Offline Analysis Commissioning

Introduction

This document describes the goals of the offline analysis that will be carried out during the fall 2014 commissioning run of Hall D.

Data Validity Checks

Once data are being transferred from the counting house to the computer center, it necessary to verify the integrity and validity of the data on tape.

1. Can the data be read by the offline code?

1)  Verify the integrity of the data being written by the experiment. 
      i) Can the data be read by the offline code?
     ii) Are all the expected detectors reporting?
    iii) Can we decode the data from the detectors?

Detector Specific Data

 2)  Once the data are verified, we need to look in detail at each detector.
    i)  Are all channels present in the data?
   ii)  Are the data in the expected ranges (values)?

High-level Analsysis

 3)  High-level analysis
    i) Can we reconstruct tracks in the chambers?
   ii) Can we reconstruct photons in the calorimeters?
  iii)  Do we see photons in the tagger and microscope?
  iv)  Event reconstruction?