2013

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.

Software effort level by sub-systems


Please map in blue with physics program.
N/A indictae constant effort level for duration of the project.

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