February 6, 2007 Software
Contents
Agenda
- Review minutes from January 30, 2007 Software meeting
- FCAL status (Mihajlo)
- Action items
- Golden Channels (Alex)
- Rates in CDC layers added inside ring 1 (Richard)
- Update on the background normalization factor (Richard)
- Results on tagger background from electron beam halo (Richard)
Minutes
Attendees: David L., Elke A., Simon T., Elliott W., Elton S., Mark I., Eugene C. On the phone: Mijhalo K., Richard J., Alex D.
FCAL status
Action items
<deferred until next week>
Golden Channels
Alex gave a brief report on a discussion he'd had with Elton regarding the "golden channels" we should look at with the simulation. The channel looks to be a good choice since it is a close match to the expected decay path for hybrids.
For the purposes of the upcoming reviews, they thought of combining data from the following 2 channels:
The cross-section for the channel is known to be 9 times smaller than for the . By combining data, we can show that the detector resolution is good enough to distinguish the from the and it will use both charged and neutral particles.
Rates in CDC layers added inside ring 1
Richard gave a report on a brief backgound rate study he did where 4 additional CDC layers were put into the HDGeant geometry. The rates are shown in the picture below. The yellow area represents the new layers while the white are the layers from the nominal design. Note that in this simulation, the start counter was removed since it overlapped in space with the new layers. The rates in the nominal design look to have increased slightly due to the larger amount of material in the new layers as compared to the start counter.
Update on the background normalization factor
Richard reported that he found a bug in the simulation of the electron beam source in the upstream simulation program (not hdgeant). This program is used to find the factor by which the rates obtained using the built-in coherent bremstrahlung generator in hdgeant must be scaled in order to get the true rates. This factor is nominaly 1.1 for 10^7 running (see src/programs/Simulation/HDGeant/control.in). After the bug fix, the simulation was rerun to see if it affected the rates in GlueX recently obtained from Monte Carlo. The rates were not affected by the change.
Results on tagger background from electron beam halo
Action Items
- Freezing tags in subversion through hooks (David)
- Put tarballs of external packages on Wiki(David)
- SVN web interface for browsing change logs (David)
- Design and implement exception and logging scheme for JANA
- Discuss integration issues
- Experiment with shared pointers