Alice offline week

2 Oct 2006, 09:00 → 6 Oct 2006, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Federico Carminati (CERN)

Monday - VRVS in 'Moon' virtual root Tuesday afternoon 'Raw data' sesion - remote participation through VRVS (room 'Motorcycle') Wednesday aftenoon 'Calibration' session - telephone conference for US EMCAL contribution (dial +41(22)767-6542 and ask to join 'ALICE offline') Thursday session - remote participation through VRVS in 'Moon' virtual room

Monday, 2 October

09:00 → 20:05 Monday

09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Mr Federico Carminati (CERN)

Slides intro.ppt

09:45 Overview of the simulation

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

Slides ow_2_10_2006.ppt

10:30 break

11:00 New results with Fluka

Speaker: Arian Abrahantes Quintana (CEADEN)

Slides EnergyLossesOct2006.ppt neutronbackOct2006.pdf

11:40 Geant4-Root navigation interface

Speaker: Mr Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Slides g4nav.ppt

12:00 break

14:00 A short introduction

Speaker: Iouri Belikov (CERN)

Slides ToDo.ppt

14:10 Primary vertex reconstruction using the SPD

Speakers: Elisabetta Crescio (Universita degli Studi di Torino), Francesco Prino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)), Massimo Masera (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

Slides VertexerSPD-offl-oct06.ppt

14:25 Primary vertex reconstruction using the tracks

Speakers: Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), Elisabetta Crescio (Universita degli Studi di Torino), Francesco Prino (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)), Massimo Masera (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

Slides VertexerTracks-offl-oct06.ppt

14:40 Update on the TRD reconstruction: electron PID, remarks on ESD tracks, systematics in PDC06 data

Speaker: Silvia Masciocchi (GSI)

Slides talk.pdf

15:10 Common track parametrization in the barrel

Speaker: Iouri BELIKOV (CERN)

Slides CommonTrackParam.ppt

15:30 break

16:00 Factorization of the reconstruction features

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides Factorization_of_the_reconstruction_features.ppt

16:15 Update on the V0 classes

Speaker: Boris Hippolyte (Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS))

Slides AliceESDandAODStatusStrange.ppt

16:30 Evaluation of the d0 resolution from data

Speakers: Andrea Dainese (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), Andrea ROSSI (Padova)

Slides DaineseRossi.pdf DaineseRossi.ppt

16:45 MUON trigger chambers efficiency and quality with upstream reconstructed tracks

Speaker: Bogdan Vulpescu (LPC Clermont-Ferrand)

Slides report.pdf

17:05 Discussion

Speaker: tbc

Tuesday, 3 October

09:00 → 19:00 Tuesday

Raw data and detector commissioning.

09:00 Introduction. Raw data "tutorial".

Speaker: Cheshkov, C.

10:00 DAQ presentation

Speaker: Carena, F.

Slides dataFormat_Offline_2006-10.pdf dataFormat_Offline_2006-10.ppt

10:15 MOOD status

Speaker: Roukoutakis, F.

Slides AOffW-20061002-AID-Roukoutakis.pdf AOffW-20061002-AID-Roukoutakis.ppt

10:30 break

11:00 Reports from detectors

13:00 break

14:00 Reports from detectors (cont.)

17:45 HLT presentation

Speaker: tbc

18:00 Conclussions and Summary

Speaker: Cheshkov, C.

Wednesday, 4 October

09:00 → 18:00 Wednesday

09:00 Detector calibration readiness status

Speaker: Yves Schutz

Slides Calib_OfflineWeek.ppt

09:20 News on the OCDB access framework

Speaker: Dr Alberto Colla (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides NewsOnCDB_AliceOffWeek_041006.pdf NewsOnCDB_AliceOffWeek_041006.ppt

09:40 Status of the SHUTTLE

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides shuttle6.pdf shuttle6.ppt

10:10 Algorithm for DCS Archive DB data reduction

Speaker: Marian Ivanov (CERN)

Slides Algorithm_for_OCDB_Archive_DB_data_reduction.pdf Algorithm_for_OCDB_Archive_DB_data_reduction.ppt

10:30 break

11:00 Reports from the detectors

13:00 break

14:00 Reports from the detectors

16:00 Summary from the alignment workshop

Speaker: Adam Jacholkowski (Universita di Catania)

Slides Aliworkshop_highl.pdf Aliworkshop_highl.ppt

Thursday, 5 October

09:00 → 19:45 Thursday

09:00 Experience with the distributed data analysis

Speaker: Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens)

Slides DistributedAnalysis-OfflineWeek-October2006.pdf DistributedAnalysis-OfflineWeek-October2006.ppt

09:30 Analysis using PROOF on CAF

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)

Slides caf4.pdf caf4.ppt

10:00 Analysis framework

Speaker: Mr Andrei Gheata (CERN)

Slides

• AnalysisFramework.pdf
• AnalysisFramework.pdf
• AnalysisFramework.ppt
• AnalysisFramework.ppt

text Matrices-TGeo.pdf Matrices-TGeo.ppt

10:30 break

11:00 A proposal for an analysis framework for MC

Speaker: Dr Alexandru Bercuci (GSI Darmstadt)

Slides A.Bercuci_AliParticle.pdf A.Bercuci_AliParticle.ppt

11:20 Status of magnetic field analysis

Speaker: Ruben Shahoyan (NA60)

Slides ow051006rs.pdf

11:40 Status of the alignment

Speaker: Raffaele Grosso (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

Slides AlFrameUpdate.pdf

12:10 Visualization: requirements from the physics board

Speaker: Yiota Foka (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI))

Slides YF_EVE_OFFLINE_051006.pdf YF_EVE_OFFLINE_051006.ppt

12:25 Visialization of raw-data & digits: TPC example and discussion

Speaker: Matevz Tadel (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))

slides http://mtadel.home.cern.ch/mtadel/mydoc/aow-4.10.2006/viz-tpc.html

13:00 break

14:00 GRID and distributed computing

17:00 Requirements and proposals from the physics working groups

Speaker: Yves Schutz (CERN)

document http://pcaliweb02.cern.ch/Collaboration/PhysicsWorkingGroups/PWG3/AnalysisFrameWorkRequirementFromPWG3.pdf

Slides

• High-pt-analysis-requirements.pdf
• High-pt-analysis-requirements.ppt
• PWG2-StatusReport-OfflineWeek-October06.pdf
• PWG2-StatusReport-OfflineWeek-October06.ppt

Friday, 6 October

09:00 → 18:00 Friday

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a061172

09:00 Preparation for first physics with ALICE

agenda http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=a061172