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Terms of Use

The Nuance source code is freely provided for non-commercial use as a scientific tool. Neither the author nor the author's employer accept any liability for damages incurred directly or indirectly from your decision to install or run this software. No official sanction or approval by any experimental collaboration should be inferred. Support is provided on a "best-effort" basis; suggestions, feedback and problem reports are appreciated. Since the program is new to public distribution, instability and frequent updates are probably inevitable in the short term; the hope is to reach a cycle of stable and less frequent releases as soon as possible.

Included with the installation of Nuance are a number of libraries kindly provided to the community by other authors and widely used in particle physics.  Modifications to these libraries (in most cases, superficial and unrelated to the physics models developed by the original authors) have proven necessary in order to adapt them to the functionality and software environment of Nuance.  Specifically, these libraries are:

bulletPYTHIA (T. Sjöstrand, et al.)
bullet LEPTO (G. Ingelman, et al.)
bullet TAUOLA (Z. Was, et al.)
bulletPROPMU (P. Lipari and T. Stanev)

See the Nuance write-up for full scientific citation of these and other works relied on by the program. By installing these libraries as part of Nuance, you signify your acknowledgement that they remain the intellectual and scientific property of their respective authors and further that the author of Nuance makes no claim to any form of co-proprietorship by virtue of distributing them along with his own code.   Finally, you also agree that the original authors bear no responsibility for bugs arising from modifications to their code associated with use in Nuance.

Software Requirements

Recent versions of Nuance have been successfully installed on a wide variety of operating systems, including Windows, Unix and Linux.  Apart from a few non-standard (but widely supported) extensions (such as the INCLUDE statement and 132-character source lines), it relies solely on vanilla FORTRAN77 code.  As such, the software requirements are minimal and largely related to maintenance and portability of the program:

bulletA FORTRAN77 compiler (such as Visual Fortran, g77, or Compaq)
bulletCERNLIB (CERN Program Libraries). The essential nuts and bolts for particle-physics computing.  Note that the PDFLIB, MATHLIB and PHTOOLS libraries are required in addition to the core (PACKLIB).
bulletCVS (Concurrent Versions System), version 1.10(?) or greater (version 1.11 is recommended). CVS is required to retrieve the source code from the repository where it is maintained.
bulletCMT (Configuration Management Tools), version 1.12.  CMT provides a platform-independent automated build procedure.  If your machine has a C++ compiler, it will be installed and built for you automatically, if not found in your path.

Registration

Filling out the voluntary registration form will allow you to be notified of updates and other important news about Nuance, as well as permitting the author to track the usefulness of the program.  Please take a moment to register!

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Installation

Windows

Instructions for installation on Windows (including a pre-compiled binary) will be posted as soon as possible. 

Unix/Linux

Complete instructions and a highly-automated installation script are provided.

Repository

The source code is maintained in a repository with the CVS address:

:pserver:anonymous@solar1.ps.uci.edu:/u/solar2/nuint/Repository

It is theoretically possible to install the system without using the installation script (or CMT) but this is not supported.  Problems with the supported installation procedure will be given high priority, however.

You can download the everything with one CVS command, using the nuanceMc "super" module which contains everything.  Set the CVSROOT environment variable to the repository address above and give CVS the command:

cvs get nuanceMc

Note that source code downloaded in this way will not have the directory structure expected by CMT, so you are much better off to use the automated installation unless you're an expert!
 

Contact: D. Casper, University of California, Irvine