STAR task force for evaluating tracking efficiency uncertainty

[David Stewart <david.j.stewart AT yale.edu>]

Hi everyone,

Here a summary of where I am at: I’m working verifying the transition of the Gmt simulation in the BFC from DEV2 to DEV. Running the two codes over the same input daq files produced many more entries in the DEV than in the DEV2 trees. Editing the StGmtClusterMaker code for some simple output, and also pulling results from the `StIOMaker output in the log file, it appears that some of this is the difference in the order the options are given to the BFC strings in my two runs. The two strings were originally:

• in DEV P2014a,btof,BEmcChkStat,gmt,gmtCosmics,gmtAligner,CorrX,OSpaceZ2,OGridLeak3D,NoHistos,noTags,noRunco,StiCA,evout
• in DEV2 P2014a,gmt,gmtCosmics,gmtAligner,btof,BEmcChkStat,CorrX,OSpaceZ2,OGridLeak3D,NoHistos,noTags,noRunco,StiCA,KFVertex,evout

Realigning the string DEV in short runs has made a difference in how many times different makers are called on events. I am running things in semi-longer runs with the DEV BFC chain set to match the order of inputs in DEV2 (but still omitting the KFVertex option), i.e.: P2014a,gmt,gmtCosmics,gmtAligner,btof,BEmcChkStat,CorrX,OSpaceZ2,OGridLeak3D,NoHistos,noTags,noRunco,StiCA,evout
and these are currently running.

I have had some troubles with libraries and environments which have been all, I hope, sorted out with helpful and prompt input from this emailing list, so thanks for that. My most recent trouble was jobs dying with the the messages:

StMaker:INFO  - *** StMaker::Make() == StERR(3) ***
StMaker:INFO  - TAttr::Found : .privilege = 0

root4star: .sl73_gcc485/obj/StRoot/StDetectorDbMaker/StDetectorDbChairs.cxx:1606: static StGmtOnModule* StGmtOnModule::instance(): Assertion `table' failed.

I assume this is due to the my not putting the StarDb (or StarDebDb) directories locally in my run director, and am rerunning with them them present. (If curious, see directory /star/u/djs232/gmt/dev/GMTdoc/gmt/v3 for current run). Thanks for your continued support and patience. There is some local knowledge of environment and software setup that I am still acquiring via a combination of trial and error and question and answer.

Best,
Dave

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