sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

P.S. I didn't give credit where credit is due - Ejiro found that the 
tiles are actually okay and got us on the right track.

On 2/18/2023 10:01 AM, pinkenburg via sPHENIX-l wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> just for the record. In yesterday's computing presentation I mentioned 
> a fresh problem which had cropped up that morning in our simulation 
> which seemingly was caused by the epd.
>
> It turns out it was a combination of other software issues which 
> ganged up against the epd. Some upstream code modified the printouts 
> for floats globally so small energies were reported zero (the reason 
> for the zero energy hits in the epd) and a bad interface in the tower 
> container made the epd tiles look empty. The epd itself is fine, we 
> are working on taking care of the problems which shouldn't take long.
>
> Sorry about that
>
> Chris

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