eSTARlight

eSTARlight is a Monte Carlo that simulates coherent vector meson photo- and electro-production in electron-ion collisions. It can produce a variety of final states at different center of mass energies for different collision systems at arbitrary values for the photon virtuality.

Papers and presentations

Exclusive vector meson production at an electron-ion collider: M. Lomnitz & S. Klein, Physical Review C99, 015203 (2019); also available as arXiv:1803.06420.
Coherent vector meson production at an EIC: M. Lomnitz and S. Klein, Presented at the Workshop for Deep Inelastic Scattering, Kobe Japan, 2018.

Authors

Michael Lomnitz¹
Spencer Klein¹

¹: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program, Nuclear Science Division.

Declaration

Portions of this package were originally inherited/based on the STARlight Monte Carlo generator. We would like to acknowledge the authors J. Nystrand, J. Seger and Y. Gorbunov for their contributions to STARlight. This work was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC-76SF00098.

Instructions for use

The following instructions illustrate the procedure to install and run eSTARlight in a *nix based environment:

Download the code package from Github and move to the desired location, i.e.

~/the_path/eestarlight

Change to the installation directory of your choice

mkdir ~/my/installation/dir
cd ~/my/installation/dir

Set up the installation using cmake:

cmake ~/the_path/eestarlight

Compile the code using (g)make:

(g)make

The compilation will produce two executables to run either STARlight or eSTARlight
Set up the desired running conditions in the input file:

cp ~/the_path/eSTARlight/slight.in .
vim slight.in

Note: As of yet, the positron/electron beam must be set to beam1, it is selected by setting:

BEAM_1_Z = +/- 1 (as of yet both positrons and electrons are modelled identically)
BEAM_1_A = 0

Run the simulation:

./e_starlight > output.txt

output.txt will contain the program log and calculated cross-section for the simulation sample.
The event catalogue will be emptied into the file slight.out
Interpret the result. We have provided a macro to convert the output into a ROOT TTree:
```
root -b -q -l ~/the_path/estarlight/utils/ConvertStarlightAsciiToTree.C
```
- TTree is output to starlight.root
Analyze your data:
- We have included template analysis) (~/the_path/estarlight/analysis/) code that reads slight.root and fill histograms. For more details please look at the README.

cd ~/the_path/eSTARlight/analysis
sh e_run.sh ~/the_path/starlight.root

Documentation

A more detailed version of the README is included as part of the software package, located in:

~/the_path/estarlight/Readme.pdf
~/the_path/estarlight/Readme.docx

Finally, the full documentation with class description and dependencies is also available as part of the EIC-related software documentation, e.g. here. We have included a config file to generate a fresh version of the doxygen documentation. The following steps can be used to generate the documentation:

Download and install Doxygen
Move into the source directory:

cd ~/the_path/estarlight/

If necessary, delete previous documentation to avoid any conflicts:

rm ~/the_path/estarlight/doxygen/html/*

Generate the documentation:

doxygen estarlightDoxyfile.conf

The documentation should be generated and available in the previous location.

To view the documentation:

Open the file ~/the_path/estarlight/doxygen/html/index.html

Using with HepMC3 output

HepMC3 can be found at https://gitlab.cern.ch/hepmc/HepMC3. The README should be referred to for installation. For quick installation, the following can be used.

mkdir hepmc3
cd hepmc3
git clone https://gitlab.cern.ch/hepmc/HepMC3.git
mkdir hepmc3-build
cd hepmc3-build
cmake -DHEPMC3_ENABLE_ROOTIO=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../hepmc3-install -DHEPMC3_ENABLE_PYTHON=OFF -DHEPMC3_BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DHEPMC3_ENABLE_TEST=ON ../HepMC3

Running tests at this point will result in errors so first compile the test directory:

cd test
make
cd ..
make test

You should get the output: 100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 23. Now install:

make install

To compile eSTARlight with HepMC3 output enabled, use:

cmake /pathto/estarlight -DENABLE_HEPMC3=ON -DHepMC3_DIR=/pathto/hepmc3/hepmc3-install

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