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MC Production - Home Page

SP10: Current Production status (by site, generics, table).

SP9: Current Production status (by site, generics, table).

SP8: Current Production status (by site, generics, table).

SP6: Final Production status (by site, generics, table).

SP5: Final Production status (by site, generics, table).


General User

  • Latest News (August 8, 2008)
    • Matt Bellis is currently transitioning to take over SP coordination. Go Matt!
  • Recent News (January 30, 2008)
    • Documentation on SP10 production is currently in construction. See links below.
    • David Norvil Brown and Yue Hu took over SP coordination from Peter Kim on about September 1, 2007. Thanks to Peter for his excellent work.
  • Current News (June 18, 2007)
  • Recent News (June 5, 2007)
    • SP9/Run6 production now in 22.1.1d with kk2f updates.
    • Due to various complications, SP9 is very much behind schedule: New target is to generate Generics and Priority Signal modes (Jan-Apr 2007) by the June 15 deadline and the rest soon after.
  • Old News (May 15, 2007)
    • SP9/Run6 production started with Release 22.1.1c.
    • Plan is to generate all Generic Events and most of Signal Modes for Jan-May 2007, to be available for Summer conferences.
    • SP6 is officially retired.
  • Old News (Dec 15, 2006)
    • SP8 production of both Generic and Signal Modes is complete.
    • SP5 is officially retired.
  • Old News (June 6, 2006)
    • SP8 production resumes after Fixing the Background Frame Bug (First 2000 background frames in each month being used repeatedly for the whole month). Generation of both Generic and Signal MC in Run5b, up to Apr. 2006, will be finished by end of June.
    • Sample Signal modes (See the postings in validboard-hn by AC) generated to study the physics impact can be found in SP-xxxx-F2KTest dataset. New signal requests made in June are also stored in the same F2KTest dataset for now.
  • Old News (Apr 1, 2006)
    • WARNING NOTICE: Early SP8 Events with GEANT bug are now marked as "bad". To access those events, use both SP-XXXX and SP-XXXX-G4Bug datasets/tags. Complete Geant-bug-free SP8 Production (up to Jan. 2006) should be finished in a few weeks.
  • Current Releases
    • SP9 release: 22.3.0a/22.3.2c (For Run 6)
    • SP8 release: 18.7.0p/18.7.0s (For Run 1-5, ending in Aug. 2006)
    • SP6 release: 14.4.7c (Run 4) ** Last release **
    • SP5 release: 12.6.1a (Runs 1-3) ** Last release **
  • What's already available?
    • For CM2 data in general use BbkSPModes and BbkDatasetTcl. For example
      • BbkSPModes --decfile B0B0bar_Breco_DX+DstarX_cocktail.dec
      • BbkDatasetTcl SP-2222
    • For SP8/SP9 data use 'BbkDatasetTcl --dbname bbkr18' (default on 18 and 22 series releases)
    • For SP5/SP6 data use 'BbkDatasetTcl --dbname bbkr14' (default on 14 and 16 series releases)
    • (Obsolete) For Objectivity data use skimData. For example
      • $BFROOT/bin/skimData --tableprefix objy -I ">=A12.4.0b" -s SP
        --spruns 'B- -> D0 K*- (D0 -> K- pi+ pi+ pi-)' --tcl --goodruns 2001000-2999990
    • (Obsolete) Look at this SP5 inventory page;
    • (Obsolete) Use the search page;
  • Make a Request:
    • Requests can only be made by your AWG representative.
    • Check if there is an existing mode (with or w/o existing MC) you could use.
    • If you need new MC, get permission from your AWG Convenors.
    • Go to this web page to add new modes and/or make requests.
  • Track Your Request:
    • There is currently no good way to track a request.
    • Use BbkDatasetTcl to check data availability.
    • (Obsolete) To find out the status of your request, use bfreport or colldb or skimData.
    • For example
      • bfreport -d 550630
      • bfreport -G 4 -d -c "B- -> D0 K*- (D0 -> K- pi+ pi+ pi-)"
  • SP4:
    • For SP4 go to this web page.

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