Minutes for D0 Simulation Meeting

Meeting Date: January 17, 2001 (Wednesday)

Meeting Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Meeting Location: 9th Circle

This meeting is devoted to the discussion of simulating pileup with real data.

Right now all the overlapping events are from MC minbias. But for Run II analysis, we need to be able to do the overlapping events with the real data minbias events. The current situation is that we have
SimChunk --> digiChunk --> unpackChunk --> RawDataChunk
In order to use pileup package to do the overlapping, We need to reverse the above chain and need to do this with: RawData --> unpack --> digi --> sim
The steps from rawdata to unpack and from unpack to digi are exist. The tasks need to be done: M. Hildreth: Why not do pileup on digi chunks?
Serban: This will need to rewrite the pileup package.
Laurent: Pileup at digi level will loose information. e.g. digi can be after threashold cut.
D. Coppage: digi to sim will not give z position, only strip position in x and y.

M. Hildreth agreed to provide a scheme as a proposal. Then each subdetector will look at it and decide what to do for their detector. Mike will send the proposal next week.
May 1: CFT will be ready.
June 1: The rest of detectors will be ready.


Qizhong Li