Installing brilcalc

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What do I use to calculate luminosity myself?

• How do I install the tools needed to calculate luminosity?

Objectives

• Know what tool to use to calculate luminosity

• Know how to install this tool in the CMS Open Data environment

The CMS Beam Radiation Instrumentation and Luminosity (BRIL) group provides a command-line tool called brilcalc. With brilcalc one can calculate luminosity.

Installation

To install brilcalc, run

docker run -it --name brilws gitlab-registry.cern.ch/cms-cloud/brilws-docker

Alternative ways of using brilcalc can be found at http://opendata.cern.ch/docs/cms-guide-luminosity-calculation.

Check the installation by running the command:

brilcalc --version

which should output a version number.

Key Points

• brilcalc is a command-line tool provided by the CMS BRIL group for calculating luminosity