AME++

Greg Christian, TRIUMF gchristian@triumf.ca February 2014

Simple library to facilitate extraction of atomic (or ionic) masses in C++ programs. The mass data can be read in from any text document formatted in the standard way of the atomic mass evaluation reports. The most recent publication of the AME, ame12 is included with the distribution, and is the default input file.

Also defines ROOT dictionaries to allow the associated classes to be used in a CINT session. These are generated and compiled automatically if the ROOTSYS environment is properly defined on the system.

To compile the shared library, simply type 'make'. This will generate libAme.so which you can then link into your executables. There is no "install" option - if you want to put the library elsewhere, simply copy it yourself. For an example program using te library, see 'example.cxx'. If you use ROOT, you can also load the library into a CINT session by doing:

[] gSystem->Load("/path/to/here/libAme.so");

Then you can use the class from within CINT.