Requirements and plans for 2013
The RCF budget was minimal - no extranl disk purchase was carried but essentially, "infrastruture" related money (HPSS Silo expansion) too the core budget modulo some left for COU purchases.
| Sub system | Task description | Aproximate time | Start time needed | Core FTE | Sub-sys FTE |
| HFT | Geometry / alignment studies Includes dev geometry development, developing alignment procedures, infrastructure support for code and alignment, |
12 months | 2012-10-01 | 0.2 | 2*0.5=1.0 |
| HFT | Survey, Db work and maintenance | 12 months | 2012-10-01 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
| HFT | Detector operations. Includes monitoring QA, calibrations, alignment for PXL, IST,SSD | Each Run | 2013-03-01 | 0.1 | 3*0.5=1.5 |
| HFT | Tracking studies, Stv integration and seed finder studies | 12 months | 2012-10-01 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| HFT | Cluster/Hit reconstruction: DAQ for PXL, SSD, IST and definition of base structures but also development of Fast simulator | 12 months | 2012-10-01 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| HFT | Decay vertex reconstruction, development of secondary vertex fitting methods and tools | 8 months | 2012-12-01 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| HFT | General help | N/A | 2012-09-01 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| FGT | Tracking with Stv including integration of FGT and EEMC, ... ECAL W program requires good charge separation. Requirements for other physics goals like direct photon in the EEMC, delta-G, jets, IFF and x-sections have to be investigated and likely range from crude track reconstruction for vetoing to optimal momentum reconstructions |
8 months | 2012-12-01 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| FGT | Vertexing for forward physics | 2 months | 2013-04-01 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| FGT | Alignment study, improvements | 8 months | 2012-12-01 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| FGT | Improvements and tuning (Cluster finding, ...) | 3 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| FGT | Tuning simulation to data, comparison studies using VMC | 10 months | 2012-12-01 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| FGT | MuDST related work | 1 month | 2012-02-01 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| FGT | Miscellaneous maintenance | N/A | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
| FMS | Database interface, client and maintenance | N/A | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
| FMS | Better simulation for the FMS, VMC based | 6 months | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
| TPC | Calibration and alignment efforts: space charge and grid leak distortions and calculating correction factors, twist correction work, alignment (sector to sector as well as inner to outer), T0 and gain determinations, and dE/dx calibration | 22 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| TPC | Calibration maintenance (methods developed converged, documented and automated) | N/A | 2015-01-01 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| TPC | Calibration R&D: alignment and distortions | 8 months | 2012-07-01 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| TPC | Understanding aging effects | 20 months | 2012-07-01 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| TPC | iTPC upgrade efforts as well as contingency planning for existing TPC. Design and construction of a sector removal tool. | 20 months | 2012-07-01 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| UPG | Geometry implementation for ETTR, FCS, VFGT | 6 months | 2012-07-01 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| UPG | Event generator integration and simulator development (initial effort for generator, effort for proposal, longer term efforts as needed) | 12 months | 2012-07-01 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| EEMC | Calibration support for physics readiness, software adjustements and maintenance | N/A | 2013-01-01 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| EEMC | SMD calibration related software development | coming year | 2013-01-01 | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| EEMC | EEMC alignement work, development of better methods | 12 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| EEMC | Cluster MIPS studies | 6 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| TOF | Calibration support, software and database maintenance. Provide final parameters for TOF-based PID, and status tables for BTOF in PPV |
per run | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| TOF | Separate TOF and VPD slow simulators | 2 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| TOF | Simulation studies, mixermaker | 6 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| TOF | Geometry maintenance | 2 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| MTD | Calibration support, software maintenance. Provide final parameters for MTD-based muon ID | per run | 2013-01-01 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| MTD | Simulation studies & development: simulation maker. | 6 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| MTD | Software development: calibration maker | 6 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
| MTD | Geometry maintenance | 2 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| MTD | Database maintenance & development | 2 months | 2013-01-01 | 0.1 | 0.5 |