Release Notes for the Calice Reconstruction Software v0.1.0rc2
Besides new features, an important bug was fixed which remained surprisingly undetected in the
previous release (see changes.).
Features:
- Hit signal calibration.
- Mokka conform cell indices.
- Drift chamber reconstruction (calibrated but not perfectly aligned yet).
- All constants are read from the conditions data base:
- ECAL calibration constants.
- ECAL channel mapping.
- ECAL geometry and cell positions.
- Drift chamber parameters: drift velocity, positions, time shifts.
- Experimental setup: rotation angle, nominal beam energy and direction.
- Support for cosmics data and test beam data:
- pedestal and noise calculation and tracking using events with physics triggers (for cosmics data).
- pedestal and noise calculation using random triggers (for test beam data).
- Hit search using a signal-over-noise or fixed threshold criterion.
- Units are: mm (spacial coordinates), mips (ECAL signal), GeV (energies).
- Position reconstruction using information from a conditions data base:
- module positions (correct geometry).
- module layout: cell positions and dimensions (correct geometry).
- channel mapping.
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- Flexible easy to use display framework. Provided displays:
- Event Display
- Histogram Display
- Raw Value Display
- Trigger Display
- Conversion of event and conditions data like records. The latter are provided via SimpleFileHandler
as conditions data.
- Processor to write conditions data to MySQL database.
- Simple conditions data browser.
- No useful detection and handling of trigger problems.
- Solution to convert trigger event and configuration data much simpler than in the "official"
conversion framework. Hopefully this scheme gets embraced.