sPHENIX discussion of software

["Huang, Jin" <jhuang AT bnl.gov>]

Right. Looks very useful simulation set to be produced to me. Thanks!

Jin

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Jin HUANG

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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Perepelitsa, Dennis
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 10:47 PM
> To: Huang, Jin <jhuang AT bnl.gov>
> Cc: Pinkenburg, Christopher <pinkenbu AT bnl.gov>; sphenix-trigger-
> l AT lists.bnl.gov; sphenix-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov
> Subject: Re: request for MB pp and pAu G4 sims for trigger studies
> 
> Hi Jin,
> 
> Thanks for following up on this late point. Yes, as discussed in the 
> meeting, I
> think it’s a good idea to have a “control” sample without the plug doors so
> we can evaluate the effects. I would suggest an alternate version of the pp
> MB events with steel IHCal to do this.
> 
> To sum up, this would bring us to 500k simulated events total, with the
> following event types / configurations:
> 
>       100k p+p MB, steel IHCal, plug doors
>       100k p+p MB, steel IHCal, NO plug doors
>       100k p+p MB, Al IHCal frame, plug doors
>       100k p+Au MB, steel IHCal, plug doors
>       100k p+Au MB, Al IHCal, plug doors
> 
> Is that right?
> 
> Dennis
> 
> > On Feb 13, 2018, at 3:18 PM, Huang, Jin <jhuang AT bnl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Dennis!
> >
> > Minor comment regarding item 2: as I understand from the last meeting, I
> assume we will also run the steel IHCal configuration twice, with and 
> without
> forward flux return door, in order to quantify the effect of background of
> flux return door on the barrel detectors, right?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jin
> >
> > ______________________________
> >
> > Jin HUANG
> >
> > Associate Physicist
> > Brookhaven National Laboratory
> > Physics Department, Bldg 510 C
> > Upton, NY 11973-5000
> >
> > Office: 631-344-5898
> > Cell:   757-604-9946
> > ______________________________
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Perepelitsa, Dennis
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 5:06 PM
> >> To: Huang, Jin <jhuang AT bnl.gov>; Pinkenburg, Christopher
> >> <pinkenbu AT bnl.gov>
> >> Cc: sphenix-trigger-l AT lists.bnl.gov; sphenix-software-l AT lists.bnl.gov
> >> Subject: request for MB pp and pAu G4 sims for trigger studies
> >>
> >> Hi Jin, Chris, and all (CC: simulations and trigger lists),
> >>
> >> We’re following up on the request for centralized MC production of MB
> >> p+p and p+Au events for trigger simulations.
> >>
> >> Here are our answers to specific questions raised during last week's
> >> Simulations meeting:
> >>
> >> 1. We do not need the G4 absorber to be in the simulation; it is safe
> >> to disable it.
> >>
> >> 2. If possible, we would like to have productions with two separate
> >> detector
> >> configurations: (1) the steel IHCal and (2) the uninstrumented Al IHCal
> frame.
> >> Just to check: we do want the full EMCal acceptance (we could always
> >> choose to ignore large-rapidity towers at the analysis level), and it
> >> is important to make sure the plug doors are included in the simulation!
> >>
> >> 3. As requested, we have prepared Pythia8 MB (for p+p) and sHijing
> >> (for
> >> p+Au) input events in HepMC format, 100k each.
> >>
> >> The Pythia8 MB events can be found at:
> >>
> >>    /sphenix/user/dvp/gen/MB/hepmc_MB_seq0XXXX.dat , where XXXX
> = 0000
> >> to 3999, and there are 50 events per file (so technically this is
> >> 200k total available events)
> >>
> >> The sHijing p+Au events can be found at:
> >>
> >>    /sphenix/user/dvp/gen/pAu_MB/sHijing_pAu_MB_200GeV_b0-
> >> 10fm_seq00XXXX.dat , where XXXX = 0000 to 1999 and there are 50
> >> events per file
> >>
> >> Please let us know if there are further issues,
> >>
> >> Dennis
> >>
> >> Dennis V. Perepelitsa
> >> Assistant Professor, Physics Department University of Colorado
> >> Boulder
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> Dennis V. Perepelitsa
> Assistant Professor, Physics Department
> University of Colorado Boulder
> 
>