Agenda 07-Feb-2006 Telephone Meeting

1. Notes from 24-Jan meeting

2. Updates
   • Monitor application test code - George
   • Position resolution in test beam data - earlier study by Mark Stockton (to start discussion)

3. Discussion of task list - volunteers

4. Plans for LCWS
   • Test beam data analysis
   • WW/ZZ separation plot - 0.3/sqrt(E)?
   • Detector optimisation: variation of length, B field, radius, granularity (longitudinal and transverse)
   • Presentation of MAPS (concept, backed up by some performance indicators, h/w and s/w aspects)?? Less likely
5. Next steps

Task list

Analysis

1. Energy resolution vs. energy, angle
2. Position resolution vs. energy, angle
3. Angular resolution vs. energy, angle
4. Comparision and tuning of simulation to data
5. Comparision of calibrations in cosmics vs. real data
6. Efficiency, dead space between pads and wafers

Electronics/DAQ understanding

1. Coherent noise
2. Crosstalk
3. Shaping times
4. HOLD timing setting

Reconstruction

1. Tracking calibration, alignment, material mapping and track fitting
2. Pedestals vs. time, noise vs. time
3. Pedestals vs. ttemperature, noise vs. temperature
4. Cosmics data, new vs. old gain
5. Comparison of electronics calibration, cosmics calibration, electron beam calibration
6. Systematic production of reconstructed data files for all runs

Run planning

1. Optimisation of missing slab positions; where to place inactive slabs if not received sufficient wafers
2. Need for electronics calibration; how often?
3. Need for/from electron beam calibration; scan of each pad?
4. Recording physical configuration (photos/survey of drift chambers, scintillators)

Run monitoring

1. Immediate online monitoring
2. Semi-online bin file monitoring
3. Semi-online LCIO monitoring
4. Book keeping during shifts
5. Recording test beam conditions (from accelerator)

Simulation

1. Digitisation of tracking hits, remove low energy sim hits
2. Storing truth particle positions at tracking chambers and ECAL front face
3. Digitisation of ECAL; add noise (channel-by-channel), threshold, time-dependence due to preamp shaper, crosstalk, coherent noise
4. Systematic production of standard MC samples of 100k events
5. Systematic production of digitised and reconstructed simulation samples from the above