GoodRunsList in AMA

Introduction

(still to be validated)

This page explains how to use the GoodRunsLists within AMAAthena. GoodRunsLists make it possible to select specific datasets AND lumiblocks satisfying detector and data quality constraints. A more general Atlas tutorial can be found here: GRL Tutorial.

Prepare

There are a few steps to make, in order to get it all working.

1: Get an XML file

First of all, you need an XML file with the datasets and lumiblocks you want to run over. To make one yourself, go to Atlas Run Query and enter a query containing all DQ flags you need/like. This page has lots of examples and help functions to assist in forming a query.

Press Show Runs, wait for it... and inspect the results. On the bottom of the page you can choose to view in 'pretty mode', 'python dictionary', 'Root tree', but we need to dump it as an XML file. Choose this one. Now you have your XML file, check if it looks ok. (Obviously, it is also possible to take the XML file supplied by your group, Atlas or anyone else you assume knows it all.)

2: Edit the AMAAthena jo

The idea is now, to let AMAAthena only run over events that are in the selected lumiblocks and datasets, and skip the rest. This is especially nice when you are running over millions of events. Make sure you have an updated version of AMA (at least AMAAthena-00-01-59), by doing for example 'svn update'. Compile if necessary, but check explicitly that in AMAAthena/share there is a file called AMAAthena_jobOptions_new_GRL.py.

Open this file and modify these two lines, such that they reflect your xml file: 1. GoodRunsListSelectorTool.GoodRunsListVec = [ 'GRList_dec09_stablebeams_CaloGreen.xml' ] 2. seq.GRLTriggerAlg1.GoodRunsListArray = ['GRList_dec09_stablebeams_CaloGreen'] (note that this MUST be equal to the xml file without the extension.

Run locally...

Make sure you have sample definition that points to a data file (or copy this one as an example)

TITLE: data
/data/atlas3/users/imussche/data09_900GeV.00142383.physics_MinBias.merge.AOD.f196_m325/data09_900GeV.00142383.physics_MinBias.merge.AOD.f196_m325._lb0086-lb0095.1

(And a config file that works, but surely you can find one yourself :).

Then do for example:

 AMAAthenaDriver data 100 ConfigFile=data.conf TRIG,DATA,GRL

Note 1: GRL calls the joboptions you just edited.

If you dump an ntuple, and for example make this histogram:

 root> tree->Draw("lumiBlock")

you see that really only the lumiblocks you wanted are in.

... or use Ganga and go all the way

This is much nicer of course, since you don't want to download all the datasets in reality, but let ganga do the work. This I still need to test.