Kalanand's December 2009 Log

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December 1st

First data analysis

Recipe for analysis of the first CMS data from 2009 run:

# configure HLT
process.load('L1TriggerConfig.L1GtConfigProducers.L1GtTriggerMaskTechTrigConfig_cff')
process.load('HLTrigger/HLTfilters/hltLevel1GTSeed_cfi')
process.hltLevel1GTSeed.L1TechTriggerSeeding = cms.bool(True)
process.hltLevel1GTSeed.L1SeedsLogicalExpression = cms.string('0 AND
((40 OR 41) AND NOT (36 OR 37 OR 38 OR 39))')

# require physics declared
process.physDecl = cms.EDFilter("PhysDecl",
    applyfilter = cms.untracked.bool(True)
)

# require scraping filter
process.scrapingVeto = cms.EDFilter("FilterOutScraping",
                                    applyfilter = cms.untracked.bool(True),
                                    debugOn = cms.untracked.bool(False),
                                    numtrack = cms.untracked.uint32(10),
                                    thresh = cms.untracked.double(0.2)
                                    )

# require primary vertex
process.primaryVertexFilter = cms.EDFilter("GoodVertexFilter",
    vertexCollection = cms.InputTag('offlinePrimaryVertices'),
    minimumNumberOfTracks = cms.uint32(1) ,
    maxAbsZ = cms.double(20), 
    maxd0 = cms.double(8) 
)

process.myPath = cms.Path(process.hltLevel1GTSeed * process.physDecl * 
                          process.scrapingVeto * process.primaryVertexFilter)

December 16th

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Last modified: Wed Dec 16 9:58:17 CST 2009