[G12] versions of mc tools

[Paul Eugenio]

Carlos,

We want the best gsim because we are trying to simulate the raw detector hits!    The physical  particles which made the detector hits are doing it correctly so we want to simulate it as correct as possible.

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Paul Eugenio
Physics Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306


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eugenio at fsu.edu

On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:00 AM, salgado at jlab.org wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> 
> The MC (gsim+gpp) simulates the hardware we used in g12 (magnetic
> field,geometry,...) and we must be sure that we are
> representing that hardware in the MC and, of course, the SAME hardware in
> a1c! For example, do different detector libraries represent different
> alignment and geometric values, materials, digitization,...? It seems to
> me that it will be safer to use the same libraries  (and those
> corresponding to the g12 run period)!
> 
> Carlos
> 
>>  g12ers,
>>     Last night I forgot to ask about which version of a1c one should
>> use when processing MC. I remember hearing that we should use the pass1
>> branch of the SVN repository so we're using the same code to cook real
>> data and MC data. However, do we want all MC-related tools to be built
>> from the pass1 branch, or just a1c? It seems strange to me to generate
>> detector responses with a GSIM linked against one version of detector
>> libraries and then reconstruct them with a1c linked against a different
>> version of the detector libraries. Perhaps all that matters is that the
>> detector libraries themselves are from pass1, since a1c mostly just
>> organizes input and output and sets up calls to those libraries. I have
>> no idea what GSIM might use the detector libraries for--I just know I
>> have to link them to get it to compile.
>> 
>> At present, ~clasg12/local/scripts/sample_gsim_desktop.sh uses tools
>> from the clas6 STABLE 32-bit build, which is not what was used for g12
>> pass1.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> --cb
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