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COMPASS OFFLINE

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Meetings | Software | Inputs | Physics | Old analysis related issues (before 2003)

MEETINGS and MAILING LISTs

• An analysis meeting is normaly scheduled every month,
• Transparencies are available from October 2003 on.
• Subgroup meetings are organised during the same week, cf. /afs/cern.ch/compass/Talks/SubGroups
• Have a look at the meetings in the next monthes


• A Coral weekly meeting is held every Thursday at 14:30 in 892-1B09.
• This is more technical and addressed to people really involved in the software development.
• Technical questions should be posted to coral-weekly@cern.ch
• Coral Weekly minutes


• COMPASS seminars

SOFTWARE

• Computing
• Account Administration on LXPLUS: anne.lissajoux@cern.ch
• GridKa, the German computing farm in Karlsruhe can be used by all Compass members
• CC IN2P3, the computing farm in Lyon is also available.
• LXBATCH the batch system
• AFS the file system


• Compass software tools
• DaqDataDecoding library
• Time dependent inputs, like calibation and slow control data, are stored in a MySQL DataBase
• CORAL makes use of the 2 previous tools to reconstruct event and produce mDST files
• PHAST, the PHysics Analysis Software Tools is used to read mDSTs and perform analysis (PHAST FAQ)
• COMGeant, a Monte Carlo simulation program based on Geant 3.21
• TGeant a Monte Carlo simulation program based on Geant4.


• Software tools/documentation
• ROOT the object-oriented data analysis framework
• SVN the code management system used at COMPASS
• The oldCERNLIB still contains a lot of useful things
• CERN Oracle documentation page
• STL Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
• CLHEP (reference manual V1.8)

INPUTS

• Data and production
• Data are stored under CASTOR: /castor/cern.ch/compass/data
• Production versions used for each period
• Mass mDST production statistics
• Test mDST production statistics
• Stability bad spills, data grouping
• Physics inputs
• Defintion of beam track, scattered muon and vertex
• Luminosity: see COMPASS Note 2010-10
• Definitions (reference frames, detector names, ...)
• F2 , R
• Radiative corrections
• Dilution factor
• HEPGen++ (Monte Carlo generator for exclusive reactions)

PHYSICS ANALYSIS and RESULTS

• Released results approved by the Publication Committee

OLD ISSUES (before 2003)

• Montly off-line meetings
• SMOG meetings
• COW meetings

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