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FTPC Review - Software

Janet Seyboth for the FTPC group

• DAQ• Online• Calibration• Databases• Offline• Documentation• FTPC computers at BNL

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DAQ (Tonko Ljubicic)

• Map FTPC electronics to DAQ• Gain table for DAQ

– remove noisy pads at the DAQ level– still needs to be tested with Tonko

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Online• Gas system control

– Windows/LabView program, no expert but runs since 2001 without problems

• Drift Velocity Monitor (DVM) data sample collector– Windows/LabView program, no expert but runs since 2001

without problems

• FTPC Detector Operation Control• Slow Control (Bill Waggoner) • FTPC Slow Control Archive Browser• Pad Monitor• Online Tools

– evp Reader– FTPC display program

• Online QA histograms (“Panitkin plots”) (Sergei Panitkin)

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Calibration

• Drift velocity maps StFtpcDriftMapMaker – ExB effect, radius-dependent drift velocity

• Gas composition– Laser analysis StFtpcLaserMaker – DVM analysis StFtpcDVMMaker

• T0 adjustment StFtpcClusterMaker – Radial step QA histogram

• Inner cathode offset correction • TPC-FTPC alignment

– Difference between FTPC and TPC vertex

• Gain tables NoiseFinder – Flag dead and noisy pads

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Databases (Michael DePhillips)

• Slow Control → MySQL online data base → MySQL offline data base– Calibrations_ftpc/ftpcGasOut, ftpcGasSystem(?)

• MYSQL offline data base– Calibrations_ftpc– Geometry_ftpc

• Data base idl files StDb/idl

• Code parameters StarDb/ftpc

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Offline (Jerome Lauret)

• GEANT detector geometry description (Maxim Potekhin) pams/geometry/ftpcgeo

• FTPC Daq Readers StDAQMaker, StDaqLib

• Simulation– Fast simulator StFtpcClusterMaker

– Slow simulator StFtpcSlowSimMaker

• Reconstruction– Cluster Maker StFtpcClusterMaker

– Track Maker StFtpcTrackMaker – QA histograms St_QA_Maker

(Gene Van Buren)

– StFtpcUtil

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• Embedding (Eric Hjort)

– StFtpcMixerMaker

• Analysis– StFtpcMcAnalysisMaker– StFtpcAnalysisMaker

• ITTF– StFtpc Makers in ITTF chain– StiFTPC (Maria Mora-Corral + Mike Miller)

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Documentation

• FTPC Web pages at BNL– http://www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/html/ftpc_l/ftpc.html– http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/ftpc

• FTPC Web pages at MPI– http://wwwstar.mppmu.mpg.de

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FTPC Computers at BNL (Wayne Betts)

• bond.starp (Gas Room) – Windows/LabView– Gas system + DVM

• cassini.starp (Control Room)– Linux RedHat 7.2– Detector operations

• virgo.starp (Control Room)– Linux RedHat 8.0– Online monitoring

• MPI and Purdue PCs in 902b– fonda.star, streisand.star, sarandon.star, andromeda.star

Linux RedHat 7.2– Purdue PCs