FTPC Review Software

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FTPC Review - Software

• Janet Seyboth for the FTPC group

• DAQ
• Online
• Calibration
• Databases
• Offline
• Documentation
• FTPC computers at BNL

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DAQ (Tonko Ljubicic)

• Map FTPC electronics to DAQ
• Gain table for DAQ
• remove noisy pads at the DAQ level
• still needs to be tested with Tonko

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Online

• Gas system control
• Windows/LabView program, no expert but runs since
  2001 without problems
• Drift Velocity Monitor (DVM) data sample
  collector
• Windows/LabView program, no expert but runs since
  2001 without problems
• FTPC Detector Operation Control
• Slow Control (Bill Waggoner)
• FTPC Slow Control Archive Browser
• Pad Monitor
• Online Tools
• evp Reader
• FTPC display program
• Online QA histograms (Panitkin plots) (Sergei
  Panitkin)

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Calibration

• Drift velocity maps
  StFtpcDriftMapMaker
• ExB effect, radius-dependent drift velocity
• Gas composition
• Laser analysis
  StFtpcLaserMaker
• DVM analysis
  StFtpcDVMMaker
• T0 adjustment
  StFtpcClusterMaker
• Radial step QA histogram
• Inner cathode offset correction
• TPC-FTPC alignment
• Difference between FTPC and TPC vertex
• Gain tables
  NoiseFinder
• Flag dead and noisy pads

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Databases (Michael DePhillips)

• Slow Control ? MySQL online data base ? MySQL
  offline data base
• Calibrations_ftpc/ftpcGasOut, ftpcGasSystem(?)
• MYSQL offline data base
• Calibrations_ftpc
• Geometry_ftpc
• Data base idl files StDb/idl
• Code parameters StarDb/ftpc

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Offline (Jerome Lauret)

• GEANT detector geometry description
  (Maxim Potekhin)
  pams/geometry/ftpcgeo
• FTPC Daq Readers StDAQMaker, StDaqLib
  
• Simulation
• Fast simulator StFtpcClusterMaker
• Slow simulator StFtpcSlowSimMaker
• Reconstruction
• Cluster Maker StFtpcClusterMaker
• Track Maker StFtpcTrackMaker
• QA histograms St_QA_Maker
  (Gene Van Buren)
• StFtpcUtil

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• Embedding (Eric Hjort)
• StFtpcMixerMaker
• Analysis
• StFtpcMcAnalysisMaker
• StFtpcAnalysisMaker
• ITTF
• StFtpc Makers in ITTF chain
• StiFTPC (Maria Mora-Corral Mike Miller)
  

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Documentation

• FTPC Web pages at BNL
• http//www.star.bnl.gov/STAR/html/ftpc_l/ftpc.html
  
• http//www.star.bnl.gov/protected/ftpc
• FTPC Web pages at MPI
• http//wwwstar.mppmu.mpg.de

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FTPC Computers at BNL (Wayne Betts)

• bond.starp (Gas Room)
• Windows/LabView
• Gas system DVM
• cassini.starp (Control Room)
• Linux RedHat 7.2
• Detector operations
• virgo.starp (Control Room)
• Linux RedHat 8.0
• Online monitoring
• MPI and Purdue PCs in 902b
• fonda.star, streisand.star, sarandon.star,
  andromeda.star Linux RedHat 7.2
• Purdue PCs