STAR Juniors Intro Manual

Contents

Introduction

Welcome to STAR! This manual is intended to help STAR juniors who have just entered the collaboration. The manual covers various topics and materials needed to start your analysis and navigate SDCC (Scientific Data and Computing Center).

SDCC

Once you have obtained your life number and other credentials, you can use them to log in to SDCC. To obtain these credentials, visit this link and follow the steps:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/facility-access/general-access

Basic Commands for Logging in

ssh -AX username@ssh.sdcc.bnl.gov
term $USER@starsub03

You will be prompted for your SDCC password.

rterm -i no longer works. term now requires an explicit node, as shown above. Use starsub03 to starsub07 (see Alma 9). You can also ssh starsub03.sdcc.bnl.gov straight from the gateway.

However, it is highly recommended to use SSH keys following tutorial here

and take a look into Remote Development instructions.

A very efficient start is to use modern IDE like VS Code for working with SDCC - see complete instruction

Running Your Analysis

To run your analysis, set up preliminary files. Here are some useful tutorials:

Use interactive sessions only for testing macros. Submit jobs to the farm for more computational resources.

Publishing Analysis

STAR Papers are documented with analysis notes. Find them here:

Additional resources:

Physics Working Groups

STAR has 5 PWGs for collaborative analysis. Find meeting links and past agendas here:

  • PWG meetings:
graph TD
    PWG[PWG] --> HP[Hard Probes ]
    PWG --> LFSUPC[Light Flavor
Spectra and UPC]
    PWG --> Spin[Cold QCD
Spin]
    PWG --> Correlations[Correlations 
    and fluctuations]
    PWG --> FCV[Flow, Chirality
     and Vorticity]

    click HP "https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/pwg/Hard-Probes/Weekly-HP-PWG-meeting" "Hard Probes weekly"
    click LFSUPC "https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/pwg/light-flavor-spectra/lfs-upc-weekly-meeting" "LFSUPC weekly"
    click Spin "https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/pwg/spin/weekly-pwg-meetings" "Cold-QCD Webpage"
    click FCV "https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/jjiastar/bulkcorr" "Flow Chirality and Vorticity Webpage"
    click Correlations "https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/luoxf/correlations-and-fluctuations" "Correlations and Fluctuations Webpage"

Mattermost Channels

Join the Mattermost channels to ask questions and get help from experts:

STAR Collaboration Meetings

Collaboration meetings occur twice a year, starting with Junior Days. Access past Junior Days materials here:

STAR Mailing Lists

Subscribe to mailing lists for updates on recent events:
https://lists.bnl.gov/mailman/listinfo