The BTV Software Tutorial Suite.pptVIP

CHEP03, March 27, 2003. Rob Kutschke (Fermilab) The BTeV Software Tutorial Suite Rob Kutschke, Fermilab Presented at CHEP03, San Diego March 27, 2003 What is BTeV? At the Tevatron p-pbar collider, at Fermilab: 1 arm forward spectrometer. Beauty and charm physics: Precision measurements. Exhaustive search for new physics. BTeV is a part of broad program to address fundamental questions in flavor physics. Analysis patterns will resemble B-factory, fixed target charm, and b-physics at CDF/D0. A Brief History of BTeV June 2000: Stage I approval from Fermilab. Fall 2001: funding situation deteriorated. May 2002: Stage I approval reaffirmed. Descoped detector (one arm ). Offline computing to be supplied via universities. October 2002: Passed internal FNAL review Addressed cost/schedule/technical risk. March 2003: P5 review this week. Fall/Winter 2003? Lehman baseline review. 2008? Start of physics running. Using Fermilab’s projected funding profile. Some Unique Aspects of BTeV Track and vertex reconstruction in L1 trigger. L2/L3 Trigger farm, O(2500) processors reused for offline reconstruction/simulation/analysis. ? 2/3 of cycles will be available. No traditional central computing center: Cycles/disk from the L2/L3 trigger farm. Resources supplied by universities. Tapeless! Highly distributed computing must be ingrained. Current State of Software Codes used during design and approval stage have accomplished their mission and will be phased out: Simulations based on Geant3 and MCFast. Many sophisticated reconstruction algorithms: Kalman filter; ECal reco code derived from X-Ball and CLEO. Mixture of C/Fortran/C++ Weaknesses: Many, many assumptions and idealizations hard coded. Requires fluency with many magic words and phrases. Documented by oral tradition at coffee time. Data and meta-data handling will not scale to large data samples. Moving To the Future Design and build modern infrastructure in which the next generation physics software will live. Learn from expe