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<p>Please find the minutes below and at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_September_6,_2017#Minutes">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_September_6,_2017#Minutes</a>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Minutes">Minutes, September 6,
2017<br>
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<p>Present:
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<ul>
<li> <b> FIU </b>: Mahmoud Kamel</li>
<li> <b> Glasgow </b>: Peter Pauli</li>
<li> <b> JLab </b>: Thomas Britton, Eugene Chudakov, Sebastian
Cole, Sergey Furletov, Mark Ito (chair), David Lawrence,
Dmitry Romanov, Simon Taylor, Beni Zihlmann</li>
<li> <b> MIT </b>: Cris Fanelli</li>
<li> <b> Yerevan </b>: Hrach Marukyan</li>
</ul>
<p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://bluejeans.com/s/dS4jW/">recording of this
meeting</a> on the BlueJeans site. Use your JLab credentials
to access it.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements">Announcements</span></h3>
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<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-August/002914.html">Automatic
builds on new pull request working again</a>. The technical
difficulties were fixed.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-August/002921.html">Build
of tagged versions of mcsmear development branch</a> Both
v1.0 and v1.1 have been built at JLab now.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-August/002919.html">New
sim-recon release: 2.17.0 and new version set:
version_2.15.0.xml</a> This version of sim-recon allows use
of RCDB 0.02 which in turn allows use of Sascha Somov's new
trigger simulation code.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-August/002926.html">New
HDGeant4: 1.4.0 and new version set version_2.15.1</a> There
are several changes to HDGeant4 in this version. The build was
precipitated by the need fix the build to allow for inclusion
of the new TAC library.
<ol>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-September/002927.html">Building
Private Versions of GlueX Software: my_sim-recon.sh</a>
Mark wrote a wiki page describing a one-line command for
installing sim-recon and other GlueX software packages.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gluex-software/Z2CB-_KsFRU">MCwrapper
1.8</a> Thomas ran down the new features listed in his
announcement.</li>
<li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text"
href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2017-September/002929.html">ccdb_reduce.py</a>
David described the script to reduce the size of CCDB SQLite
files according to user specifications. We discussed whether
it should be included as part of the CCDB package. Dmitry will
have a look at suitability.</li>
</ol>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Material_Maps_added_to_CCDB">New
Material Maps added to CCDB</span></h3>
<p>David described the new maps added to the system. For details
and plots see <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/images/b/b8/20170906_material_maps.pdf"
class="internal" title="20170906 material maps.pdf">his slides</a>.
Some highlights:
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<ul>
<li> The existing maps brought up-to-date with recent version of
HDDS geometry.</li>
<li> Additional maps needed for the charged pion polarization
experiment have been added, including downstream detectors
(TOF, FCAL, FMWPC (Muon Detector)).</li>
<li> Methodology and approximation methods were discussed.</li>
<li> Map generation procedure has been updated.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline"
id="Review_of_minutes_from_the_last_meeting">Review of minutes
from the last meeting</span></h3>
<p>We looked over the <a
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GlueX_Offline_Meeting,_August_23,_2017#Minutes"
title="GlueX Offline Meeting, August 23, 2017">minutes from
meeting on August 23</a>. Work on HDvis has progressed; the
BCAL hits have been added to <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/talks/2017/HDvis2/js/event.html">the
display</a>.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Review_of_recent_pull_requests">Review
of recent pull requests</span></h3>
<ul>
<li> Sascha checked in his <a rel="nofollow" class="external
text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/sim-recon/pull/895">level
1 trigger simulator</a>.</li>
<li> Hovanes Egiyan has checked in a <a rel="nofollow"
class="external text"
href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/sim-recon/pull/899">library
for TAC analysis</a>.</li>
</ul>
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Mark Ito, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:marki@jlab.org">marki@jlab.org</a>, (757)269-5295
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