STAR QA Board

["Van Buren, Gene" <gene@bnl.gov>]

Hi, Zilong & Ting

Please take the following explanations as input for further discussions and planning...

The long-standing framework for Offline QA that has been used by the shift crews and subsystem experts for many years is easily modified to include any StEvent-based input. In its default operation, it requires primary vertices to be found in events for which it includes data into the histograms, as well as "production level" trigger ids in such events, but it was recognized long ago that there are times, particularly at the beginning of any Run year, when all events may be of interest, so a BFC chain option "QAallTrigs" enables this and should be included in any future requests for cosmic data if there is interest in viewing such data through this framework.

As for which data is processed through FastOffline, it is currently configured to automatically process st_physics stream files from non-test runs in which the TPC was included. However, any runs and files may be requested for production by the period coordinator and subsystem points of contact established before the Run year started.

Thanks,

-Gene

On Dec 2, 2021, at 9:49 PM, Chang, Zilong <zchang@bnl.gov> wrote:

Hi Lanny,

There may be a mis understanding here. I asked the STAR production team to produce the recently taken sTGC cosmic data. In the meantime I also talked with Ting and saw if he would be able to look at those data, and the answer was no. Now the production has finished the request and all the files are available on disk. I learned also that the sTGC group would have someone to look at the data.

However I think Ting brought a very important topic that we didn’t know if the offline QA code would handle the data from the new detector. The cosmic data provided a good opportunity to set the offline QA code up if I’m not mistaken. Given we have not  just sTGC but also the other two, FST and FCS, adding new features to the code is very important. As I said again, it was never early to be prepared. When the physics data came, we would just ran it. It is not my job to make the call. I agree with Ting, things should be discussed and sorted out during the future meetings.

Thanks,

Zilong

On Dec 2, 2021, at 8:57 PM, Ray, Robert L <ray@physics.utexas.edu> wrote:

Hi Ting:

Yes, fast offline only processes physics production data.

And yes, fast offline can handle additional detectors, please

contact Gene for details.

Thanks,

Lanny

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From: Ting Lin <tinglin@sdu.edu.cn>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 5:38 PM
To: Ray, Robert L <ray@physics.utexas.edu>; star-qaboard-l@lists.bnl.gov <star-qaboard-l@lists.bnl.gov>
Cc: mariusz przybycien <mariusz.przybycien@agh.edu.pl>; zchang@bnl.gov <zchang@bnl.gov>; van buren, gene <gene@bnl.gov>
Subject: Re: Re: QA Board Meeting Dec 3

 

Hi Lanny and Mariusz: 

Okay, but I think the cosmic has the same data format as collision data, so it mean the code is setup to only look at the collision data?

Another question, is it easy to add new variables into the offline QA framework, like sTGC variables?

Or maybe we can discuss this during the meeting tomorrow. 

Thanks. 

Ting 

-----Original Messages-----
From:"Ray, Robert L" <ray@physics.utexas.edu>
Sent Time:2021-12-03 05:00:33 (Friday)
To: "Mariusz Przybycien" <mariusz.przybycien@agh.edu.pl>
Cc: "zchang@bnl.gov" <zchang@bnl.gov>, "Ting Lin" <tinglin@sdu.edu.cn>, "Van Buren, Gene" <gene@bnl.gov>
Subject: Re: QA Board Meeting Dec 3

Hi Mariusz, 

Fast offline QA does not examine cosmic data. We are waiting for collisions 

and the declaration that physics quality collisions have begun. Hopefully this 

will happen later next week. 

Cheers, 

Lanny

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From: Mariusz Przybycien <mariusz.przybycien@agh.edu.pl>
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2021 2:30 PM
To: Ray, Robert L <ray@physics.utexas.edu>
Cc: zchang@bnl.gov <zchang@bnl.gov>; Ting Lin <tinglin@sdu.edu.cn>
Subject: Re: QA Board Meeting Dec 3

  

Dear Lanny,
I do not see any current runs in the web browser which is supposed to be 
used by the QA shifter.
If they are only available in the root files generated by Lidia, then I 
would need to know which ones exactly I should look at, and where can I 
find any reference histograms?

I will join the meeting tomorrow.

Best regards,
Mariusz




W dniu 02.12.2021 o 03:42, Ting Lin pisze:
> Hi all:
>
> We will have a QA board meeting tomorrow at noon:
> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/qa/pwg-qa/run-22-qa
> The agenda is below:
> 1. The progress on the BES-II data QA.
> 2. Run22 offline QA
>
> Ashik send an email before about the comparison of his and Li-ke's QA list, so we will discuss this.
>
> While for Run-22, Lidia send out an email said that the fast production for the cosmic data with Forward Upgrade detector is ready to use (in below path). It would be good to look at this if the offline QA shift people is available, as we will have collision data soon.
> /star/data97/reco/CosmicLocalClock_FieldOff/FieldOff/dev/2021/*/*
> /star/data97/reco/CosmicLocalClock_FieldOn/ReversedFullField/dev/2021/*/*
> log files on /star/rcf/prodlog/dev/log/daq
>
> Join ZoomGov Meeting:
> https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1618435669?pwd=L3B6M3JKcjRFMVFxQTNhaEdBdkZ5UT09
> Meeting ID: 161 843 5669
> Passcode: 194299
>
>
> Thanks.
> Ting

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