Speaker
Vakhtang Tsulaia
(UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
Description
This talk addresses two issues related to the implementation of a variable software
description of the ATLAS detector. The first topic is how we implement an evolving
description of an evolving ATLAS detector, including special configurations at
varying levels of realism, in a way which plugs into the simulation and
reconstruction software. The second topic is how time-dependent alignment
information is incorporated into the detector model. Both types of functionality use
dedicated databases. The primary source of information for the detector
configuration is a relational database using a hierarchical versioning system. The
primary source of alignment information is the ATLAS conditions database, which is
organized primarily by validity interval and is accessed by various ATLAS
applications through COOL API. The two types of information are merged seamlessly
into a single, time-dependent transient detector store.
Primary authors
Andrea Valassi
(CERN)
Arthur Schaffer
(Laboratoire de l’Accelerateur Lineaire (LAL), Orsay)
Joseph Boudreau
(UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
Richard Hawkings
(CERN)
Vakhtang Tsulaia
(UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)
