h1. PC20012016

Wednesday 20 January 2016 at 15:00 GMT

Room CR09 RAL

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h2. Summary of Actions

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

|Fix Pattern Recognition bugs that cause loss in efficiency |A. Dobbs |06/01/16 |#1807 | |

|GRID MC running |D. Maletic, D. Rajaram |02/12/15 | |Needs a champion - D. Maletic? |

|Fix tracker coordinate system flips |Tracker group |18/11/2015 |#1792 |Mostly done now |

|Add data_analyzable flag for each detector in post processing to CDB | Detector software heads |16/09/2015 |#1585 | |

|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 |- |- |Almost ready for trunk|

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

|Generate G4BL library |R. Bayes |30/09/2015 |- | |

h2. Release status

* Current release = 1.4.0

* Targets for release 1.5.0:

** Fix tracker MC flip issues

** Optimised tracker helical pattern recognition 

* Targets for future release:

** Trigger MC

** Tracker -- Kalman updates

h2. Schedule

* attachment:2016-01-20_MAUS-Schedule.ods

h2. Detectors

* Detector integration (D. Rajaram)

**  *ACTION*: Add data_analyzable flag for each detector in post processing to CDB (*Detector software heads*) #1585

* Tracker (P. Kyberd)

** *ACTION* Fix Pattern Recognition bugs that cause loss in efficiency #1807 (*A. Dobbs*)

** *ACTION* Fix tracker coordinate system flips

** 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)

** attachment:maus151216_fd.pdf

* 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. Greis*)

h2. Monte Carlo

* Monte Carlo trigger (D. Rajaram) #1182

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

h2. Geometry

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?_

* Offline Rec running 1.3.0

h2. Infrastructure

* InputCppRoot still using JSON (and so super slow) (*D. Rajaram*)

* J. Greis reporting issues with the reducer API, related to #1762

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

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

* Fix matplotlib install (*A. Dobbs*)

h2. Performance

* Speed improvements for MC

* 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

h3. Event Viewer

* Add event viewer to MAUS #1799 	

h2. Documentation

* Update tracker (C. Heidt)

* Update geometry (R. Bayes)

h2. 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

R. Bayes, A. Dobbs, C. Heidt, F. Drielsma, J. Greis

Apologies: C. Hunt, M. Savic

h3. Release Status

1.4.0 waiting on EMR updates.

h3. Schedule

h3. Detectors

* KL

* Ckov

* EMR

OutputPyRootImage is seg faulting when tear down occurs in its test only. Disable test for now so can release MAUS 1.4.0, then continue working on fix.

* Tracker

A. Dobbs continue working on resolving pat rec efficiency problem

C. Heidt to work C. Hunt to address ongoing MC sign flip issues

* TOF

h3. Global Reconstruction

J. Greis still seeing bad tracker data in MC (y coordinate). Liaising with C. Heidt.

h3. Monte Carlo

h3. Geometry

Download by current geometry now working, removed from action list. Geometry is now good to go!

h3. Online Reconstruction

h3. Batch Offline Reconstruction

J. Nugent work derailed over Christmas by power cut affecting ScotGrid.  Need to make sure his submission scripts and associated data are backed up in future and available to wider CM. A. Dobbs will email him about setting up a Launchpad repository.

h3. Infrastructure

New item added to remove JSON from InputCppRoot 

h3. Performance

h3. Tools

h3. AOB

Next meeting: 15:00 GMT, 20th Jan 16