FWD Software

["Brandenburg, James" <jbrandenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi All,

Thank you for the productive meeting. Please find the minutes that I took 
below. If I missed anything please feel free to add or correct.

Best,
Daniel

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- FCS calibrations (Akio, Xilin, etc.)
  - Akio: Long discussion with Dmitri about interpolation (past and future DB 
entries)
  - Dmitri wants to store interpolated value for every run
    - easier / less stress on DB
    - Macros updated, being tested and then will upload
  - Xilin will give Dec 6th summary
  - David will check DEV version of the WFFMaker code - update in Dec 6th
- FST hot channel QA ( Te-Chuan)
  - Procedure for finding "hot" and "cold" channels
  - Several cases are understood because of modified HV
  - Others are not clear - need to check if the online thresholds were correct
  - Hot channels can be handled with the existing DB
  - Cold channels do not have a method - but are still reasonable. 
  - number of cold channels < 1 percent
  - check if possible to completely mask out channels
  - Te Chuan will investigate these and report them in the Dec 6th meeting
- Alignment (Gavin)
  - Outer senser alignment: shift in parameters for both outer sensors checked
  - Full track finding vs. MC track finding: Difference between the two
    - Daniel: main differnce is that full tracking may miss hits in silicon 
while MC track finder 
    - Open search window for Si hits? 
  - Gavin will give alignment update in the Dec 6th meeting
- sTGC geometry remaining issues (Nicole)
  - Nicole will send misalignment tables to include in geometry PR - able to 
close then
  - Nicole will give an update on the sTGC geometry remaining issues
- Software updates (Daniel)
  - Will give updates on sTGC slow sim
  - Will give update on StFwdTrack situation
- Plan for Dec 6th meeting
  - See notes under each topic. Will follow up with Zhen, Xiaofeng, Isaac and 
send a draft schedule by EOD
- AOB
  - Jason
    - No response about material budget bug, needs another round of follow-up
    - Need to ask: how does the AGML tag know which table to lookup?