Monday, July 10, 2006
July 10
A new version of CMSSW is now available. I've migrated everything over to CMSSW_0_8_0_pre2, and I'm currently using Christos' farmout script to generate 10000 SSD signal events. The new script uses Nikitenko's allReco macro instead of the gene+simu+digi chain used previously. Now everything can be done at once: fully simulated events along with track and jet reconstruction and ECAL clustering.
The goal is to look at the kinematics of the signal events: superclusters, jets, tracks, etc.
Since SUSY is generally more complicated than SM physics, and because my search is inclusive, it's not realistic to specify all possible decay chains that could lead to same-sign dielectrons. Instead, I generate general squark/gluino events and use an analysis program to sift through them for SSD signals.
Due to space problems, however, I need to incorporate the analysis program into the PythiaSource files, so I can develop a filter to get rid of uninteresting events before they get written out.