November 3, 2015 Calibration Challenge

GlueX Calibration Meeting
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
1:30 pm, EST
JLab: CEBAF Center, F326

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Agenda

1. Calibration Challenge
   • Discussion

Notes

Attending: Sean, Simon, Mark I., Justin, Elton, Alex B., Zisis, Will M., Mike S.

Sean laid a rough plan for the challenge, and it was discussed extensively. Some relevant notes:

• Useful things we expect to get out of this exercise include:
  • Understanding of the dependencies of the calibrations
  • More robust, well-defined procedures
  • Better validation
• We decided to focus on the "type 1" challenge, which involves deriving constants from one run of beam data
  • Other challenges could be defined at a later stage
• The process will involve several "passes" through the EVIO data to refine the calibrations
  • No user-intervention is forseen at any point. Sean (and others) will help work with people that have a defined calibration procedure to automate the work and adapt it to this data flow
• Calibrations will be stored in CCDB after each pass in a dedicated variation
  • Multiple variations could be used
  • SQLite or MySQL?
• Information should be passed by ROOT histograms, if possible
  • Results will be saved after each pass
• Monitoring / validation of constants is important
  • A validation step will be the last stage run
  • Finally, tools to compare the derived constants with current values and to potentially submit these constants will be developed
• Mike shared his experiences with automated timing calibrations, including the interlocking nature of the calibrations, the importance of standards, careful attention to little details like those of binning.
  • Mike and Paul M.'s calibration ROOT scripts have some nice code snippets other authors can use, including code to pull calibration constants from CCDB into the script
• The list of calibrations to run was updated

Going forward:

• Subdetector groups will define the neutral starting values for each of the tables involved in this exercise
• Sean will work with the authors of the calibration procedures to define a dependency tree and to move their code into sim-recon
• Sean will continue to develop test jobs - next meeting we will look at their output
• We will meet again next week to continue to develop plans