h1. PC16092015

Wednesday 16th September 2015 at 15:00 BST

Room CR09 RAL

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h2. Summary of Actions

* *ACTION*: Fix tracker geometry plane ordering bug (*C. Hunt*)

* *ACTION*: Look into TRefArray limits (*A. Dobbs*)

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

* *ACTION*: Get detector output in global coordinate system (*C. Heidt, C. Hunt*)

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

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

* *ACTION*: Update tracker schedule (*P. Kyberd*)

* *ACTION*: Update ConfigurationDefaults with tracker optimum parameters (*P. Kyberd*)

* *ACTION*: Set HelicalPR on or off depending on CDB value of magnetic field (*C. Hunt*)

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

* *ACTION*: Make current beamline geometry available in CDB (*R. Bayes*)

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

* *ACTION*: Need C++ Reducer example (*A. Dobbs*) _C. Rogers will provide one_

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

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

h2. Agenda

h3. Release status

* Current release = 1.0.0

* Targets for release 1.1:

** execute_against_data.py should be always make a tarball

** Support for gcc 4.9

** Updates to Geometry handling

** EMR reducer

** SciFi CDB interface

** SciFi mapping and calibration update

* Future release

** Updated tracker noise

** Workbook added 

* Targets for future release:

** Trigger MC

** Fix memory leaks

** Tracker -- Kalman updates

h3. Schedule

* attachment:2015-09-16_MAUS-Schedule.ods

h3. Detectors

* Detector integration (D. Rajaram)

** Reconstruction quality flags (*A. Dobbs* to make requests to detector groups) #1585

* Tracker (P. Kyberd)

** Tracker plane ordering bug _Fixed in trunk, mapping error corrected_

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

** 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 (*P. Kyberd*)

** *ACTION*: Update tracker schedule (*P. Kyberd*)

** *ACTION*: Update ConfigurationDefaults with tracker optimum parameters

** *ACTION*: Set HelicalPR on or off depending on CDB value of magnetic field (C. Hunt)

** 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)

** MC #1033

* KL (M. Bogomilov)

** *STANDING*: MC validation, optimization, tuning, #1411

* CKOV (A. Liu, Drews, Winter, D. Rajaram)

** MC Digitizer update attachment:MAUS_Ckov.pptx.pdf

* Monte Carlo trigger (D. Rajaram) #1182

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

h3. Global Reconstruction

* Tracking (J. Greis)

* PID (C. Pidcott)

* Detector output

** *ACTION*: Get detector output in global coordinate system (*C. Heidt, C. Hunt*)

*** See #1631

** *ACTION*: Need uncertainties from detector reconstructions: on positions, momenta, tof time (*A. Dobbs*)

* *ACTION*: Implement dE/dx in Runge-Kutta (*M. Uchida*)

* Need uncertainties from detector reconstructions: on positions, momenta, tof time (*A. Dobbs*)

h3. Unpacking

* Need to roll out SL6 to Jenkins nodes (*P. Franchini*)

* DAQ channel maps to DB (*D. Rajaram*) #1375, blocked by #994

h3. Batch Reconstruction

* GRID running 1.0.0

** Enable MC GRID running again #1739

** execute_against_data.py to always produce tarball

* Fix memory leaks

h3. Infrastructure

* Geometry/MC (S. Ricciardi, R. Bayes)

** *ACTION*: Make current beamline geometry available in CDB (*R. Bayes*)

* Need C++ Reducer example (*A. Dobbs*)

* Documentation

h3. Online

* Online reconstruction (A. Dobbs)

* 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)

h3. Performance

* Speed improvements

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

** YK proposes parallelising MAUS with C++11 multi-threading, at the mapper level, see #1638 (A. Dobbs, D. Rajaram, C. Rogers, Y. Karadzhov)

*** Extensive refactor work

* Beam generation excessive resource usage

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

** Consider alternative upstream beam generation code

h3. Tools

* Add V. Blackmore event visualiser to MAUS

h3. Documentation

h3. AOB

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

Apologies: A. Dobbs

h3. Release

* Trunk ready to go except for scifi cdb interface (almost there)

h3. Detectors

* Detector Integration

* KL

* Ckov

* EMR

* Tracker

* TOF

h3. Global Reconstruction

h3. Unpacking

h3. Batch Reconstruction

h3. Infrastructure

* Geometry

* MC

* G4BL

* Other

h3. Online

h3. Performance

h3. Tools

h3. Miscellaneous