h1. PC14102015

Wednesday  14 October 2015 at 15:00 BST

Room CR09 RAL

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h2. Summary of Actions

|_.Task |_.Person |_.Added |_.Issue Number |_.Comment |

|Need MAUS Schedule for Alan Grant by next time |(CKOV: A.Liu, TOF: D. Rajaram, MC: D. Rajaram, Global: J. Greis)  |- |- |Done? |

|Add data_analyzable flag for each detector | Detector software heads |16/09/2015 |#1585 | |

|Look into TRefArray limits |A. Dobbs |- |#1759 #1663 | Fixed in merge branch, needed to reset a ROOT internal counter in single_thread.py |

|Provide C++ Reducer example |C. Rogers |- |- |Getting seg fault with current example |

|Fix problems when setting header_and_footer_mode to "dont_append" |C. Rogers, C. Pidcott |16/09/2015 |- |Could be SWIG |

|Refactor MAUS cross links to allow multi-threading |A. Dobbs |30/09/2015 | #1761 | Probably use std::vector<TRef> |

|CKOV onrec plot bug fix to be added to merge branch |A. Lui, A. Dobbs |30/09/2015 |- |A. Dobbs to merge when A. Liu provides branch |

|Restructure TOF Digitisation and incorporate MapCppTrigger |D. Rajaram |- |#1182 | |

|Add tracker efficiency plots to MAUS |P. Kyberd |16/09/2015 |- | |

|Optimize residuals for final tracks |C. Hunt |- |- | Done for straights |

|Fix close to paraxial tracks producing nan output |C. Hunt |- |- |  |

|Update tracker online plots |M. Uchida |- |- |  |

|Detectors to provide uncertainties from reconstructions on: positions; momenta; tof time |A. Dobbs |- |- | |

|Implement dE/dx in Runge-Kutta |J. Greis |- |- |Code done, needs to be verified |

|Fix cdb geometry download by run number |R. Bayes |16/09/2015 |- | |

|Verify scifi geometry correct in CDB | C. Heidt, P. Kyberd |30/09/2015 |- |Check by running with MAUS (use ID 671) |

|Verify KL geometry correct in CDB |M. Bogomilov |30/09/2015 |- |A. Dobbs to email M. Bogomilov |

|Add last TOF geometry updates to CDB |D. Rajaram |30/09/2015 |#1752 | |

|Finish beam sampling routines for G4BL output |R. Bayes |30/09/2015 |- |MPB may want to know |

h2. Release status

* Current release = 1.2.0

* Targets for release 1.3.0:

* Targets for future release:

** Trigger MC

** Fix memory leaks

** Tracker -- Kalman updates

** Updated tracker noise

** execute_against_data.py should be always make a tarball

h2. Schedule

* attachment:2015-10-14_MAUS-Schedule.ods

h2. Detectors

* Detector integration (D. Rajaram)

**  *ACTION*: Add data_analyzable flag for each detector (*Detector software heads*) #1585

* Tracker (P. Kyberd)

** Observe that tracks when visualised do not appear to line up between trackers, in both position and slope

** MC studies of effect of 1T field on tracker performance (P. Kyberd, Analysis Group)

** Space-point, track-finding efficiency studies partly blocked by lack of trigger #1182

** *ACTION*: Optimize residuals for final tracks (*C. Hunt*)

** *ACTION*: Fix close to paraxial tracks producing nan output (*C. Hunt*)

** *ACTION*: Update tracker online plots (*M. Uchida*)

** Flag low pt for downstream tracker reconstruction? (*A. Dobbs*) 

* TOF (D. Rajaram)

** Restructure TOF MC Digitizer - part of trigger MC (*D. Rajaram*)

* EMR (F. Drielsma)

* KL (M. Bogomilov)

* CKOV (A. Liu, D. Rajaram)

** Calibration

** Validate CKOV MC against data

h2. Global Reconstruction

* Tracking (J. Greis)

* PID (C. Pidcott)

* Detector output

** Get detector output in global coordinate system (*C. Heidt, C. Hunt*), see #1631

* *ACTION*: Detectors to provide uncertainties from reconstructions on: positions; momenta; tof time (*A. Dobbs*)

* *ACTION*: Implement dE/dx in Runge-Kutta (*J. Gries*)

h2. Monte Carlo

* Monte Carlo trigger (D. Rajaram) #1182

** *ACTION*: Restructure TOF Digitisation and incorporate MapCppTrigger (*D. Rajaram*)

h2. Geometry

* *ACTION*: Upload cooling channel tags to production DB (*R. Bayes*)

* *ACTION*: Fix cdb geometry download by run number (*R. Bayes*)

* *ACTION*: Verify scifi geometry correct in CDB now (*C. Heidt*, *P. Kyberd*)

h2. Online Reconstruction

* Have prototype GUI and prototype ROOT-based document DB to replace maus-web-app and django #1312 (C. Rogers)

* Software On Call (A. Dobbs)

** http://micewww.pp.rl.ac.uk/projects/maus/wiki/Software_on-call (SOC wiki)

h2. Batch Offline Reconstruction

* GRID running 1.0.0

** Enable MC GRID running again #1739

** execute_against_data.py to always produce tarball _Is this still relevant?_

h2. Infrastructure

* *ACTION* Need C++ Reducer example (*C. Rogers*)

* *ACTION* Fix geometry test which randomly produces large SOAP error (*R. Bayes*)

* *ACTION* Fix problems when setting header_and_footer_mode to "dont_append" (*C. Rogers*, *C. Pidcott*) 

* *ACTION* Refactor MAUS cross links to allow multi-threading - probably use std::vector<TRef>. #1761 (*A. Dobbs*) 

h2. Performance

* Speed improvements

** Fix memory leaks - preventing GRID running (A. Dobbs, D. Rajaram, C. Rogers)

* Beam generation excessive resource usage

** Query analysis group requirements (in particular how many G4BL beams we need)

** Consider alternative upstream beam generation code

h2. Tools

* Add V. Blackmore event visualiser to MAUS

h2. Documentation

h2. AOB

* Moving MAUS tarballs from heplnv156 to heplnm072

h2. International Toll-Free Dial-in numbers

* Switzerland:	0800705351

* UK:	08004960576

* US:	1-866-740-1260

* "Other numbers":http://www.readytalk.com/an.php?tfnum=8667401260

* Access Code: 5673390

h2. Notes

h3. Attendance

Present: R. Bayes, A. Dobbs, J. Greis, C. Hunt, P. Kyberd, J. Nugent, M. Savic

Apologies: C. Pidcott, M. Uchida

h3. Release Status

h3. Schedule

h3. Detectors

* KL

* Ckov

* EMR

* Tracker

* TOF

h3. Global Reconstruction

h3. Monte Carlo

h3. Geometry

h3. Online Reconstruction

h3. Batch Offline Reconstruction

h3. Infrastructure

h3. Performance

h3. Tools

h3. Miscellaneous