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(If you are making a request of existing SP modes, you can skip this section.)

• Check out ProdDecayFiles in your working release directory and place the *.dec (and/or *.tcl) files there.

• Commit the new *.dec files via 'cvs add ' and 'cvs commit '. A BFMAIL message will be sent automatically to the keepers of ProdDecayFiles package. Please DO NOT make a new official tag, as SP Coordinator creates them at appropriate times after assembling requests by different people.

• Check out a new SP mode number for your signal mode via 'BbkSPModes --newmode' and following the instructions. This is done mode by mode, so if you have many, it will take a while.

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• Make an official request by sending an e-mail to SP Coordinator, AWG conveners, and other interested parties with the following informaiton:

  SP Mode Number, N_evt/fb-1, AWG name, "Comments"

• Allowed AWG Names:
  • Charm Charmon Chmls2b Chmls3b ChmlsQ2b Lept PAC PID RadPen SemiLep TDBC Tau/QED breco ihbd is-isr neut s2beta simdev tag trk

• One must of course test new decay modes thoroughly before making a request. If you are generating rare modes (in decay or production) that use many random numbers at Event Generator stage, then please make sure that Random number Overuse checker does not kill the jobs before 6K events per job (in SP9 production) are finished. A simple guide for minimally testing .dec files with GeneratorsQAApp can be found here.

• For large requests (>10M events), it is advised to get in touch with BaBar PAC and Software Coordinator and get an approval, in addition to alerting the AWG conveners.

The Obsolete SP Request Web page should be used only for accessing mode information and status.
SP Request subimissions via this page will be forsaken.