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''Attendees:  Elton, Simon, Mark, David (JLab), Curtis, Mike, Will (CMU), George (Athens), Ahmed, Tegan, Zisis (Regina)’’
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# Announcements: Accelerator is on track, beam to Hall D on December 4.  Magnet: final stages of leak checking, He system today or tomorrow, then N2 system which should be simpler.  Then the super-insulation, etc.  Cool down 1st week in December.  N2 to BCAL whenever they don't need it anymore.
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# Action Items
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## Emulation: David/Mike preliminary plan on how structure will work, for 1st attempt.  Long project.  New factory for emulation objects, handling ok in DAQ code and get constants in DB.
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## Sampling fraction soon.
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# Commissioning Efforts
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## Effective speed (George): Nothing new.  pTrackFind is different from cosmics.  16.5 vs 17 cm/ns.  The first value is what we use for the 1st layer from spring data runs and the 16.5cm/ns is what we get from cosmics: are they the correct values?  Other layers may need extrapolation. Layer 1 is very stable for all cells. Still investigating.
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## Time-walk corrections [http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/gluex/DocDB/0028/002884/001/HighPP.pdf (Noemi)]  New function a la Nathan from Tagger TDC.  Top right plot is with Mike's function and bottom right plots with new function.  Mike things the work is worth it if it is not a huge overhead in constants for CCDB.  Elton: The function should be a function of ADC/threshold so this is why the 14 is included.  Work in progress.
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## Time-walk parameterization (Elton): Noemi should look into these references below from the CLAS note.  The function and its derivative at the transition point leads to a new parameter.
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##* [[Media:TAGH Twalk 110915.pdf | Tagger Hodoscope (Nathan)]],  See also [http://www.jlab.org/Hall-B/notes/clas_notes02/02-007.pdf CLAS-NOTE 2002-007]
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## Layer efficiencies (Ahmed): picking up the thread.  Checking mod7 and mod8 differences.  In progress.
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## Up/down gain ratios for spring data (Mark): mostly done.  This will be removed from the list. See [https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php?title=BCAL_Reconstruction_Meeting_2015-11-12&action=edit log entry] Gain ratios have been passed on to Will.
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# Calibration
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## Cosmics (Andrei): Irina found memory issues in Geant simulation and re-simulating data.  Mark: will add the attenuation length parameters to the db.  Full consistency between cosmics and data is now possible that a full replay has been done since Collaboration meeting.  Constants are in logbook entry:
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## Muon decays
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### Data analysis (Will): first plot is from data. 2nd plot: top one has points+hits, bottom one only points.  Page 3: investigate possible miscalibration of channels, but definitive conclusions are hard to draw; there is a phi dependence (only max shown here).  Next, Elton's ratio method in plot 4 (link:  [https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-cal/2015-November/001172.html e-mail]).  Plot has points and hits. y has total energy, x is most energetic/ratio.  This plot is from cosmics run.  Why does the left not align with the right half?  The 0.5< are from 3 hits or more, so this leads to missing energy.  0.5 is 15MeV, and threshold is 2.5 MeV plus some attenuation factor. It would be interesting to see these in MC.  Compare to plot on p 7.  Last plot: there could be overlap between hits and points sets.  Plot it in 2D to see correlation.  Also, plot man vs total instead of using the ratio.  The key will be to understand the thresholds (which also change with time and channel).
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### Simulations (Andrei/Irina): nothing new; same problems as above.  Total energy plot (which caused the memory leaks) will be added to the fiber energy deposition. 
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## Calibration Challenge (All)
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##* From Sean: ''Just a reminder to please add the "neutral" starting values for the tables involved in this exercise to the main CCDB, under the "calib" variation, run 0. ''
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##* What, When and Who?  The tables are the timing offsets for TDC and ADC, time walk, and attend parameters.  Mike will handle the timing ones.  For the ADCs we want the gains; we could use the average for each layer and same for attenuation lengths. However, we should prepare for a run-by-run basis mechanism.  For BCAL is it a calibration thing or monitoring thing. The position is reported by the points, so we need to know which parameter extractions need a starting value and which do not.  Do we need to compare extracted values to some "nominal", average values?  This particular plugin should be run after all the times have been calibrated.  The gains can come out from the first pass, and multiple iterations can be used to refine things.  Start with current values of calibration.  The gain calibration is the most sensitive extraction to the procedure.  Use current values for these, timing can start with zero, atten len can use average values.  LED data should be added as well for monitoring (Noemi?).  Shaun: deadline is Monday for timing ones (offsets and t-w).  Will to do current values of gain into CCDB. JLab will put atten len in CCDB.
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# Reconstruction
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# Any other business: No updates on DocDB migration to JLab.

Revision as of 13:12, 12 November 2015

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References

  1. BCAL Reconstruction Issues
  2. BCAL Reconstruction Algorithms
  3. Will's reconstructed energy info

Action Items

  1. Use pTrackFind for comics analysis (George)
  2. FADC Emulation code in November (Mike?)
  3. Low priority items
    1. z-coordinate determination from up/down amplitude ratio
    2. Sampling fraction tables (Tegan, Andrei)
    3. Code Cleanup

Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. Action Items
  3. Commissioning Efforts
    1. Effective speed (George)
    2. Time-walk corrections (Noemi)
    3. Time-walk parameterization (Elton)
    4. Layer efficiencies (Ahmed)
    5. Up/down gain ratios for spring data (Mark)
  4. Calibration
    1. Cosmics (Andrei)
      1. Attenuation lengths [2] (Mark)
    2. Muon decays
      1. Data analysis [3] (Will)
      2. Simulations (Andrei/Irina)
    3. Calibration Challenge (All)
      • From Sean: Just a reminder to please add the "neutral" starting values for the tables involved in this exercise to the main CCDB, under the "calib" variation, run 0.
      • What, When and Who?
  5. Reconstruction
  6. Any other business

Minutes

Attendees: Elton, Simon, Mark, David (JLab), Curtis, Mike, Will (CMU), George (Athens), Ahmed, Tegan, Zisis (Regina)’’

  1. Announcements: Accelerator is on track, beam to Hall D on December 4. Magnet: final stages of leak checking, He system today or tomorrow, then N2 system which should be simpler. Then the super-insulation, etc. Cool down 1st week in December. N2 to BCAL whenever they don't need it anymore.
  2. Action Items
    1. Emulation: David/Mike preliminary plan on how structure will work, for 1st attempt. Long project. New factory for emulation objects, handling ok in DAQ code and get constants in DB.
    2. Sampling fraction soon.
  3. Commissioning Efforts
    1. Effective speed (George): Nothing new. pTrackFind is different from cosmics. 16.5 vs 17 cm/ns. The first value is what we use for the 1st layer from spring data runs and the 16.5cm/ns is what we get from cosmics: are they the correct values? Other layers may need extrapolation. Layer 1 is very stable for all cells. Still investigating.
    2. Time-walk corrections (Noemi) New function a la Nathan from Tagger TDC. Top right plot is with Mike's function and bottom right plots with new function. Mike things the work is worth it if it is not a huge overhead in constants for CCDB. Elton: The function should be a function of ADC/threshold so this is why the 14 is included. Work in progress.
    3. Time-walk parameterization (Elton): Noemi should look into these references below from the CLAS note. The function and its derivative at the transition point leads to a new parameter.
    4. Layer efficiencies (Ahmed): picking up the thread. Checking mod7 and mod8 differences. In progress.
    5. Up/down gain ratios for spring data (Mark): mostly done. This will be removed from the list. See log entry Gain ratios have been passed on to Will.
  4. Calibration
    1. Cosmics (Andrei): Irina found memory issues in Geant simulation and re-simulating data. Mark: will add the attenuation length parameters to the db. Full consistency between cosmics and data is now possible that a full replay has been done since Collaboration meeting. Constants are in logbook entry:
    2. Muon decays
      1. Data analysis (Will): first plot is from data. 2nd plot: top one has points+hits, bottom one only points. Page 3: investigate possible miscalibration of channels, but definitive conclusions are hard to draw; there is a phi dependence (only max shown here). Next, Elton's ratio method in plot 4 (link: e-mail). Plot has points and hits. y has total energy, x is most energetic/ratio. This plot is from cosmics run. Why does the left not align with the right half? The 0.5< are from 3 hits or more, so this leads to missing energy. 0.5 is 15MeV, and threshold is 2.5 MeV plus some attenuation factor. It would be interesting to see these in MC. Compare to plot on p 7. Last plot: there could be overlap between hits and points sets. Plot it in 2D to see correlation. Also, plot man vs total instead of using the ratio. The key will be to understand the thresholds (which also change with time and channel).
      2. Simulations (Andrei/Irina): nothing new; same problems as above. Total energy plot (which caused the memory leaks) will be added to the fiber energy deposition.
    3. Calibration Challenge (All)
      • From Sean: Just a reminder to please add the "neutral" starting values for the tables involved in this exercise to the main CCDB, under the "calib" variation, run 0.
      • What, When and Who? The tables are the timing offsets for TDC and ADC, time walk, and attend parameters. Mike will handle the timing ones. For the ADCs we want the gains; we could use the average for each layer and same for attenuation lengths. However, we should prepare for a run-by-run basis mechanism. For BCAL is it a calibration thing or monitoring thing. The position is reported by the points, so we need to know which parameter extractions need a starting value and which do not. Do we need to compare extracted values to some "nominal", average values? This particular plugin should be run after all the times have been calibrated. The gains can come out from the first pass, and multiple iterations can be used to refine things. Start with current values of calibration. The gain calibration is the most sensitive extraction to the procedure. Use current values for these, timing can start with zero, atten len can use average values. LED data should be added as well for monitoring (Noemi?). Shaun: deadline is Monday for timing ones (offsets and t-w). Will to do current values of gain into CCDB. JLab will put atten len in CCDB.
  5. Reconstruction
  6. Any other business: No updates on DocDB migration to JLab.