Detector Conditions

The Detector Conditions for LHCb is based on the LCG-COOL project coordinated by the CERN IT-ES group.

CondDB TWiki Pages

• A How To guide for the general LHCb CondDB framework, including the procedure for submitting changes.
• A usage guide for choosing database tags when analysing LHCb data
• A description of the Geometry Framework.
• A description of the XmlConditions tree.
• A list of Open Issues

Packages

• Detector Condition packages: Det/DetCond and Ex/DetCondExamples
• CondDB Tutorial package: Tutorial/CondDB (obsolete)
• Geometry Framework package: Det/DetDesc
• CondDB User Interface package: Tools/CondDBUI
  • CondDBUI documentation
  • Conditions database browser

Tutorials, Notes, Presentations

First Conditions Database Tutorial (April 2006)

• Introduction, by Marco Clemencic (pdf)
• Use Cases, by Nicolas Gilardi (pdf)

Conference presentations and papers

• LHCb Distributed Conditions Database (transparencies) (proceedings) by Marco Clemencic
  International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP'07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2-7, 2007. Published on "Journal of Physics": Conference Series, Vol119, 2008
• LHCb Online Interface to the Conditions Database (transparencies) by Maria del Carmen Barandela Pazos
  International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP'07), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2-7, 2007
  
• LCG Conditions Database Project, by Andrea Valassi (pdf)  (CHEP 2006, February 2006)
• LHCb Conditions Database, by Marco Clemencic (pdf)  (CHEP 2006, February 2006)
• The LHCb Alignment Framework, by Juan Palacios (pdf)  (CHEP 2006, February 2006)

Other Reference Documentation

• New deployment model for SQLite databases [LHCb-INT-2012-013]
• Conditions Database LHCb note [LHCb-2006-017]
• The 2005 Computing TDR (pdf)
  
  • part 2.4: Conditions Database Services
  • part 2.5: Geometry Framework Services
• Using Conditions Database in LHCb, by Philippe Charpentier (pdf)
  [Presented 25/05/2005]
• LHCb Online and Conditions Database, by Clara Gaspar (ppt or pdf)
  [Presented 25/05/2005]
• Conditions DB and Update Manager, by Marco Clemencic (pdf)
  [Presented 25/05/2005]
• Conditions Database Browser Documentation, by Nicolas Gilardi (pdf)
  [Version v0r3: April 2006]

Contacts

LHCb-CondDB team

Project coordinators