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Can look. Can you make available the LCIO file output by the readout 
simulation?

On Tue, 13 May 2014, Chad Civello wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am wondering if anyone is familiar with a reconstruction error that I am
> running into. When attempting to run reconstruction with the
> HPS2014OfflineTruthRecon.lcsim steering file, the process quits with an
> error caused by finding a negative value of the variable "t". Upon further
> investigation, it seems that a negative "t" will cause an imaginary path
> length of the track, calculated in WTrack.java. The physics behind
> calculating t is beyond me, involving combinations of a momentum vector, a
> magnetic field unit vector, and a unit vector of a plane. I am able to step
> through 590 events before this error occurs, so it seems to be something
> with this individual event that is stopping reconstruction from continuing.
>
> The file being run through reconstruction is created from running an event
> file in SLIC with the HPS-Proposal2014-v5-6pt6 detector, and then passing
> this file through readout simulation with the HPS2014ReadoutNoPileup.lcsim.
> The output error is listed below.
>
> As a test on the steering file and drivers, I ran a smaller input file
> through the same reconstruction without an error. However, out of 165
> triggered events, I am only seeing 14 tracks. Is there a reason that so few
> tracks would be found? Thank you for the help.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chad Civello
> University of New Hampshire
>
>
>>> Event 585
>>> Event 586
>>> Event 587
>>> Event 588
>>> Event 589
>>> Event 590
> getPathLengthToPlaneApprox ERROR t is negative (-0.09475479432494227)!
> p 0.30696444517303073 rho -0.0014649536585467351 a -4.4968868700000003E-4
> A -3.2568853514089034E-4 B 0.8943517247214046 C -686.7142264081292
> track params: 0.2785713187164182, -0.12804764158077803,
> -0.01513249730159967, 0.30696444517303073, 16.49545255281126,
> 35.88633038244529, 0.656055763097405,
> xp [      702.45,      71.390,     -27.331]
> eta [     0.99953,    0.030515,      0.0000]
> h [      0.0000,      0.0000,     -1.0000]
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