sPHENIX HCal discussion

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi John,

I kicked off 1000 particles sims for pi,e,p in the eta ranges you 
mentioned with a +-10 cm vertex smearing in a 10deg phi range with the 
nominal configuration after Jin added Birk correction for the inner 
hcal. Some jobs are still ongoing (and some will run forever there is a 
script issue somewhere). The output goes to:

/gpfs02/phenix/prod/sPHENIX/sunyref/

fieldmap for field on data, zerofield for field off. Those should be 
good for code development and a first look. Today I'll see what can be 
done about the zero tilt angle and adapting the inner hcal to the outer 
hcal.

See you just now,
Chris


On 7/29/2015 7:48 AM, John Haggerty wrote:
> I was thinking about the plots we'll need to come out of the ongoing
> simulation workshop and the work that will follow it, and I was thinking
> that rather than defining all the plots we want right now, I'd suggest a
> way to preserve the information we want so that we can not only make the
> plots we want, but have a way to archive the results, update them, and
> create a uniform look to the plots.
>
> I'm going to focus on the single particle studies for now, but we might
> be able to extend this to jet studies as well.
>
> The basic idea is that we summarize the single particle studies in an
> ASCII file that can be imported into ROOT as a TTree or TGraph, an Excel
> spreadsheet, a database... whatever.  We characterize the distributions
> in a general way and store it in a row of the table.  We can then
> generate plots of anything we want pretty quickly, and be able to fix up
> axis labels and colors and whatnot without going back to the data.
>
> Does that sound like a workable approach?
>
> I probably haven't thought of everything, but the columns I can think of
> right now are (with some redundancy and some luxury items) are below (I
> would stick to numbers to make it easier to parse):
>
> - run number (so we can go back to data if necessary)
> - number of events
> - B field
> - active detector systems (I would use a bitmap, but whatever)
> - If it's a variant on the reference design, we'd need a way to identify
> it, maybe a version number
> - input particle type
> - incoming angular range
> - For each calorimeter section (EMCAL, IHCAL, OHCAL, and the combination?):
>     o mean
>     o sigma
>     o Gaussian fit mean
>     o Gaussian fit sigma
>     o Characterization of low end and high end tail--I can think of
> several methods, but that needs some thought
>
> I think that's enough to make the basic linearity and resolution plots,
> show what kinds of tails the distributions have, correct for sampling
> fraction in different ways and the other basic information we need to
> show, although I may have forgotten something, or perhaps someone sees a
> flaw, or even better, ways to extend it and make it more general.  Maybe
> we can have a small subcommittee to discuss this today while we are
> together.

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