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BSMD ADC saturation simulation
Updated on Mon, 2007-10-22 13:46. Originally created by kocolosk on 2007-09-24 15:03.There's been quite some discussion about the saturation of the BSMD ADCs around 850. We don't have this feature in the simulator, so here's my attempt to put it in.
Here's a plot of the ADC and energy distributions from the slow simulator in DEV without any reconfiguration. This is the output of testSimulatorMaker.C using 1000 events from photon MC (photon_25_35_10.geant.root):
Note the sharp ADC peaks at 1023 for the SMDs and the PRS. Now if I configure the simulator with the options (not yet in CVS)
emcSim->setMaximumAdc(kBarrelSmdEtaStripId, 850.0);
emcSim->setMaximumAdcSpread(kBarrelSmdEtaStripId, 15.0);
emcSim->setMaximumAdc(kBarrelSmdPhiStripId, 850.0);
emcSim->setMaximumAdcSpread(kBarrelSmdPhiStripId, 15.0);
Update
These changes were checked into CVS on October 08 2007
Data-MC comparison: Zgg
Updated on Fri, 2007-09-28 17:34. Originally created by ahoffman on 2007-09-28 17:20.Data Cuts:
L2Gamma Triggered Events
BBC timebin 6 - 9
Pt > 5.2
No Charged Track Association
1 SMD strip good in each plane
Embedding Notes, Sept 28, 2007
Updated on Fri, 2007-09-28 18:15. Originally created by andrewar on 2007-09-28 18:15.Requests #1154003721 and #1154003633 (Upsilon and J/psi into Pythia+pp)
Working Towards a Photon Cross Section
Updated on Tue, 2007-10-02 14:17. Originally created by rcorliss on 2007-10-02 10:06.A schematic view of a cross section is:
Combinatorics Within Jets: First Looks
Updated on Thu, 2007-10-04 14:05. Originally created by ahoffman on 2007-10-04 13:26.
Combinatorics With Jets: Second Look
Updated on Mon, 2007-10-08 11:20. Originally created by ahoffman on 2007-10-08 11:20.
Kaon-pion correlations in d+Au: same-side/away-side vs ``plus'' and ``minus''
Updated on Tue, 2007-10-09 11:07. Originally created by kopytin on 2007-10-09 11:07.BSMD ADC Responses
Updated on Tue, 2007-10-09 14:01. Originally created by wleight on 2007-10-09 14:01.These plots were generated from the IUCF MuDsts, both /star/institutions/iucf/hew/2006ppLongRuns/ and /star/institutions/iucf/balewski/prodOfficial06_muDst.
Database load times
Updated on Fri, 2007-10-12 11:45. Originally created by kocolosk on 2007-10-09 22:52.Calibrations_eemc.......Real time 0:00:00.101, CP time 0.050
Calibrations_emc........Real time 0:00:00.045, CP time 0.010
Calibrations_ftpc.......Real time 0:00:00.005, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_l2.........Real time 0:00:00.014, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_l3.........Real time 0:00:00.013, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_pmd........Real time 0:00:00.019, CP time 0.010
Calibrations_rhic.......Real time 0:00:00.004, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_rich.......Real time 0:00:00.004, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_ssd........Real time 0:00:00.012, CP time 0.010
Calibrations_svt........Real time 0:00:59.828, CP time 0.490
Calibrations_tof........Real time 0:00:00.054, CP time 0.020
Calibrations_tpc........Real time 0:00:00.845, CP time 0.030
Calibrations_tracker....Real time 0:00:00.018, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_trg........Real time 0:00:00.004, CP time 0.000
Calibrations_zdc........Real time 0:00:00.005, CP time 0.000
Geometry_emc............Real time 0:00:00.030, CP time 0.010
Geometry_ftpc...........Real time 0:00:00.051, CP time 0.000
Geometry_pmd............Real time 0:00:00.117, CP time 0.010
Geometry_ssd............Real time 0:00:00.026, CP time 0.000
Geometry_svt............Real time 0:00:06.470, CP time 0.090
Geometry_tof............Real time 0:00:00.033, CP time 0.000
Geometry_tpc............Real time 0:00:00.326, CP time 0.010
Conditions_trg..........Real time 0:00:00.021, CP time 0.020
RunLog_l3...............Real time 0:00:00.022, CP time 0.000
RunLog_onl..............Real time 0:00:00.019, CP time 0.000
RunLog_rhic.............Real time 0:00:00.005, CP time 0.000
StarDb..................Real time 0:03:39.359, CP time 0.710
UPDATE
I repeated this test again and found that this time StarDb ~ Calibrations_svt:Calibrations_svt........Real time 0:05:56.508, CP time 0.460
Geometry_svt............Real time 0:00:16.197, CP time 0.080
StarDb..................Real time 0:06:17.437, CP time 0.630
MY HACK
After a bit of digging I found that one can skip the SVT tables by adding the following line to the beginning of StDbConfigNodeImpl::buildTree:// Skip SVT tables for performance boost -- APK
if( mdbDomain == dbSvt ) return 1;
MY HACK, VERSION 2
I missed some recursion in the first hack; this seems to do a better job:// Skip SVT tables for performance boost -- APK
if( mdbDomain == dbSvt ) {
if(mnextNode)mnextNode->buildTree(opt);
return 1;
}
2006 TPC Drift Velocity Investigation
Updated on Sun, 2007-10-14 06:59. Originally created by kocolosk on 2007-10-13 21:42.Procedure
- Restore st_laser DAQ files from HPSS
- cons StRoot/StLaserAnalysisMaker
- Run a simple BFC chain: root.exe -q -b 'bfc.C(9999,"LanaDV,ITTF","path_to_st_laser_daq_file")'
- execute LoopOverLaserTrees.C+("./st_laser_*.tags.root") to generate drift velocity measurements
Results
Here are the drift velocity measurements currently in the Calibrations_tpc database and the ones that I recalculated from the st_laser DAQ files. I'm only showing measurements from the 10 days around the purge:I'm not sure how much attention should be paid to the original East laser measurements. The West laser measurements in the DB track pretty closely with the new ones. The significant difference is that there are more new measurements covering the period where the D.V. was changing rapidly:
So what we're really interested in is, for a given event, how different will the D.V. returned by the database be? The way to calculate that is to compare each new measurement to the DB measurement with the closest preceding beginTime:
In the West ratio plot one can clearly see the effect of the additional measurements. For comparison I've plotted the time period where we see problems with the track DCAs and <nTracks> / jet. See for example
http://deltag5.lns.mit.edu/~kocolosk/protected/drupal/4036/summary/bjp1_sum/bjp1_sum_dcaG.gif
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/protected/spin/trent/jets/2007/apr06/problem_highlights.gif
http://cyclotron.tamu.edu/star/2006Jets/apr23_2007/driftVelocityProb.list