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Description
This tutorial is intended as an initial introduction to ROOT for new students in particle astrophysics.
The contents of the workshop will assume you have ROOT already installed!
Please refer to the ROOT website for installation instructions (https://root.cern/install/), as this session will not go through how to install it.
Truthfully, you (the student) will not be a ROOT expert in 2 hours. Instead, these slides aim to provide a practical first-look at some basic functionality to serve as a basis point for further exploration/use of ROOT, and contains some ‘guided’ tutorial problems that will be worked on during the session (time permitting).
Also included is a “hands-on” analysis exercise: “Finding the Higgs Boson”. I would encourage students to attempt this problem after going through these slides and other resources in order to test their ROOT skills.
