Thoughts on Muon Quality

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Thoughts on Muon Quality
Headline on Weekly World News

• Perfectly good muon data wrecked!
• Usual suspects rounded up for questioning.
• Its happened two or three times to us.
• It could happen to you.
• It might be preventable.

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Points of Monitoring Quality Control
Good Runs List Detector

• Could be

Recorded Data Online
Alarms SES
Data- Taking
Reco Farms
Examine
Recorded Data Offline
Analysis Samples
Event Check And Marking
Good Runs List Reco Version Dep.
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Good Ideas (Melanson)

• Develop std. FILE-based Reco monitoring tools
  using Recostat Package to look at all objects
• Work w/ algo. ID groups to determine what
  should be monitored
• Develop standard macros, tuples?, plots
• Develop strategy to allow the FARM Shifter to
  plot stats, look for problems
• Interface w/ Good-Run database

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Good Ideas

• Listen to Dennis Shpakovs talk on event-level
  quality control.

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Summary

• Lots of points of Monitoring Quality Control
• We have some of them in operation now.
• Need to find support for two new points of
  quality control
• Post-Reco
• Event level

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