Title

The BaBar Mini

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Duncan Brown, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Document Type

Article

Date

5-29-2003

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

BaBar has recently deployed a new event data format referred to as the Mini. The Mini uses efficient packing and aggressive noise suppression to represent the average reconstructed BaBar event in under 7 KBytes. The Mini packs detector information into simple transient data objects, which are then aggregated into roughly 10 composite persistent objects per event. The Mini currently uses Objectivity persistence, and it is being ported to use Root persistence. The Mini contains enough information to support detailed detector studies, while remaining small and fast enough to be used directly in physics analysis. Mini output is customizable, allowing users to both truncate unnecessary content or add content, depending on their needs. The Mini has now replaced three older formats as the primary output of BaBar event reconstruction. A reduced form of the Mini will soon replace the physics analysis format as well, giving BaBar a single, flexible event data format covering all its needs.

Additional Information

10 pages, 4 figures, LaTex, Proceedings for 'Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics', La Jolla, California, USA, March 24-28 2003More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0305085

Recommended Citation

Brown, Duncan, "The BaBar Mini" (2003). Physics - All Scholarship. 245.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/245

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org