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GSIM Focus Group Project List 1998
GSIM Focus Group Project List 1998
(Asterisk means project is completed; order is alphabetical; people with no current or completed projects in 1998 are not listed. )
Available projects
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Implement Cerenkov counter efficiency function in GSIMKO.
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Design and implement a scheme to add background to simulation.
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Design and implement a scheme to add out-of-time tracks to simulation.
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Address the `double-counting' issue in CELEG resulting from using both deep inelastic scattering and resonance scattering.
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Add missing reactions to CELEG (K-Lambda).
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Update branching ratios in CELEG.
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Obtain background events for GSIM (obtained from data or simulation).
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Design and implement trigger simulator.
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Make a list of which detector components are included in the simulation.
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Find and fix source of file-wise inefficiencies seen by Richard Thompson.
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Find and fix potential problem near target region seen in pi plus studies.
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Burin Asavapibhop
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Add tagger-related banks to GSIM (with Franz Klein).
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*Get time-based tracking to work in GSIM.
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*Do prototype study of time-based tracking for GSIM elastically scattered events.
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*Coordinate the time offsets between GSIM and the reconstruction programs (with Joe Manak and Laurent Farhi).
Will Brooks
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Look at chi-squared distribution of charged particles from GSIM, compare to data.
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Organize GFG meetings; keep and distribute meeting minutes.
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Investigate strategies for handling decaying pi+ particles in acceptance calculations.
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*Run time accounting utilities on GSIM (with David Rowntree and Kyungseon Joo).
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*Study of run time and data size for events with electrons going into coils (with Will Brooks).
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*Generate and document a benchmark set of GSIM input files.
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*Systematic study of effects of GSIM cuts and other parameters on speed (with David Rowntree and Jianguo Zhao).
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*Estimate the required size of the distributed compute farm based on number of events needed and GSIM speeds.
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*Determine the correct method for error estimation for acceptance calculations (with John Price).
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*Obtain a pseudo-teleconferencing system for group meetings.
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Carry out CELEG/GSIM runs for E1 running conditions.
Bryan Carnahan
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*Discovered and fixed problem with K-zero decay in CELEG (with Dan Sober).
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*Discovered a problem with charged pion decays in material-free regions (with Dan Sober).
Phil Cole
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Event generators ?
Hall Crannell
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*Create geometry for photon beam cryotarget in GSIM.
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Create geometry for electron beam cryotarget in GSIM.
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Install target geometries into GSIM (with Maurik Holtrop).
Volker Burkert
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*Perform initial estimates of how many GSIM events are needed for analysis.
Larry Dennis
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Create and implement a scheme for fast monte carlo simulations (FSIM, with Si McAleer).
Laurent Farhi
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*Coordinate the time offsets between GSIM and the reconstruction programs (with Joe Manak and Burin Asavapibhop).
Rob Feuerbach
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Provide a scheme in GSIM allowing independently oriented DC volumes.
John Hardie
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Organize and carry out the transition from GEANT 3.21 to GEANT 4 (C++) (with others).
Maurik Holtrop
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*Modify random number generation in GSIM to include automatic seeding.
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*Implement the electron shower parameterization into GSIM (with Dave Tedeschi).
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*Optimize the TOF volumes in GSIM for faster running.
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*Improve the clas_step routine in GSIM.
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Set up UNH farm for GSIM running.
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Design and document a `fast' mode of GSIM running.
Kyungseon Joo
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*Perform first DOCA smearing and dead wire map application, analyze results.
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*Evaluate the effects of multiple scattering and the intrinsic DC resolution on time-based tracking.
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*Design and implement a scheme for handling the time-to-distance relation in Recsis and GSIM, including resolution effects (with Dennis Weygand).
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*Add automatic smearing of event vertex (with Dave Kozicki).
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*Run time accounting utilities on GSIM (with David Rowntree and Will Brooks).
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Fix DOCA bank platform dependence.
Andi Klein
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*Set up ODU's batch farm for GSIM processing.
Franz Klein
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*Study the effect of the magnetic field grid size on simulated data.
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Add tagger-related banks to GSIM (with Burin Asavapibhop).
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Implement polarized target field in GSIM (with Junho Yun).
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Create and implement new BOS parameter banks for GSIM (and CELEG?).
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Implement decaying particles into MCTK/MCVX banks.
Dave Kozicki
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*Add automatic smearing of event vertex (with Kyungseon Joo).
Costy Loukachine
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*Do first prototype cooking of GSIM data with production code on farm
Joe Manak
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*Coordinate the time offsets between GSIM and the reconstruction programs (with Burin Asavapibhop and Laurent Farhi).
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*Modify GSIMKO to permit using dead wire map without doing time smearing.
Si McAleer
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Create and implement a scheme for fast monte carlo simulations (FSIM, with Larry Dennis).
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Trigger simulator.
Gabriel Niculescu
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Design a scheme for combining events from different event generators (with Dan Sober).
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Derive single particle acceptances from GSIM events for electron scattering for general use.
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*Test the simulated data from different farms/platforms to determine if they're systematically different.
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Study particle losses (especially protons and kaons) in CLAS.
John Price
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Fix the elastic scattering cross section in CELEG.
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*Improve the format of the input parameter file to CELEG.
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*Determine the correct method for error estimation for acceptance calculations (with Will Brooks).
Greg Riccardi
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*Make prototype script for GSIM running/control based on database IO.
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Develop full-blown script for GSIM running/control based on database IO.
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Make a web page generator to track GSIM runs.
David Rowntree
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Measure reconstruction efficiency for charged particle tracking in GSIM.
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*Run large-scale simulations needed for Bonn and Sante Fe conferences.
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*Managed first long GSIM runs on MIT farm.
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*Run time accounting utilities on GSIM (with Will Brooks and Kyungseon Joo).
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*Systematic study of effects on run time and accuracy of turning off secondaries in each volume (with David Rowntree).
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*Study of run time and data size for events with electrons going into coils (with Will Brooks).
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*Systematic study of effects of GSIM cuts and other parameters on speed (with David Rowntree and Jianguo Zhao).
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*Design and implement a scheme which does not process events which have zero acceptance for electrons.
Cole Smith
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*Run large-scale simulations needed for Bonn and Sante Fe conferences.
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*Fixed problem of kaons not decaying in material-free regions.
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*Modify AO to produce BOS format output.
Dan Sober
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*Discovered and fixed problem with kaon decay in CELEG (with Bryan Carnahan).
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*Discovered a problem with charged pion decays in material-free regions (with Dan Sober).
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Design a scheme for combining events from different event generators (with Gabriel Niculescu).
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Investigate designs for implementing radiative effects in CELEG (with Gabriel Niculescu and Ralph Minehart).
Stepan Stepanyan
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*Make a prototype electron shower library scheme.
Dave Tedeschi
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*Implement the electron shower parameterization into GSIM (with Maurik Holtrop).
Mike Vineyard
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*Systematically test the electron shower parameterization.
Alex Vlassov
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Derive Cerenkov counter efficiency function for use in simulation.
Dennis Weygand
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*Design and implement a scheme for handling the time-to-distance relation in Recsis and GSIM, including resolution effects (with Kyungseon Joo).
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Implement resolution as a function of position into GSIMKO.
Junho Yun
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*Run large-scale simulations needed for Bonn and Sante Fe conferences.
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Implement polarized target field in GSIM (with Franz Klein).
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*Managed first long GSIM runs on ODU farm.
Jianguo Zhao
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*Systematic study of effects on run time and accuracy of turning off secondaries in each volume (with David Rowntree).
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*Systematic study of effects of GSIM cuts and other parameters on speed (with David Rowntree and Jianguo Zhao).
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