Physics Analysis Workstation

Author

Johnstad, Harald

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

Volume

36

Issue

5

fYear

1989

fDate

10/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1568

Lastpage

1571

Abstract

The Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW), a high-level program providing data presentation and statistical or mathematical analysis, is described. PAW has been developed at CERN to assist physicists in the analysis and presentation of their data. The graphical functions in PAW are based on a high-level interface to underlying basic graphic systems. 3-D graphics capabilities are being implemented. The major objects in PAW are one- or two-dimensional binned event data with a fixed number of entries per event, vectors, functions, graphics pictures, and macros. Command input is handled by an integrated user-interface package, which allows a variety of choices for input, either with typed commands or in a tree-structured menu-driven mode

Keywords

computer graphics; data analysis; physics computing; user interfaces; 3-D graphics capabilities; Physics Analysis Workstation; data presentation; graphical functions; high-level interface; high-level program; integrated user-interface package; mathematical analysis; tree-structured menu-driven mode; two-dimensional binned event data; Computer graphics; Hardware; High energy physics instrumentation computing; Histograms; Packaging; Page description languages; Plasma welding; Tree data structures; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.41103

Filename

41103