h1. Monte Carlo wish list

What we have currently:

* Well documented set up to pull in Monte Carlo configuration if it gets provided by the engineers

* Well documented set up to configure whatever fields and geometry people need

* Well documented module to generate multivariate gaussian beams with a reasonably flexible parameter set

* Well documented module to track and write out Monte Carlo data

* Poorly documented and possibly buggy tracker digitisation

* Elementary but probably reasonable TOF digitisation - but no user documentation

What I think we need in order to perform an end-to-end Monte Carlo of Step IV:

# Step IV MICE "As-designed" (e.g. legacy/FILES/.../Step4.dat) set up needs to be checked and fixed - are the coil geometries correct? Can we get a reasonable beam through? What are the design absorber settings? Are they the same as what we have in Step4.dat - (owned by Pavel Snopok)

# Infrastructure - need to have central store of datacards, field maps, geometry, etc

# Functioning digitisation + MC for the tracker (owned by Chris Heidt)

# Trigger digitisation (what form should this take)?

# KL, EMR, Ckov digitisation (owned by detector subgroup)

# Scalars digitisation

# "As-built geometry" and CDB interface needs to be smoother (operational issue to do with getting geometries into CDB)

# Model for input beam/g4beamline interface (some work done by Maria Leonova + students)

# Clean up, debug src/legacy/Simulation/*

What I think we need to get a batch production system (owned by Janusz Martyniak at Imperial, needs oversight):

# Installation of MAUS on GRID + regular updates

# -Batch production script-

# Script to call the batch production, put it in data store

# Numbering system for real data, MC of real data, MC of "hypothetical runs"

# ... probably some stuff I forgot...

What I think we need to improve the "user experience":

# Quick start guide + examples (with some automated testing)

## Track a beam through and generate beta function/emittance plots

## Track a beam through and generate reconstructed data ->  residuals/emittance plot at the Tracker Reference Plane

## Anything else?

# -Documentation maus_user_guide.pdf should be available to download/htmlarised from the wiki-

# -MICEModules.pdf needs updating and integrating with maus_user_guide.pdf-

# Optics calculation needs to be tidied

# Python interface for extracting the field values 

# Automatic build of OpenGL visualisation

# Output of built physical components in verbose mode