Hi Folks,<br><br>I have several summer students that will be presenting posters at the fall DNP meeting as part of the Conference Experience for Undergraduates (CEU) program (<a href="http://www.lanl.gov/dnp/undergraduates.htm">http://www.lanl.gov/dnp/undergraduates.htm</a>). Abstracts for the posters are due Aug 1. Below are three abstracts from students. Please let me know what you thiink of them.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Jerry<br><br>-------<br><br>C.J. Musalo, G.P. Gilfoyle, J. Carbonneau<br><br>Simulation of the CLAS12 Forward Electromagnetic Calorimeter<br><br> The primary mission of Jefferson Lab (JLab) is to reveal the quark and gluon structure of nucleons and nuclei and to deepen our understanding of matter and quark confinement. At JLab there is a need for high-performance computing for data analysis and simulations. The precision of many experiments will be limited by systematic uncertainties and not statistical ones; making accurate simulations vital. A robust CLAS12 simulation is currently being developed called gemc, where Geant4 is used to simulate the components of CLAS12. We have added the electromagnetic calorimeter (EC) detector to the gemc simulation. The EC is a sampling electromagnetic calorimeter made up of alternating layers of lead and scintillator used to detect electrons, photons, and neutrons. We have streamlined the mathematical model of the EC geometry. The geometry is stored in a mysql database on a server at JLab. Using perl, we modified this geometry database with our streamlined equations. We tested the new geometry by sending straight tracks (no magnetic field) through the edges of specific layers using the geantino, a Geant4 virtual particle that doesn’t interact with materials.<br>
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<br>M. Moog, G.P. Gilfoyle, and J. K. Carbonneau<br>
<br>Simulating the Neutron Detection Efficiency of the CLAS12 Detector<br>
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We have studied the expected performance of the CLAS12 detector that will be built at Jefferson Lab as part of the 12-GeV Upgrade. The Upgrade hopes to further our understanding of the internal structure of nucleons by studying nucleon properties such as form factors and generalized parton distributions. The initial round of experiments for the 12-GeV Upgrade include ones that require neutron detection and we are studying the neutron detection efficiency in preparation for such experiments. A precise knowledge of the neutron detection efficiency is required to keep systematic uncertainty low in these experiments. Previously we studied the CLAS12 performance by generating the four-momenta of an electron and neutron after a relativistic, elastic collision and passing these data into the GEANT4-based simulation program gemc. The code uses the four-momenta of these particles and simulates their interaction with the components of the detector. We then reconstructed the events with the program Socrat. By comparing the number of measured elastic, electron-neutron coincidences to the number of elastic electrons detected in the simulation we extracted the efficiency of one of the outer time-of-flight scintillator panels. We built on this previous research by using the full array of time-of-flight scintillators in the simulation and expanding the range of the neutron momentum.<br>
<br clear="all">-------<br><br>J. K. Carbonneau, G. P. Gilfoyle, and E. F. Bunn<br> <br>Development of a Computing Cluster At the University of Richmond<br><br>The University of Richmond has developed a computing cluster to support the massive simulation and data analysis requirements for programs in intermediate energy, nuclear physics, and cosmology. It is a 20-node, 240-core system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We have built and installed the physics software packages (Geant4, gemc, MADmap...). The system has a theoretical processing peak of about 2500 GFLOPS. Testing with the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmarking program (one of the standard benchmarks used by the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers) resulted in speeds of over 900 GFLOPS. The difference between the maximum and measured speeds is due to limitations in the communication speed among the nodes; creating a bottleneck for large memory problems. As HPL sends data between nodes, the gigabit Ethernet connection cannot keep up with the processing power. We will show how both the theoretical and actual performance of the cluster compares with other current and past clusters, as well as the cost per GFLOP. We will also examine the scaling of the performance when distributed to increasing numbers of nodes.<br>
<br>-- <br>Dr. Gerard P. Gilfoyle<br>Physics Department <br>University of Richmond, VA 23173 USA <br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:ggilfoyl@richmond.edu">ggilfoyl@richmond.edu</a><br>phone: 804-289-8255<br>fax: 804-484-1542<br>