Software Meeting time and Minutes

[David Lawrence <davidl@jlab.org>]

Hi All,

    Just a reminder for anyone who has not filled in the scheduler for 
the alternating weekly calorimetry/software meetings that you can do so at:

http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/ScheduleIt/scheduleit.php

I would like to finalize this by COB today so we know what the schedule 
will be for next week.


Also, I have posted minutes from Tuesday's software meeting on the wiki 
which can be found here:

http://www.jlab.org/Hall-D/software/wiki/index.php/September_11%2C2007_Software

and copied below.

Regards,
-David

==Minutes==

Attendees: David L. (chair), Elke A., Mark I., Elliott W., Simon T., 
Elton S., Dennis W.

Phone: Beni Z., Mihajlo K., Matt S.

===Announcments / Misc.===

# There seems to be a need for students to be able to check out from the 
repository and grab updates to their local copy without necessarily 
having a full CUE computer account so they can check things back in. 
David will look into this.
#:
# With the new semester, we need to revisit the meeting time to make it 
optimal for all attendees. David will set up the scheduler and announce 
it on the mailing list.


==Update pythia genreated events smeared about the target==

Beni presented the latest results from running pythia generated events 
through hdgeant. He has implemented code to disperse the events in z 
throughout the extended target. Angular distributions were shown for 
various particles (photons, pions, kaons and protons) for several 
momentum bins ranging from 50 MeV/c to 900 MeV/c.

Elke suggested producing a similar set of plots, but with a rough 
acceptance cut placed on the tracks. i.e. some minimum number of hits in 
the CDC/FDC for the charged tracks and some minimum energy deposited in 
the fiducial area of the calorimeters for neutrals. Beni said he would 
do this.

Beni's changes will also be checked into the svn repository once he has 
verified them a bit further (e.g. looked that the z-distribution of the 
"thrown" values is uniform and in the right limits)

==Report on CHEP07==
David reported on things he learned while at the Computing in High 
Energy and Nuclear Physics conference (CHEP 2007) last week. See 
[[Media:20070911_CHEP07.pdf|his slides]] for details.


==Action items==

Item 5 needs to be marked of [[Action Items From Hall-D Software 
Meetings|the list]].

Anonymous checkouts from the svn repository needs to be added.


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