ANALYSE DATA IN THE FORM OF HISTOGRAM WITH COMPARISON BETWEEN KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST AND CHI SQUARE TEST

This paper presents the project that I have been tasked while attending a three-month Summer Programme at CERN. The Project specification is to analyse the result of a weekly data produced by Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in the form of histograms. CMS is a detector which is a multi-purpose apparatus use to operate at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It will yield head-on collisions of two proton (ion) beams of 7 TeV (2.75 TeV per nucleon) each, with a design luminosity of 10 34 cm -2s-1. A comparison of the results is then made using two methods namely Kolmogorov Smirnov Statistic Test and Chi-Squared Test. These tests will be further elaborated in the subsequent paragraphs. To execute this project, I have to firstly study the entire basic computer programming in particular C++ and the ROOT Basic Programmes. This is important to ensure the tasks given can be resolved within the given time. A program is subsequently written to provide output of histogram and calculation of Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test and Chi-square test.