COMPASS OFFLINE
Meetings Software Inputs
Reconstruction Physics
MEETINGS and MAILING LISTs
- An analysis meeting is normaly scheduled every month,
- dates and minutes.
- Transparencies
are available from October 2003 on.
- Smaller dedicated
meetings are organised during the
same week.
- Have a look at the meetings
in the next 7 days
- A weekly meeting is held
every Thursday at 14:30 in 892-1B09. This is more technical and addressed
to people really involved in the analysis.
- Compass
offline mailing list is used for general information. (to
register click on "check-in" or "update" at the top of
the mailing list page)
- Technical questions should
be posted to coral-weekly@cern.ch.
- archive
(enter user and mailserv password).
- Register
through SIMBA. click on "Search for and Manage lists", then if
you have no nice/Email password click "Request password" (see
detail documentation in "Subscribing to a list")
- internal seminars and COMPASS seminars
obsolete: Coral Weekly minutes (stopped after may 2002)
Off-line Board (last
meeting July 2001)
RECENT
WORKSHOPs
SOFTWARE
- Computing farms
- Account
Administration on LXPLUS farm at CERN
- GridKa, the German computing farm in
- CCF and CDR
Compass Computing Farm and Central Data Recording
- LSF
the batch system
- AFS
the file system
- Compass software tools
- Raw data are
decoded using
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
The COMPASS
- COOOL is an
online tool, running on raw data, which can also be used for some offline
tasks, like detector performance studies.
- A tool for testing new
versions of Coral (read manual.ps)
- general software tools or
documentation
- ROOT,
the object-oriented data analysis framework (son of PAW).
- CVS:
the code management system used at COMPASS
- A list of books and
WEB links for self-training
- A series of tips to
marry C++ and Fortran programs
- The old CERNLIB
still contains a lot of useful things
- CERN Oracle Doc. Page
(accessible only from CERN)
- STL
Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
- CLHEP ref.
manual V1.8 user
guide V1.7 ref.
manual V1.7
INPUTS
- Data and production
- data are stored
under CASTOR : manual,
user
guide
- List of periods and runs
(dummy)
- production
version used for each period NEW
- DST production
statistics DST production page
DST production manual
(obsolete)
- stability
bad spills, data grouping
- physics inputs
- Luminosity see note
COMPASS 2006-5
- Definitions
(reference frames, detector names, ...)
- F2 , R
- radiative
corrections
- dilution factor
RECONSTRUCTION
PHYSICS ANALYSIS and RESULTS
- Released results approved
by Compass Publication Committee
- Delta
G/G: high transverse momentum (a password is
needed, ask someone working on high pt for it)
- Delta G/G: open charm
- Transversity
- Lambda
(use usual password)
- Physics
with hadron beam