LArTPC Data Overlay Workshop, March 4, 2019 at Fermilab

Monday 4 Mar 2019, 09:00 → 17:00 US/Central

Black Hole (am), Hornets Nest (pm) (Fermilab)

Please join us for a day-long workshop to discuss the latest techniques, workflows, solutions and other related issues for overlaying simulated signals on data collected from LArTPCs and other associated sub-detectors found in LArTPC-based experiments.

9-12 - DIR/ Black Hole-WH2NW - Wilson Hall 2nd fl North West

12 - 5 - PPD/ Hornets Nest-WH8X- Wilson Hall 8th fl Crossover

Zoom meeting ID:  731-540-190
https://fnal.zoom.us/j/731540109

Please see a more detailed description of each of the proposed topics: https://indico.fnal.gov/event/19498/contribution/1/material/slides/0.pdf

For questions, or suggestions and requests for agenda items, please contact: adi@fnal.gov; apapadop@mit.edu; wketchum@fnal.gov; erica@fnal.gov

09:00 → 10:30 Introduction

Introducing the overlay method and interested parties

09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Dr Erica Snider (Fermilab)

Slides intro-LArTPC-overlay-workshop-2019-03-04.pdf

09:10 Overlay Overview

Speaker: Ms Afroditi Papadopoulou (Graduate Student MIT)

09:30 Experiments presentations - ProtoDUNE, DUNE near & far detectors

Speaker: Dr Thomas Junk (Fermilab)

Slides dune_larsoft_overlay_workshop_trj.pdf

10:00 Experiment presentation - SBN + discussion

Speaker: Filippo Varanini (INFN Padova)

Slides Overlay.pptx

10:30 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 12:00 Learning from past experience

10:45 NOvA's experience

Speaker: Dr Alexander Himmel (Fermilab)

Slides 2019-03-02-nova-overlay.pdf

11:15 Informal discussion of CMS experience: pre-mixing MC on MC

Speaker: Kevin Pedro (Fermilab)

Slides Liz-Hildreth_CMS_PileupV2.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Break

13:00 → 14:30 Overlaying

13:00 'Adding simulated and data signals' + Discussion

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi

Slides 190304_overlay_adding.pdf

13:30 ‘Calibrating’ simulation to match data

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi

Slides 190304_overlay_calibrating.pdf

14:00 ‘Timing in’ simulation and data + Discussion

Speaker: Dr Wesley Ketchum (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides LArSoft_Overlay_TimingInSimulation.pdf

14:30 → 14:45 Break

14:45 → 16:00 Overlaying

14:45 ‘Producing’ overlay samples + Discussion

Speaker: Adi Ashkenazi

Slides LArSoft_Overlay_Production.pdf

15:05 Summary