STAR QA Board

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

A quick note....
I was asked to look at this file, which is indeed a zombie (unclosed) file:
/star/data09/reco/production_pp500_2022/ReversedFullField/dev/2022/073/23073072/st_fwd_23073072_raw_7000063.picoDst.root

I can confirm that the production of this file saw an assert related to the 
magnetic field not being some expected value. The file wasn't closed, but the 
output was retained anyhow:

> zcat /star/rcf/prodlog/dev/log/daq/st_physics_23069021_raw_7000048.err.gz
...
root4star: .sl73_gcc485/obj/StRoot/Sti/StiTrackNodeHelper.cxx:670: int 
StiTrackNodeHelper::save(): Assertion `fabs(mPredPars.hz()-mTargetHz)<=1e-10' 
failed.
Abort

Someone could spend time debugging why that magnetic field wasn't as expected 
at that point in the reconstruction if this is a common problem.

Hope that helps,
-Gene


> On Mar 18, 2022, at 1:24 PM, Ting Lin via STAR-QAboard-l 
> <star-qaboard-l@lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> A brief minutes for today's meeting:
> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/qa/pwg-qa/run-22-qa
> 
> For Run-22 offline QA:
> 1). Run 23070009: TPC sector-by-sector hit distributions skewed. Gene found 
> that this was caused by a bad space-charge correction scaler in one file, 
> that caused the average hit positions to be shifted. Gene will zero out the 
> TPC status for a short period around this errant scaler so that the data 
> won't be used in analyses.
>  -> It also happen for day-66 last week. If the shift is > 10cm, it will 
> fail and stop the production. But this run is below this threshold.
> 2). Runs 23073028 – 033 have very low hit densities in most sectors in the 
> anode 3 & 4 region. Shift log reported very high, ~100% TPX and iTPC dead 
> time. Runs marked BAD by fast-offline QA.
> 3). Bad dE/dx mean and bands in run 23071024:
> 4). Also on day 073 the FCS trigger IDs were changed which affected the 
> trigger grouping assignments used for the st_fwd data stream. This caused 
> many of the “XX” triggers to be labeled “MB” in the fast-offline shift 
> reports. This was quickly corrected by Jeff Landgraf and Gene and only 
> affected a few runs from 23073070 – 074027. The QA shift crew (R. Witt) 
> corrected the entries (MB -> XX) by hand
> 5). Run 23074012: Bad dEdx mean, Almost empty dEdx bands Empty BTOF 1/ b 
> plot Almost empty MTD – TPC track matching plot. Usually these 5 plots are 
> either filled as usual, or are totally empty, e.g. when there is no start 
> -time. Shift log reported run stoppage to take out di -muon trigger.
> 
> From PWG:
> 1). Since last week, several mid-rapidity triggers like JP1 are discontinue 
> to increase the rate for forward upgrade.
> 2). LF group found that for Run23069019-031, no TOF information in picoDst 
> root files. Gene check the logfile, there are btof hits, but none of them 
> match to TPC tracks. Maybe calibration issues for these runs.
> 3). Continue to see double vz peak.
> 4). TPC Vz - VPD Vz = 5cm
> 
> Best,
> Ting
> 
>> -----Original Messages-----
>> From: "Ting Lin" <tinglin@sdu.edu.cn>
>> Sent Time: 2022-03-17 09:19:07 (Thursday)
>> To: "star-qaboard-l@lists.bnl.gov" <star-qaboard-l@lists.bnl.gov>
>> Cc: 
>> Subject: QA Board Meeting March 18
>> 
>> Hi all:
>> 
>> We will have a QA board meeting on Friday at noon BNL time.
>> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/qa/pwg-qa/run-22-qa
>> 
>> If you have slides to show, please link to the meeting page (in below 
>> link) or send it to me.
>> https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2022/03/18/QA-Board-Meeting
>> 
>> It is daylight-saving time now at the US, so the meeting will be one hour 
>> earlier than before for people in China. 
>> 
>> Join ZoomGov Meeting:
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>> Thanks.
>> Ting
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