Updated:  Aug 17, 2002

    A list of outstanding tasks related to the MINOS reconstruction software is presented below.  Where
possible, persons known to be actively working on a task are indicated. Additional help is more
than welcome, and persons wishing to take on a particular task should notifiy Jim Musser.
 
 

B field/Track Fit - related
 

• Validate fitter results using comparisons of momentum vs range for stopping muons, obtaining resolution vs energy, position, angle, etc, and compare with MC.

• Reduce track fitter execution time.

• Perform detector alignment study at the module level using full pre-field on data set.

• Encorporate detector alignment data into detector geometry.

• Adapt fitter to use measured B field map.

• Develop alternative track fitters with reduced execution time.

Track/Shower Finder - Related
 

• Develop alternative or analysis-specific finders (ie track and shower finders optimized for a particular physics analysis, such as multiple muons, atmospheric neutrinos, etc)

• Study standard reconstruction track and shower finding efficiency through intercomparison of MC and real data. Optimize standard reconstruction software.

De-muxer -Related:
 

• Develop alternative or analysis-specific de-muxers.

• Optimize performance of the current demuxer.

• Profile current demuxer, and reduce execution time.

Calibration-Related:
 

• Commission drift point and non-linearity calibrations at the far detector.

• Automate the calibration constant maker tasks, improve the handling of pathological failures, and provide diagnostic plots for calibration maker performance.

• Obtain global far detector and caldet MIP calibration using stopping muons in a self consistent fashion, and validate the procedure with MC studies.

• Perform a MC study of energy deposition vs position in the far and caldet detectors by muons, determining any adjustments needed to strip-strip calibration to compensate for non-uniformities in energy deposition.

• Evaluate the shower reconstruction code using CalDet data, determining missing energy fraction and resolution for electron and hadron showers vs reconstruction code tunable parameters.

• Add near detector electronics-specific calibrations.

Framework - related
 

• Clean up Candidate handle classes, moving algorithmic code to the Alg classes.

• Define output ntuples.