ROOT software package
ROOT - a package of object-oriented programs and libraries developed in the European nuclear research center. The package was designed specifically for use as experimental high-energy physics data processing platforms and contains products specific to this area, however, can also be used to analyze other data, for example, in astronomy. ROOT has a graphical user interface, container classes, C++ based scripting language, command interpreter (CINT), long-term data storage system.
Scientific tools and computer simulation generate enormous amounts of data. for the analysis and organization of which new scientific methods are required. Every year, data volumes are almost are doubled. Since new scientific instruments are extremely accurate, just as quickly data quality is improving. To analyze this data in order to find the subtle effects missed in previous studies, algorithms are required that can simultaneously work with huge data sets and detect very subtle effects. Currently ROOT has become almost a standard software for modern accelerator experiments.
Packages included in ROOT contain:
- tools for creating histograms and graphs of functions for visualizing and analyzing probabilistic distributions and functions;
- means of "fitting" (fitting) theoretical curves for experimental data and minimization of functions (for the selection of the simplest dependencies describing experimental data);
- statistical analysis tools;
- tools of matrix algebra;
- tools for four-vector calculations (four-dimensional Minkowski space is convenient used in high energy physics);
- standard math functions;
- Multivariate data analysis tools, in particular the use of neural networks;
- image processing tools used, for example, to analyze astronomical images;
- means of access to distributed data (in the context of database tables);
- tools for distributed computing, data processing parallelization;
- means of serialization and long-term preservation of objects;
- database access tools;
- 3D geometric visualization tools;
- tools for creating files in various graphic formats, such as PostScript, JPEG, SVG;
- two-way interfaces to Python and Ruby languages (you can use ROOT tools for code in Python or Ruby and the use of modules written in Python or Ruby in ROOT);
- interfaces to Monte Carlo generators of elementary particle physics.