Release Notes - HPS Java - Version 3.4.0

Release Date

Sept 10 2015

Jenkins Build

http://srs.slac.stanford.edu/hudson/view/HPS/job/hps-modules/1936/

Nexus Download

http://srs.slac.stanford.edu/nexus/service/local/artifact/maven/redirect?r=lcsim-maven2-releases&g=org.hps&a=hps-distribution&v=3.4.0&e=jar&c=bin

LCSim Version

3.1.4

Comments

Release for Engineering Run 2015 pass2 reconstruction.

Page 3 in this talk lists major improvements, some of which do not have JIRA items.

https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/193773195/hps-pass2-Sept9-2015.pdf

Bug

• [HPSJAVA-516] - Warning about scatter not found in GBL output driver
• [HPSJAVA-559] - Missing EpicsScalarData collection
• [HPSJAVA-564] - Bias constant times depend on client time zone

Improvement

• [HPSJAVA-488] - Refactor conditions API
• [HPSJAVA-517] - Restructure conditions tag data in the database and add new API classes
• [HPSJAVA-548] - LCIO-Persist x/y Positions Extrapolated from SVT tracking to ECal
• [HPSJAVA-554] - Change conditions import to accept CSV rather than whitespace delimited
• [HPSJAVA-562] - Add scaler data values to lcsim event header parameters
• [HPSJAVA-569] - Improved central sampling fractions from recent monte carlo
• [HPSJAVA-570] - Change start and end dates from Timestamp to Long
• [HPSJAVA-572] - Add tracking strategies that use layers 123, 345 and 456 as seeds
• [HPSJAVA-582] - Modify TrackDataDriver so it's able to process multiple Track collections
• [HPSJAVA-584] - Move Track-Cluster matching out of ReconParticleDriver into it's own utility class and set the cuts that will be used for pass 2
• [HPSJAVA-590] - Modify ReconParticleDriver so it's able to process multiple track collections
• [HPSJAVA-594] - Rewrite scaler data backend in run database
• [HPSJAVA-599] - HpsReconParticleDriver should vertex e-e- tracks
• [HPSJAVA-600] - Use 3D field map when matching tracks to clusters

New Feature

• [HPSJAVA-123] - Implement Data Quality Management module
• [HPSJAVA-195] - ECAL time walk correction
• [HPSJAVA-196] - ECal cluster time reconstruction
• [HPSJAVA-322] - Add trigger performance & monitoring plots to Online Monitoring
• [HPSJAVA-544] - Add ECal pulse widths to conditions system
• [HPSJAVA-550] - Add CSV import and export to conditions collection API
• [HPSJAVA-558] - Add API for accessing run summary information
• [HPSJAVA-560] - Add EcalPulseWidth to EcalChannelConstants
• [HPSJAVA-565] - SVT position constants in conditions DB
• [HPSJAVA-566] - Add SvtMotorPosition condition
• [HPSJAVA-567] - Add persistency of EPICS header to LCIO GenericObject
• [HPSJAVA-568] - Add export of EPICS data from EVIO files to CSV
• [HPSJAVA-574] - Add full event scalers to run db
• [HPSJAVA-575] - Add full event EPICS data to the run db
• [HPSJAVA-588] - Use the type of a Track as an identifier for the tracking strategy that was used
• [HPSJAVA-589] - Use TrackDataDriver to set the track type based on the tracking strategy used

Task

• [HPSJAVA-518] - Convert covariance matrix from CL to perigee frame
• [HPSJAVA-545] - Add test of ECal MC readout and recon job chain
• [HPSJAVA-556] - Remove shaded jar from conditions module build
• [HPSJAVA-577] - Remove creation of scaler data header from event builder
• [HPSJAVA-581] - Move DAQ and trigger packages from ecal-recon to record-util
• [HPSJAVA-587] - Remove unused beam conditions package
• [HPSJAVA-591] - Replace EPICS data implementation in run db
• [HPSJAVA-595] - Move run database from record-util to new maven module
• [HPSJAVA-596] - Move crawler from record-util to new maven module
• [HPSJAVA-597] - Remove aida remote dep from monitoring app
• [HPSJAVA-598] - Move datacat module from record-util to new maven module

Sub-task

• [HPSJAVA-130] - Choose DQM quantities for ECal MC monitoring
• [HPSJAVA-131] - Chose DQM quantities for tracking efficiency monitoring
• [HPSJAVA-193] - Create DQM plots for Trigger
• [HPSJAVA-243] - Determine effect of support opening angle misalignments
• [HPSJAVA-509] - Confirm recon output is correct when using database SVT alignments