Thanks for this great feedback and everything that you tried. I am really excited to read your full report :)
So, I guess, I do agree with your proposal that tasks come every other week. :)
At the end, this is also better for me as putting everything in place is more time-consuming than what I naively thought initially ;)
It is nice to see you trying the software in many ways. I will help you to run pythia8 independently. In order to do so, you need to start from hard process events (and not from the beginning where we just have nothing). This is done through
launch STEMsocial_rocks --laststep=partonAnother possibility is to run it directly.
cd STEMsocial_rocks; ./bin/madevent pythia8
And then you should follow what is printed to the screen. Note that here, STEMsocial_rocks is the name of my working directory.
For what concerns the simulation of the detector effects, this will be the topic of the next two blogs related to this project. Here, we won't use MG5aMC, but instead a framework called the SFS framework (SFS standing for Simplified Fast Simulator) that I developed a couple of years ago.
As a side note, I am considering to write a full blog on this on Monday, so that some material will be ready for the next citizen science tasks :)
Cheers!