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Last modification: 21.01.13

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PARSEC

Download the latest developer version of PARSEC from the developer repository using Mercurial or get a stable release from. You can find information about existing issues with PARSEC and report bugs at the developer page.

Lenses for the galactic field

For the galactic field you can use the following provided lenses or generate your own from backtracking data. For backtracking UHECRs with CRT a program is shipped with PARSEC. The filenames of the lens data indicate the type and parameters used for the simulation.

JF2012
BSS_S

Installation

PARSEC is known to work on Scientific Linux 5, Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze and Wheezy, and Mac OS X. It will probably also work on any other Linux. Please notify us if you have successfully used it on any other OS.

PARSEC depends on

and uses CMake as build tool. While Boost and the GSL are probably already installed, PXL has to be installed. Vispa is not required, but recommended as GUI. Download the latest version of PARSEC. After extraction of the contents of the archive, enter the directory and type

$ cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/PATH/TO/USER/INSTALLED/SOFTWARE
$ make && make install

This assumes that the PXL libraries can be found using pkg-config. You may have to add something like

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/foo/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/foo/lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$HOME/foo/lib/pkgconfig
export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/foo/lib/python2.6/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH

to your ~.bashrc

The installation should work without errors. Please report any problems, difficulties or success stories to tobias.winchen@physik.rwth-aachen.de.