sPHENIX HCal discussion

["Hodges, Anthony" <ahodges4 AT illinois.edu>]

Afternoon folks,  

 

As everyone makes progress on both their analyses and the production of the new dataset, we'd like to make note of one major housekeeping issue. As many of you know, software modules that apply calibrations (energy scale, bad tower masks, etc.) are kept in our core software repository. These are easy to keep track of and are frequently used, updated, and checked by our Jenkins system. However, code that creates the actual calibration constants themselves is not, and we're aware that a large portion of the code used to create the calorimeter energy scale coefficients does not yet reside in the sPHENIX GitHub. We'd greatly appreciate one big push by the respective creators/maintainers of any calibration currently in use to have their code checked into the sPHENIX analysis repository (https://github.com/sPHENIX-Collaboration/analysis) before the start of the next collaboration meeting (12/4).  

 

We understand this request also overlaps with the APS DNP meeting, but would like to remind everyone that the analysis repository is not under the jurisdiction of Jenkins and thus won't be code-checked like Coresoftware. Efforts to merge necessary pieces of code into Coresoftware will require more coordination and will converge as we finalize the production. Creating a fully automated system that produces analyzable DST's with all the bells and whistles at the push of a button will be a challenge, so adding these calibration modules to the analysis repository (alongside a small readme), will hopefully be an approachable first step. 

Please let us know if you have any questions or run into any problems. We're happy to answer any questions, 

-Anthony and Blair 

Anthony Hodges, PhD (he/him/his)

High Energy Experimental Nuclear Physics

Postdoctoral Researcher, NSF MPS-Ascend Fellow

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign