LHCb Software Week
2-4 June, 1999

Revised Agenda (1.6.1999) (ppt)

Wednesday 9 a.m. Status of Algorithms (160/1-009)

News from developers of algorithms including, where possible, feedback on use of GAUDI Release 1.
- Progress with RICH pattern recognition algorithm  (ppt, ps):  D. Liko and N. Neufeld  20'
- Status of Muon algorithms (ppt, ps) :                                      P. Colrain                       20'
- Status of Calorimeter software (ps):                                       I. Korolko                      20'
- Status of Tracking software (ps) :                                           M. Needham                  20'
- Tools for physics analysis - status update (ppt , ps) :               G. Corti                          20'
- Experience with Objectivity using RICH testbeam data            M.Alemi                         20'
- discussion : summary of feedback on GAUDI v1

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Wednesday 2 p.m. Status of GAUDI v2 (160/1-009)

- Summary of new features in release 2 of GAUDI (ppt, ps)                    P.Mato            30'
- Implementation of writable storage based on ROOT I/O (ppt, ps)        M.Frank          30'
- First prototype of the LHCb detector description model  (ppt, ps)         R. Chytracek   20'
- Status of integration of Open Scientist in GAUDI (ppt, ps):                  G. Barrand       30'
- Integration of SICb software and data (ppt, ps)                                   G. Gracia          20'
- Guidelines on writing 'converters' for handling persistent data (ppt, ps)  P.Maley           20'

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Thursday 9 a.m.  Platforms and Tools for running SICb   (304/1-001A&B)

- Proposal for a dedicated LHCb Linux/PC batch facility at CERN(ppt, ps) :  C.Charbonnier  20'
- Status report on the Liverpool Farm project (MAP) (ppt, ps) :                      T. Bowcock      20'
- Use of CMT for managing new SICb software releases (ppt , ps) :        F.Ranjard         30'
- Project proposal for use of a database for MC productions (ppt, ps) :   J.Closier            20'

Thursday 11 a.m.  Libraries (304/1-001A&B)

- Libraries in use from LHC++ (clhep, HTL) (ppt, ps) :                     P.Binko                 20'
- Using the NAG (math) library  (ppt , ps):                                         M.Cattaneo           15'
- Status of ROOT I/O (RIO) package (ppt, ps) :                               G.Barrand              20'

 

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Thursday 2 p.m.  Simulation (304/1-001A&B)

- Overview on the GEANT4 simulation toolkit (ppt, ps) :               J. Apostolakis (IT/ASD)     60'
- Getting started with GEANT4 in LHCb :                                     discussion

Thursday 4 p.m.  Reconstruction  (304/1-001A&B)

- Proposal for organising LHCb Event Reconstruction (ppt, ps) :             M. Cattaneo    30'
- Discussion

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Friday 9 a.m. SICb (160/1-009)

  Status reports on all components: v118
- BeamPipe & Infrastructure description : A.Tsaregorotsev        20'
- New Magnet design:
    o  geometry                                          : A.Jacholkowska      10'
    o simulation tests summary:
        a)multiplicities & resolutions              : A.Jacholkowska      10'
        b)muon trigger                                  : P.Colrain                 10'
        d)RICHes                                         : G.Wilkinson            10'
- Calorimeters                                           : I.Korolko               20'

Plans for release of next version: v119
Implementation of stdHEP, Pythia 6.1xx and QQ (ps) : P.Koppenburg  30'
ALEPH generators                                      :                 A.Falvard         20'

Monte Carlo production - schedule
- plans (ppt, ps)                                                  : A.Jacholkowska 10'
- resources   (ppt, ps)                                         : J. Closier            10'

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Friday 2 p.m. Planning (160/1-009)

Discussion to plan the next phase of the work programme (ppt, ps) :