Charge for the GlueX 2006 Software Workshop

At the recent (June 2006) Lehman review, reconstruction software was strongly emphasized as a place to focus GlueX manpower over the next year. The intent was to use the simulation and reconstruction to validate the detector design as much as possible prior to the CD-2 review in 2007. In response to this, a software workshop will be held where presentations will be given summarizing specific milestones that have been met to address this goal. Specifically, the workshop shall serve as a turning point in which individual pieces of reconstruction code have been completed allowing studies of the GlueX detector as a whole to proceed. To meet this goal, the participants are charged with the following:

1.) Verify the simulation (HDGeant) has the most up to date geometry and materials definitions for every subsystem. This should include support structures and cabling where appropriate.

2.) Verify the simulation output contains enough information to properly mimic the actual detector responses for each subsystem (see GlueX-doc-654). This should include detector resolutions and possibly electronic noise, but need not include "invertable" values such as pedestals and ADC conversion factors.

3.) Verify simulation properly models backgrounds, in particular, accidentals.

4.) Reconstruction code needs to be in place for each subsystem at a level that it can produce output in physical units from the simulation input. All outputs should be well documented so collaborators unfamiliar with the subsystem can still use it in studies of the GlueX detector as a whole.

5.) Form a prioritized list of studies that should be completed prior to the CD-2 review and assign manpower to each. These should include studies of physical channels with high multiplicity final states.