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This assumes that you have access to /u/group/hps/hps_soft, which should be accessible from both the CUE environment and ifarm, or else somewhere wherever stdhep, SLIC, and hps-java are built, using the instructions here: Software Installation

SLIC

SLIC takes .stdhep files as input. If you have .lhe files that you want to process (usually tridents or A' signal), it may be better to use an existing script for this step, or else contact Brad Yale for instructions (btu29@wildcats.unh.edu).

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If the exact number of events in the file is unknown, using any integer higher than the expected number will successfully process all the events without error.

Readout

The following steps simulate readout, which defines things like trigger response and prescaling taken from a steering file.

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The "-DdisableSvtAlignmentConstants" is there because using SVT alignment constants from the database will technically change the detector geometry from what it is defined to be from the .lcdd file, and may cause a crash.

Reconstruction

1) Finally, recon is run using:

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