Monitoring Programs

A philosophy has been adopted for the primex software which is as follows: Each detector system (hycal, tagger, pair spectrometer, ...) will have its own library of reconstruction software. In addition, each system will have a program which will satisfy 3 criteria:

1. Produce plots (histograms, scatter plots, ...) which indicate the system is working properly.

2. Produce plots which enable one to derive calibration constants easily

3. Produce plots which check the quality of the existing calibration.

It is in this context that a number of programs have been developed for primex. These are:

• hycal_calib

• tagger_calib

• ps_calib

• tac_calib

• prim_monitor

These programs will all be run online to both check the functioning of the various detector systems as well as provide a means for quickly calibrating the detectors so that the quality of the data may be monitored as well.