Summary PAW NTUPLE for MACRO's data taking


Subject: Summary PAW NTUPLE for MACRO's data taking
From: Erik Katsavounidis (Erik.Katsavounidis@lngs.infn.it)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 17:50:25 EDT


MACRO Colleagues,

I have prepared a general purpose PAW NTUPLE that summarizes
MACRO's data taking from March 1994 (RUN 7295) to today, i.e.,
well over 6 years of MACRO's most recent running.

The NTUPLE has one entry per RUN and contains roughly 16KB
per RUN of summary variables (several thousands of them).
This includes all standard logbook (LGB) variables as well as a
number of RUN-based quantities that my general analysis yields:
full trigger/SPU statistics, detailed box-by-box counts
for all scintillator triggers (ERP muon/gc, TOHM, LIP, PHRASE,
SPAM, FMT, HIPT), livetimes of all triggers on a per SM basis,
maximum "quite" intervals for each one of them and many many more.

This NTUPLE:

o superseeds the LGB databases and makes available to users
  of MACRO's LGB a structure that is significantly enlarged
  and is available under all platforms (VMS/Unix/PC).
o is best suited for DETECTOR SYSTEMATICS studies, especially
  for flux-yielding analyses based on "average" detector Monte
  Carlo (neutrinos!).
o brings to your fingertips any high quality RUN selection
  that rare-event hunting analyses (monopoles/LIPs/astronomy)
  may want to entertain.

Please find all at:

o AXPGS0::DISK$SCRAUSA4:[MACRODATA.LGB.NTU] contains all NTUPLEs.
  I've intentionally split it in pieces of 1000 MACRO RUNs at a
  time (see below how to combine them). There are 17 files of
  rougly 16MB each.
o AXPGS0::DISK$SCRAUSA4:[MACRODATA.LGB.SRC] contains all my
  source code that produced these structures.
o AXPGS0::DISK$SCRAUSA4:[MACRODATA.LGB.KUMAC] contains sample kumacs
  for dealing with this NTUPLE. The NTCHAIN.KUMAC shows how to
  combine individual ntuples while MASTER.KUMAC shows an example
  of RUN selection.
o AXPGS0::DISK$SCRAUSA4:[MACRODATA.LGB.HELP] contains basic HELP
  pages for first time users. THis area is copied on the web also
  under http://wsgs02.lngs.infn.it:8000/macro/summaries/

I hope other people may find this NTUPLE as useful as I did in
this last stage of MACRO's analyses or for any more in the future.
If you need any help in making use of it, or you have comments,
suggestions, bugs to report or results to show using it, I'll be
happy to hear.

Best Regards,
--Erik K.



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