Prompt reconstruction of ATLAS data in 2010 and 2011

Susumu Oda

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Abstract

Excluding a short duration in 2008, the LHC started regular operation in November 2009 and has since then provided billions of collision events that were recorded by the ATLAS experiment and promptly reconstructed at an on-site computing farm. The prompt reconstruction chain takes place in two steps and is designed to provide high-quality data for physics publications with as little delay as possible. The first reconstruction step is used for data quality assessment and determining calibration constants and beam spot position, so that this information can be used in the second reconstruction step to optimize the reconstruction performance. After the technical stop of the LHC at the end of 2010, the prompt reconstruction chain had to deal with greatly increased luminosity and pileup conditions. To allow the computing resources to cope with this increased dataflow, without developing a backlog, recently significant improvements have been made in the ATLAS reconstruction software to reduce CPU time and file sizes for the produced datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2011
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1116-1118
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9781467301183
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2011 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: Oct 23 2011Oct 29 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
ISSN (Print)1095-7863

Other

Other2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period10/23/1110/29/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Radiation
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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