A. What do we do during our drift chamber shifts in the
commissioning period?
Here are 2 viewpoints that have validity.
1) Watch event displays and wait. Run monitor process
online or offline to look for problems, but don't solve
any of them. (not an efficient use of CLAS time).
Then, do full analysis off-line to plan next shift or run.
2) Run detailed analysis in MONITOR process or RECSYS
to look for problems. Solve them as found if felt to
be important. These would probably be mostly hardware
issues, but could also be software. At the same time,
events would be stored for later more complete analysis,
but surely less efficiently than in 1.
B. I understand from Jim Mueller that there
has been a lot of progress writing the off-line code,
RECSYS. That is great, many thanks to Francois! I hear
there is almost nothing written so far for the
MONITOR on-line process. What should go in the on-line
MONITOR process? Hists? Tests? Calculations?
Do we normally run RECSYS or MONITOR process to
do chamber commissioning (for whichever mode you like for
A)? At the moment, I understand
there is little beyond tracking in RECSYS, but it
also includes code for the other detectors.
(Although I use the words online with MONITOR and
off-line with RECSYS, I think both could be used
in either mode if we choose and are willing to do the
extra work.)
regards,
Steve Dytman