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Root was zone of the reasons to decide to not study particle physics
by YakBizzarro 2y ago
Root was zone of the reasons to decide to not study particle physics
- oefrha 2y agoYou don’t have to. I worked on data analysis (mostly cleaning and correction) for CMS (one of the two main experiments at LHC) for a while and didn’t have to touch it. Disclaimer: I was a high energy theorist, but did the aforementioned experimental work early in my PhD for funding.
- aoanla 2y agoI mean, most of the researchers I know at least use PyRoot (or the Julia equivalent) as much as possible, rather than actually interacting with Root itself. Which probably saves their sanity...
- brnt 2y agoI did my master and PhD around the time numpy/scipy got competitive for a lot of analysis (for me a complete replacement) but the Python binding for root weren't there or in beta. Root-the-data+format remained however the main output of Geant4, so I set up a tiny Python wrapper around a root script that would dump any .root contents and load it up in a numpy file. My plots looked a lot nicer ;)
- tempay 2y agoThese days you can mostly avoid it. The Python HEP ecosystem is now pretty advanced so you can even read ROOT files without needing root itself. See: https://scikit-hep.org/ https://scikit-hep.org/