Information for Fast Offline QA Shifts - Run 8

Welcome to the STAR Fast Offline Quality Assurance and Offline DST Production QA Shift home page. As STAR continues to mature and utilize new hardware and software it remains imperative that we work to insure the quality of STAR data so that our collaboration may continue to produce many new physics results in the efficient and timely manner we have enjoyed so far. In Run 9 the TPC, SSD, EMC-barrel, EMC-SMD-eta grid, EMC-SMD-phi grid, EMC End Cap, End Cap SMD, FTPC-East, FTPC-West, TOF-MRPC-tray, BBC, FPD and PMD will be active. The SVT has been removed for Run 8. Our job is to monitor the validity of the data, calibrations and event reconstruction from the full experiment for the Fast Offline event reconstruction. From a practical standpoint it is only possible for Offline QA to detect fairly large problems and to monitor only a few percent of the total Fast Offline productions. But even this level of QA is beneficial. In the following I will attempt to answer the most common questions about the shift work. Following this is a link to the relevent pages which you will need to become familiar with prior to your first week on shift in Run 8.

Welcome aboard!

Lanny Ray, The University of Texas at Austin
November 19, 2007

STAR QA Documentation

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