COATJAVA release 6.5.6.1

Compatible with GEMC 4.4.0

Added features on 6.5.6 for RG-A/K

• Common-tools
  • Clas-analysis
    • Background merging tools added. These includes trigger-bit filtering, file splitting and event merging tools

Commits since 6.5.6

COATJAVA release 6.5.8

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.2

• Common-tools

  • decoder
    • EvioDataEvent now skip events larger than 500kb
  • evio2hipo
    • added decoding of CND fADC time
  • swimming
    • removed check on track vertex in SwimToBoundaryPlane

• Reconstruction

  • BAND
    • updated raw hits and their banks
    • added pointers from hits to ADC/TDC banks
    • updated reading of calibration constants from CCDB
  • CND
    • use swimming to calculate path length and track intersection
    • updated clustering algorithm
  • EB
    • added BAND detector
    • switch from hits to clusters for CTOF
    • new charge-veto algorithm for CD based on CND and CTOF
    • use trigger vertex for CD neutrals' beta
    • new REC::ScintExtras bank with cluster variables and dE/dx
  • TOF
    • updated clustering algorithm, with constants read from CCDB
    • modified clusters and hits banks to include pointers from hits to clusters

• Other

  • updated bank schemas to reflect bank changes
  • updated EB tests to use gemc 4.3.2

Commits since 6.5.6

COATJAVA release 6.5.6

Same as 6.5.3 with one change for gated beam charge.

Commits since 6.5.3

COATJAVA release 6.5.3

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.2

• Reconstruction:

  • DC
    • remove bad tracks whose fits diverge and result in NaN values
  • EB
    • drop unnecessary layers from REC::Traj to reduce bank size
  • RICH
    • fix quadrant definition
    • fix CCDB electron table reading
    • fix REC::ringCher and REC::hadCher banks variables
    • fix ray-tracing matching resolution
    • fix bank list for schemas

• Other

  • updated kpp-plot jar

Commits since 6b.5.2
Commits since 6.3.1

COATJAVA release 6b.5.2

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.1 and 4.3.2

• Reconstruction

  • CND
    • correct units of inter-layer gap
  • CVT
    • add cutoff on BMT multiplicity
    • add track status for CVT
  • DC
    • reject tracks with very large vertex
    • correct pathlength for DC trajectories
    • drop FMT trajectories
    • apply T0 corrections for MC for background merging
  • EB
    • preserve upstream trajectory ordering in REC:Traj
    • add RECFT banks to EB drop list
    • set REC::ForwardTagger.layer to 1
    • propagate new CVT track status to REC::Track
    • refactor DetectorParticle to better support simultaneous trajectories and POCA
  • FT
    • optimize hodoscope-calorimeter matching
  • RICH
    • add new CCDB tables for pixel properties and calibrations
    • add RICH::hadCher bank
    • refine refraction calculation at aerogel surface
    • define trajectory planes
  • RTPC
    • various updates

• Common tools

  • Swimmer
    • fix "unswimmable" tracks flag

• Other

  • update mon12 and kpp-plots jars

Commits since 6b.5.1

COATJAVA release 6b.5.1

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.1

• Common tools:

  • swimmer: reverted changes to cylindrical stopper

• Reconstruction:

  • CVT: further optimization of swimming for trajectories

Commits since 6b.5.0

COATJAVA release 6b.5.0

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.1

• Common tools:

  • ConstantsManager
    • limit number of failed CCDB connection attempts
  • Decoder
    • add BONUS
    • add signal amplitude to BAND::adc
  • Helicity analysis
    • retrieve clock/delay/pattern from CCDB
  • ReconstructionEngine
    • propagate error status from CCDB connection failures to Clara
  • recon-util
    • add RTPC to default engine chain
  • Roads
    • update dictionary maker to save sector number and ECAL energies
  • Swimmer
    • optimize stopper for swimToCylinder

• Reconstruction:

  • CTOF
    • use trajectory information for track intersection and path length in CTOF::hits
  • CVT
    • include CTOF and CND intersections in trajectories
    • use SVT geometry service
    • fix bug in space residuals
    • read beam spot from CCDB and use it in the fit
  • DC
    • fix chi2 calculation
  • EB
    • add REC*::Scintillator.dedx
    • change default REC*::Particle.chi2pid from 99 to 9999
    • remove more unused methods
  • EBTB
    • switch from DOCA method to now standardized trajectory surfaces
  • FT
    • fix bug in overlapping clusters
    • read hit/cluster thresholds from CCDB
  • RTPC
    • update RTPC banks to match GEMC and decoder
    • use new track disentangler and new formula for reconstructing hits
    • add support for cosmic studies and switching between simulation and real data
    • updated bank names and variable names
    • various bug fixes and optimizations

• Other:

  • update data.yaml to use wire-distortion corrections by default and include RTPC

Commits since 6b.4.1

COATJAVA release 6b.4.1

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.1

Common tools:

• use OptionParser for postprocessing

Reconstruction:

• fixed path length to CND

Build:

• updated DC unit test

Commits since 6b.4.0

COATJAVA release 6b.4.0

Compatible with GEMC 4.3.1

Common Tools:

• decoder extended to BONUS12 RTPC
• recon-util upgrade to read yaml files
• added RG-A's post-processing script

Reconstruction:

• DC: new FD tracking
• EB: use of non-TOF detectors for beta calculation
• ECAL: optimization of PCAL cluster reporting plane to remove parallax effect
• FTOF: fixes to matched cluster class, new time-walk functional
• RTPC: first version of reconstruction

Build:

• bin directory cleanup
• added dst maker script
• Travis upgraded to openjdk11

Commits since 6.3.1

COATJAVA release 6.3.1

Production release based on HIPO4 library, compatible with gemc 4.3.0

These release notes summarize the changes with respect to 6b.3.0.

Common tools:

• clas-detector:
  • Timestamp for CCDB access now with seconds resolution, e.g. 07/24/2019-12:24:36
    • backward compatible with old date-only format
  • Updated helicity analysis
• clas-jcsg
  • changed default precision for gemc geometries to 7 decimal places
  • CTOF mother volume name changed from 'fc' to 'root'

DC:

• DC wire distortions turned off by default
• Cut on maximum number of hits set to 2000; events with larger number of hits are skipped

EB:

• RF- and vertex- corrected particle start time added to REC::Particle and RECFT::Particle

Build:

• updated data.yaml for real data processing, reading DC constants from run group variation
• updated kpp-plots jar
• coat-lib version bumped to 6.3.1