1. MC ’04-’05 objectives
                                                      

2. MC ’04-’05 production test proposal
Get the ball rolling!
Platform for testing items nominally done or near completion
Additional items to inserted in a second production test
Features:
100 pb–1 of all_phys card at LSF = 0.2
Standard scripts and offline machinery
Results written to tape library
MCDST's produced.
Delete files after study to make way for 2nd test or real production
Timescale: 01-Sep-05
Built-in realism regarding August: treat this as firm deadline

3. Items for production test: Summary
Status
New IR geometry
Ready
EmC energy response ?
EmC timing resolution adjustments
Work
New cluster efficiency parameters
Nuclear interactions/regeneration
New secondary decay generators
LSB (background) insertion
SQZ (compession) fix
Cell/cluster index fix

4. MC work 1/9: Geometry and IR
Simulation of new IR
Geometry added to MC, new card IRTY added (CB)
Status: Ready for production test
New card to specify beam-crossing angle
Add BCAN card (TS) to GEANFI
Official production: Angle calculated from HepDB values
Private production: No way to specify (fixed at rad)
Status: Not necessary for production test
Good idea to add ASAP for individual users

5. MC work 2/9: EmC energy response
Attenuation lengths in endcap modules
Short/central modules have different attenuation lengths; these were reversed in MC
Status: Simulation fixed (CB), ready for production test
Calorimeter energy scale calibration:
Disable extra y-dependent attenuation factor for endcaps in CLUADJUST module
Need further studies: y-dependence of endcap response, overall energy scale
Status: Futher work requires following items:
Fix attenutation lengths, extra factor in CLUADJUST
SQZ fixed so MCEL cluster energies can be re-read
Can results of a production test be used for further tuning?

6. MC work 3/9: EmC clusters EmC time resolution
Common smearing in simulation (140 ps) zeroed (CB, done)
Add common smearing at T0_SMEAR level (MM)
Add cluster smearing in EMCSIMUADJ or other module (MM)
Status: Above items need to be completed.
Testing requires a few pb–1 f  p+p-p0 (CG)
Can be done with output from production test?
Cluster efficiency
New parameters for cluster efficiency curves to be put into EMCSIMUADJ and tested (MP, TS)
Status: Parameters exist, need to be inserted
Would be nice to have for production test

7. MC work 4/9: Generators f  p+p-p0 generator
FN has a new generator that uses the matrix-element approach.
GEANFI interface not yet done, critical for testing.
Need to add sQED FSR amplitudes.
Status: Needs work, probably not needed for first production test
Secondary generators
KS  p+p-e+e- generator (CG) added (CB) with BR = 4.7 × 10–5
p0  e+e- decay generator added with BR = 6 × 10–6 (CB)
p  en decay generator added with BR = 1.23 × 10–4 (CB)
Status: Above items can be looked at in production test
Probably require dedicated testing as well
KS  p0e+e- generator (FB, VP) still needs to be interfaced

8. MC work 5/9: Nuclear interactions
GEANFI nuclear interactions/regeneration code
Original CASK0 code restored as CASK0C, except that regeneration is disabled (CB)
CASK0B is called for interactions in calorimeter
CASK0C is called elsewhere (e.g., DC walls and beam pipe, where regeneration is handled separately)
Status: Testing requires several 10's of pb–1
Can probably be handled in production test
Do we plan any work for charged kaons?

9. MC work 6/9: Trigger Comprehensive data-quality control for trigger
Done up to run (MP, BS)
Bad runs flagged and/or reconstructed files deleted (MM, BS)
Other work on trigger
Simulation of time smearing in high-jitter/bad RF period
Adjustment of DC threshold simulation
DISH maps
Status: Nice to incorporate any/all of above in production test.

10. MC work 7/9: DC response DC tracking resolution: s-t relations
Various volunteers: AA, PDS, MM, TS
Status: No work on solution underway yet
DC tracking resolution: multiple scattering off DC wires
SK interested in working on this problem
Status: Studies beginning, will not condition production test
Correlated noise in DC for charged kaons
Volunteers: EDL, PDS + charged kaon group
Simulation of dE/dx response
Status: VP has A_C module ready, can incorporate in test?

11. MC work 8/9: Background LSB insertion code
Code exists, tested standalone (MM)
Work on scripting to be done (MM)
Status: Necessary for production test
Fixes to CELE structure
Need to add a new field to CELE structure with original CELE index into bank.
Need to modify FILLCSPSMC_CEKA to use this index (MM) Status: Necessary for production test

12. MC work 9/9: Technical issues
SQZ library
Packing parameters different in GEANFI and KBK modules
Certain MC truth values wrongly scaled or offset on re-reading
MCEL energies (scale ×5)
Particle TOF (e.g., K+) (offset +100 ns)
Unclear why a problem (packing parameters stored in I-banks)
Workaround module FIXIS exists (MM)
Status: Necessary for production test

13. Items for production test: Reprise
Status
New IR geometry
Ready
EmC energy response ?
EmC timing resolution adjustments
Work
New cluster efficiency parameters
Nuclear interactions/regeneration
New secondary decay generators
LSB (background) insertion
SQZ (compession) fix
Cell/cluster index fix