See the detailed description of the mapping package in ALICE-INT-2003-025. Since that time the mapping has been extended for slat and trigger chamber segmentations an later on also to hold the description of the top level connections of detection elements, including information about DDLs, bus patches and also trigger configuration.

Mapping in OCDB

The mapping is everywhere in the MUON code loaded from OCDB. In case the mapping data files are changed, the mapping in OCDB has to be regenerated in this way:

For changes in mapping/data:

$> rm $ALICE_ROOT/OCDB/MUON/Calib/MappingData/Run0_999999999_v0_s0.root
$> cd $ALICE_ROOT/MUON
$> aliroot
root [0] AliMpCDB::WriteMpData();

For changes in mapping/data_run:

$> rm $ALICE_ROOT/OCDB/MUON/Calib/MappingRunData/Run0_999999999_v0_s0.root
$> cd $ALICE_ROOT/MUON
$> aliroot
root [0] AliMpCDB::WriteMpRunData();

Note that mapping has to be loaded from OCDB almost each time when using MUON classes; the loading of mapping depends on the CBD manager state (the current run number, storage ...). The standard way of loading mapping expects the CDB manager in a state well defined beforehand; this way is used in the MUON code:

if ( ! AliMpCDB::LoadDDLStore() ) {
  AliFatal("Could not access mapping from OCDB !");
}

In the same way, you can load AliMpManuStore, when manu serial numbers are needed:

if ( ! AliMpCDB::LoadManuStore() ) {
  AliFatal("Could not access run-dependent mapping from OCDB !");
}

In the interactive Root session, in case the CDB manager state is not defined, you can load mapping from the local OCDB files in this way:

root [0] AliMpCDB::LoadDDLStore2();
root [2] AliMpCDB::LoadManuStore2();

Graphical User Interface

To use the GUI to plot DE segmentation run:

 
AliMpCDB::LoadDDLStore2();
AliMpCDB::LoadManuStore2();
new AliMpDEVisu();

or

AliMpCDB::LoadDDLStore2();
AliMpCDB::LoadManuStore2();
new AliMpDEVisu(w, h);

if you want to change the size of the GUI window. Typical value are:

  w = 1200, h = 600 for PC
  w = 1000, h = 550 for laptop

The GUI allows:

drawing motif of a slat/quadrant
search of a given manu (motif) number
draw the channel number for a given manu number by clicking of the motif in canvas
write down in log message informations about the given detection element DE Id, DE name, number of buspatches, manus, manu serials
option to save log message onto disc

Test macros

A set of tests macros have been written during the development of the mapping classes. To run these macros:

   cd ../mapping/macro
   root
   root [0] .x testMacroName.C

Data files in mapping/data

The directory data in $ALICE_ROOT/MUON/mapping contains files with data which are not supposed to be changed in a long period.

zones.dat

Describes layout of zones, rows, row segments, subzones, motifs

  SECTOR_DATA
    number of zones  
    number of rows  
    direction of constant pad size (X or Y)
    offset in X direction
    offset in Y direction

  ZONE     
    number of zone  
    half legth of pad size in x  
    half legth of pad size in y

  SUBZONE  
    motif id  
    motif type_id

  ROW_SEGMENT  
    x offset (in number of pads) 
    y offset (in number of pads) 
    row number 
    nof motifs 
    first motif position Id
    step to the next motif position Id (+1 or -1)

zones_special.dat

Describes layout of special row segments (with irregular motifs)

  SECTOR_SPECIAL_DATA

  MOTIF
    zone id
    motif id  
    motif type_id

  ROW
    row number

  PAD_ROWS
    number of these pad rows in row

  PAD_ROW_SEGMENT
    mumber of pads in the rows segment  
    motif id  
    motif position id

  motifX.dat
  ----------
  Describes characteristics of the motif type X

  In lines:
    Berg number
    Kapton number
    Pad number
    Gassi number

motifSpecialX.dat

Describes characteristics of the special motif with motif Id X; the special motif caontains pads of different size

  In lines:
    pad index i (in x)
    pad index j (in y)
    half legth of pad size in x  
    half legth of pad size in y

padPosX.dat

Maps pad numbers used in the motifX.dat files to the local pad indices (i,j)

  In lines:
    Pad number
    pad index i (in x)
    pad index j (in y)

*.pcb files

Lines starting with # are comments.

  SIZES PadSizeX PadSizeY SizeX SizeY (cm)

  MOTIF motifType ix iy
  MOTIF motifType ix iy
  ...

where ix, iy are the local coordinates (in pad unit) of the lower-left corner of the motif (0,0 is the lower-left corner of the PCB).

PCB MUST be described in a rotating way, starting lower-left and then counter-clockwise, otherwise the manu-to-motif association (fixed in the slat definition files) will be wrong.

Note that for "full" PCBs, the SizeX and SizeY are redundant as they could be computed from the motif alone (but that serves as a cross-check that the motif pattern given is ok). That's not the case for short or rounded PCB though.

*.slat files

A slat is defined by the list of its PCB, described starting from the beam and going outward.

One PCB per line, preceded by the keyword PCB Other lines not matching this syntax are ignored. After the PCB is the list of manu ids for this PCB.

Example :

  PCB X 1-3;24-20;42;44;53
  PCB X 1-14
  PCB Y 100-90
  PCB Z 1;2;3;4;5;6;7;12;120

defines a slat with 4 PCBs : XXYZ

The manu to motif relationship is attached to the fact that we're counting counter-clockwise, starting on the lower-left of the PCB. (and the pcb files have to follow this convention to defined their motifs, otherwise all this won't work).

Note that the definition of the PCBs have to be in files with extension .pcb (X.pcb, Y.pcb, Z.pcb)

DetElemIdToBusPatch.dat

Lines starting with # are comments.

Contains the detection element identifier with the associated buspatch numbers and the corresponding DDL identifier. The link between buspatches and DE's is needed on the rawdata level to identify the type of quadrant/slat to get the corresponding mapping. The DDL id is needed for the rawdata generation only.

To generate this file, the macro MUONGenerateBusPatch.C could be used.

BusPatchSpecial.dat

Lines starting with # are comments.

Contains the list of bus patches which manu readout is not in the standard order. The format:

KEYWORD  DDLs  BusPatches [ManuIDs}
         where KEYWORD = REVERT or EXPLICIT

For the bus patches following the REVERT keyword, the manus are just reordered in a reverted order.
For the bus patches following the EXPLICIT keyword, the manus filled with a standard procedure (using the DetElemIdToBusPatch.dat file) are replaced with the list of manus in this file.

BusPatchLength.dat

Lines starting with # are comments.

Contains the list of bus patches and their cable length in meters

# DDL 0
  1  3
  2  3
...

crate.dat

Muon trigger electronics configuration file (decoded in class AliMUONTriggerCrateStore) directly copy/paste from the ALICE PRR ALICE-EN-2003-010. Gives local board number, name, crate name it belongs to, slot number, and internal switches (used in the algorithm).

ManuSerialToBin.dat

Lines starting with # are comments.

Contains the manu serial number with their associated bin number, injection and calibration gain.

To compare the bin number with the serial in the CDB database you can run the macro:

 
AliMpCDB::LoadDDLStore2();
.L $ALICE_ROOT/MUON/mapping/macros/MUONCheckManu.C+
MUONCheckManu(10, kFALSE);

The function has two parameters, the first is the number of the chamber (zero mean all chambers). The macro can create a set of histogramms with the different gain distributions stored into a root file (second parameter).

Two files a generated: one with the list of manu per detection element with their associated bin and gain value, the other with the bad, strange or unidentified serial number.

Data files in mapping/data_run

The directory data_run in $ALICE_ROOT/MUON/mapping contains files with data which are expected to change during experiment. At present time, there are only files with manu serial numbers:

deName_manu_dat.dat

Contains the list of manuIds and their serial numbers.

 
# Id bp/nbp serial
1 bp 4615
2 bp 4616
...

Units used

Lengths are in centimeters.

This chapter is defined in the READMEmapping.txt file.