There are two user menus that can be used for used for events running. One of them - general menu of advanced Geant interface (AGI) called AGUSER, another one - USER menu is a STAR specific user menu. It is a user choice, which set of commands he will use for simulation. The menu manual can be obtained from during regular staf session by means of commands:
manual aguser file_name.tex latex for AGUSER menu or
manual user file_name.tex latex for USER menu
You can see the output file, created by means of both above-mentioned
commands here. Here we will briefly describe following
commands of STAR USER menu: phasespace,
momentumbin, skip,
udecay, gfdk,
secondaries, vxyz,
vsig, subevent,
shadow and sensecute.
Information about track displaying modes can be
found at the end of this page.
user/phasespace [ ntrack id ptlow pthigh ylow yhigh philow phihigh
] Where
ntrack - Number of tracks per event. Default value
is 100.
id - Geant
Particle ID. Default value is 8.
ptlow - Lower limit of pT. Default value
is 0.
pthigh - Upper limit of pT. Default value is 1.
ylow - Lower limit of rapidity. Default
value is -1.
yhigh - Upper limit of rapidity. Default
value is 1.
philow - Lower limit of phi. Default value is
0.
phihigh- Upper limit of phi. Default value is
6.283
By this command one can generate flat phase space in place of input
file of events. Parameters are Geant PID,
lower and upper bounds of rapidity interval, lower and upper bounds
of pT interval, and number of tracks per event. Full azimuthal interval
is used. If no parameters are given, old values existing in
the program are preserved. Initial limits are 0< pT<10000,
-10<y<+10, 0<phi<2pi.
For example the command line
phasespace 1 8 0.1 1 -1 1
will create one pion with randomly chosen pT in the
range 1000 Gev< pT<10000GeV, rapidity in the range +/-1.
user/momentumbin [ntrack id pxlow pxhigh pylow pyhigh pzlow pzhigh ] , where
ntrack - Number of tracks per event. Default
value is 100.
id
- Geant Particle ID. Default value is 8.
pxlow - Lower limit of px. Default
value is 1.
pxhigh -Upper limit of px. Default value
is 1.
pylow -Lower limit of py. Default
value is 1.
pyhigh - Upper limit of py. Default value
is 1.
pzlow -Lower limit of pz. Default
value is 1.
pzhigh -Upper limit of pz. Default
value is 1.
allows generating uniform distribution within given 3-momentum bin in place of input file of events. Parameters are Geant PID, lower and upper bounds of px, py and pz, and number of tracks per event. If no parameters are given, 100 pi+ will be generated per event, distributed uniformly in the interval -1<px<1, -1<py<1, -1<pz<1 GeV. If px_high is less than px_low, then px_high will be set equal to px_low (i.e. px will have the same value for all tracks), and similarly for py and pz.
It is possible for some reason to skips few events from the input event file. One can use command
user/skip nevent [nsubevent subran1 subran2],
where
nevent - Number of
input events to skip.
nsubevent - Number of subevents to skip in first processed
event.
subran1 - First random seed at
start of first processed subevent.
subran2 - Second random seed
at start of first processed subevent.
All default values are equal 0. It skips the next nevent events of input event file. If nsubevent0, skips first nsubevents subevents in first processed event, using random seeds subran1 and subran2. This allows the user to set the seeds to randomize the target position correctly at the beginning of the desired event and then skip directly to any subevent.
Next command
user/udecay pidparent rin rout pid1 pid2
[pid3], where
pidparent - Geant PID
of parent. Default value is 11.
rin
- Inner limit of radial interval for uniform decay. Default value
is 10.
rout -
Outer limit of radial interval for uniform decay. Default value
is 100.
pid1 -
Geant PID of first decay daughter.
Default value is 5.
pid2 -
Geant PID of second decay daughter.
Default value is 4.
pid3 -
Geant PID of third decay daughter,
if present. Default value is 0.
initializes parameters for the decay of a particle with uniform probability
along its trajectory between the cylindrical surfaces R=rin
and R=rout. This can be used to enhance statistics for the
efficiency studies of the reconstruction of decays. A new particle
is defined, having pidnew=pidparent+200,
and which does not have any decay modes defined in Geant.
When particle pidparent appears in the input list of kinematics,
its id is replaced by pidnew. It is propagated
from its origin through the
surface R=rout, and then a decay point is chosen uniformly
along its trajectory between rin and rout.
GSTAR explicitly creates a new vertex at this decay point,
with 100% branching ratio for decay into the two or three daughters
defined, with kinematics defined appropriately (three-body decay assumes
scalar particles). Since the path length to the generated vertex
and the parent 4-momentum are known, the appropriate weighting factor for
the vertex due to the lifetime of the parent can be calculated.
There are few more commands that can be useful for different simulation
purpose. The command
user/gfdk [ipart] , where ipart
is Geant PID (default
value is 0)
writes out decay modes for particle id ipart.
user/secondaries scnd , where
scnd is a secondaries treatment flag with default
value equals 1,
controls the way how secondary particles are treated:
0 - secondaries ignored;
1 - secondaries are put in jstak only (standard)
2 - some secondaries are saved in KINE bank.
This concerns decay products of particles, already existing in KINE.
Other products (than decay) of these particles are saved in KINE
only if they are produced in specially named media, which should
be different from the medium, where the parent was born.
user/vxyz vx vy vz,
where
vx - primary vertex x,
vy - primary vertex y,
vz - primary vertex z (all default values
equal 0, possible values can be chosen within the range (-1000,1000
)),
displaces an average position of the interactions vertex in (vx,vy,vz)
user/vsig vsigt vsigz , where
vsigt - transverse vertex spread,
vstgz - longitudinal vertex spread (default values are
0, possible values can be chosen within the range (0,1000 ))
defines sigma if the generated vertex spread both in transverse and
longitudinal (along the beam axis) direction.
user/subevent nsub [ Ntrk_max Nhit_max
]
nsub -
number of final state tracks per sub-event. Default value 200, range
(0,10000000).
Ntrk_max - maximum of tracks per single KINE bank.
Default value 64000, range (0,10000000).
Nhit_max - maximum length of a single HITS
bank. Default value 10000000, range (0,10000000).,
controls splitting of full events into a number of smaller sub-events in the GEANT simulation phase. One important notice: micky-mouse event generator is not expected to generate splitted events, so one should switch the splitting off with
subevent 0
user/shadow shdo , where shdo - tracking flag for dense materials (can be 0 or 1, default value is 1),
change the flag value to set tracking threshold in dense materials
very high. This will prevent showering in magnets and other dense
objects, but they will still block unphysical tracks.
user/sensecute cute, where cute
is electron tracking cut, (can be -1 to 10, default value
is -1),
change electron tracking cut in sensitive gases one can control
delta-electron production in detector itself.
Tracks can be displayed only in "debug on" mode,
under control of GEANT switches 2, 3 and 4. Switches relevant
to track display:
swit 2 3 - a GEANT switch for drawing
tracks,
swit 2 0 - to suppress track display even
with "debug on",
swit 2 2 - print tracks step by step,
swit 4 3 - a GEANT switch to display
charged tracks only,
swit 4 2 - all tracks are displayed.