TileCal Commissioning: offline software and analysis

ATLAS Releases

As of October 1st 2006 Release 12.0.3 + some extra tags should be used for the reconstruction of commissioning data. Working setup with all aditional packages can be found in /afs/cern.ch/uset/t/tilebeam/commissioning/reco-12.0.3

Reading of calibration constants from COOL is switched off by default and only default CIS calibration is applied (which is 1023/800 ADC counts/pCb for low gain). We don't have database which contains CIS constants for all modules and moreover, it's not possible to provide Cesium calibration constants for them. Anyhow, latest COOL database with calibration constants can be always found in /afs/cern.ch/user/t/tilebeam/online/conditions

Detector Description

We are using full ATLAS Detector Description for simulation and reconstruction of the commissioning data. GeoModel tag ATLAS-DC3-02 is good enough, but any newer tag can be used.

Simulation

will be updated soon

Calibration constants

CIS calibration constants can be calculated inside Athena snd stored in POOL file (see UsingTileCalibAlgs). After that the POOL file can be registered in COOL database with TileC tool. For the moment we are using pcata007 as the database server and will migrate to coolpro soon. Reading of these constants back is possible with current release (12.0.X), one can activate reading from COOL by adding two lines in jobOptions:
tileUseCOOL = True
include( "TileCOOL_jobOptions.py" )
For the moment only very few calibration constants are stored in COOL. Once we have CIS data for all modules, we'll put constants in the database. Remember that Cesium calibration constants are not available for Cosmics runs, so GeV scale for TileCells can not be set and energy in TileCell objects will be the same as in TileRawChannels, namely pCb (factor 0.5 - 2 from GeV).

Reconstruction

If you know how to run Athena and how to edit jobOptions file, all you need to know is the name of jobOptions file, it is jobOptions_TileMobiComm.py and jobOptions_TileMobiCosmic.py from TileCalorimeter/TileExample/TileRecEx package. The first one is tuned for calibration runs like CIS, Ped, LED, MonoCIS. The second one is used for reconstruction of cosmic data. There are a lot of comments in these jobOptions files. It's enough to provide run number and run type at the command line and you'll have ROOT ntuple and/or monitoring histograms as output. If something is not clear, read detailed instructions at TileMobiDAQReconstruction page.

Ntuple created with jobOptions_TileMobiCosmic.py is identical to the TileCal testbeam ntuple which we had in the past. The only difference is in the naming of the drawers: at the testbeam we had A0, A1, A2, C0, C1, C2, E0, E1, E2 and in commissioning ntuples we should have A13, A14, A45 A46, C13, C14, C45, C46. And if arrays in ntuple are ordered according to channel number instead of PMT number (convenient for CIS analysis), name of the arrays will contain hex fragment ID ( e.g. 100, 101, 102, 200, 201, 202) as it was before.

Event Filter Monitoring

TileMonitoring package in Athena contains several algorithms which can be used at the Event Filter to create monitoring histograms. The same package has special algorithms to create Level 1 commissioning histograms Instructions how to setup this package are given at separate page.

Analysis

List of runs taken in the pit as well as list of available ntuples is given at TileMobiDAQAnalysis page

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Major updates:
-- SanyaSolodkov - 15 Jun 2005 -- SanyaSolodkov - 25 Oct 2006