[Halld-offline] FCAL Calibration: Data vs. MC

[Mark M. Ito]

Matt,

On 09/18/2014 06:45 AM, Matthew Shepherd wrote:
> HDGEANT reports energy deposited in a block, however
> this still needs "calibration" (now done at post-reconstruction
> shower level) due to systematic shifts resulting from
> energy loss.  This is now done in DFCALShower_factory
> which is a level above the clusterizer:  DFCALCluster_factory.
I get this; the energy reported from HDGeant does not include any energy 
losses outside the calorimeter.
> The question is, do we calibrate the detector such
> that the result of calibration is actual energy in GeV or
> the output of HDGEANT?  (Maybe the difference between
> these is imperceptible, but I don't think it will be.)
I am probably missing something obvious here, but I don't understand the 
difference, imperceptible or not.

   -- Mark