scientist, (2011)

• D. N. Spergel, "The dark side of cosmology: Dark matter and dark energy," SCIENCE, 1100-1102 (2015)

• J. Hecht, "Dark matter: What's the matter?," Nature 537, S194-S197 (2016)

• C. Patrignani et al. (Particle Data Group), "The Review of Particle Physics," Chin. Phys. C, 40, 100001 (2016) and 2017 update