[Halld-offline] REST Format Minor Changes, Versioning?
Paul Mattione
pmatt at jlab.org
Fri Dec 19 10:18:54 EST 2014
I've made some minor changes to the REST format:
1) Breakup BCAL / Track DOCA into delta-phi and delta-z components (significantly different dependence)
2) Breakup TOF / Track DOCA into delta-x and delta-y components (can be significantly different (e.g. single-ended paddles))
3) Include TOF point "Status" (convolution of which bars were hit, and which ends had hits > threshold energy)
These changes are important for evaluating the quality of the hit / track matching, evaluating whether "neutral" showers might instead be parts of hadronic showers, and for matching tracks to TOF hits that don't have well-defined positions (e.g. hits in single-ended paddles that don't match to the other plane).
However, these changes break backwards compatibility. So you'll no longer be able to analyze (e.g.) Data-Challenge-2 data with code versions from here on. These changes needed to be done eventually though, and I thought it was important to do them now, before we create any official REST skims of the commissioning data.
Maybe we should start specifying/using different versioning for the REST files ... Richard, is this possible? If you could give me some instructions and sample code early tomorrow, maybe I can implement this before we launch ...
- Paul
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