January 2026 monthly summary for SBNSoftware/sbndcode: Focused on reliability, timing accuracy, and calibration-driven reconstruction to enhance data quality and analysis readiness. Major work includes a robust light propagation timing fix across optical detector types by adding a detector-type mapping and correct speed of light usage, and PMT calibration database integration that improves channel reconstruction while simplifying configuration by removing the skip-channel list. Complementary codebase refinements improved non-PMT channel handling, data structure choices, and naming conventions, contributing to maintainability and performance.

December 2025: SBND codebase improvements focusing on PMT calibration and efficiency modeling, flash geometry/configuration, and barycenter reconstruction. These changes enhance data accuracy, light propagation modeling, and reconstruction reliability, directly improving physics sensitivity and calibration workflow efficiency.

November 2025 saw a focused push on calibration realism, reconstruction robustness, and workflow hygiene for SBNDCode. The team delivered several high-impact features and stability improvements that directly enhance data/MC fidelity, reproducibility, and maintainability of the SBND reconstruction chain.

September 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering data-model improvements, refactoring, and CAF integration across sbnobj and sbncode to enhance analytical capabilities, maintainability, and data integrity.

2025-08 Monthly Summary - SBNSoftware/sbnobj (OpFlash timing). This month focused on delivering a robust core timing data model and cross-object associations to enable precise OpFlash timing analyses, along with build-system enhancements to support cross-object relationships. Major deliverables: - Implemented CorrectedOpFlashTiming to store corrected timing information for OpFlashes. - Added associations between OpFlash and Slice within the OpFlashTiming module to enable cross-object timing analysis. - Updated build to include AnalysisBase and necessary headers, enabling robust cross-object timing workflows. Impact and value: - Establishes a foundation for more accurate timing analyses across OpFlash objects, improving data quality for downstream physics analyses. - Improves data integrity and traceability of timing information. Major bugs fixed: None reported this month. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - C++ class design and module architecture for timing data structures - Cross-object data relationships (OpFlash-Slice) and timing analysis workflows - Build-system integration to incorporate AnalysisBase and required headers

July 2025 monthly summary for SBNSoftware/sbndcode focused on delivering critical enhancements to reconstruction and simulation faithfulness, robust configuration capabilities, and code maintainability. The work improved reconstruction fidelity through Barycenter Matching (BFM) enhancements with charge/light PCA, fixed a key geometry calculation bug, and added configurable PMT variations to SBND simulations, while also streamlining data fetching and association paths for smoother operation and future scalability.

June 2025 (SBNSoftware/sbndcode): Delivered end-to-end enhancements to support separate processing for SCE and non-SCE data, tightening data integrity and enabling targeted analyses. Implemented robust fixes across configuration, labeling, 3D matching, and drift estimation to reduce processing errors and misrouting, while improving error signaling for invalid calibrations. Overall impact: Improved accuracy of SCE data processing, reduced downstream risk due to misconfigurations, and strengthened capabilities for calibration-aware analyses. Demonstrated strong collaboration between workflow configuration, labeling standards, and error handling, positioning the codebase for more reliable data products. Technologies/skills demonstrated: workflow configuration and management, data processing pipelines, Pandora labeling handling, 3D matching logic, calibration/error handling, and configuration hygiene.

May 2025: Delivered a feature in SBNSoftware/sbndcode to configure independent Y and Z thresholds for flash geometry calculations, enabling granular control over which channels participate in Y and Z center computations. This can improve flash localization accuracy and tunability across detector conditions. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: enhanced configurability and potential improvements in localization accuracy with low risk to existing behavior. Technologies/skills demonstrated: configuration management, safe code integration, and traceable change via commit.

April 2025: Delivered SBND-specific data handling enhancements and code health improvements in SBNSoftware/sbncode. Key accomplishments include implementing SBND OpFlash population in CAFMaker with detector-specific parameters for OpFlash and OpHits and cleaning CAFMaker outputs by removing debug prints. These changes improve data fidelity for SBND reconstruction, reduce log noise, and establish a maintainable foundation for SBND-focused features. Technologies demonstrated include C++, SBND data modeling, and meticulous code cleanup with strong Git traceability.

March 2025 for SBNSoftware/sbndcode focused on enabling robust calibration workflows, data-driven analysis, and code quality improvements that increase reliability and business value. Key outcomes include integrating PMT calibration into the calibration database with new services and folder structure; advancing FCL-driven data runs and data-driven flash matching; enabling data-based drift estimation and improved parameter validation to reduce misconfigurations; and delivering foundational improvements such as per-TPC PMT detection efficiency tuning, initialization fixes, and comprehensive code cleanup. The work reduces calibration time, improves data quality monitoring, and strengthens the system’s scalability for future analyses.

February 2025 monthly summary: Delivered key improvements to hit finding and deconvolution within SBNSoftware/sbndcode. Implemented channel-specific ADC thresholds for OpHitFinder, aligned per-channel threshold application with configuration, and fixed calibration data references and data-file naming for OpDetDeconvolution. These changes enhance hit detection accuracy, stabilize the deconvolution workflow, and improve reproducibility of reconstruction results across the SBND codebase.

January 2025 monthly summary for SBNDCode: Delivered PMT timing calibration service integration by adapting the Calibration Service from ICARUS to SBND, adding new C++ sources, interfaces and providers for PMT timing corrections, and updating the build to include the database interface module. This enables handling PMT timing calibration data as a dedicated service, paving the way for improved timing accuracy and calibration workflows in SBND. Repository: SBNSoftware/sbndcode.

December 2024: Targeted bug fix in SBNSoftware/sbndcode addressing a configuration include and deconvolution algorithm issue. The change fixes a misconfigured include statement and a syntax error in a C++ tool, and strengthens error handling within the deconvolution workflow. This improves stability, reliability, and correctness of the data processing pipeline in SBND, reducing downstream failures and maintenance overhead.

November 2024 monthly summary for SBNSoftware/sbndcode focusing on feature delivery and bug fixes in the OpDeconvolution and PMT reconstruction components. Delivered: OpDeconvolution Frequency Cutoff Option to enable user-specified deconvolution cutoff; PMT reconstruction integrated into the standard data reconstruction workflow; OpDeconvolution configuration enhancements (new data file path and masked channels list); OpDetReco channel masking and NSigmaThreshold tuning; Code cleanup and non-functional change reverts to stabilize the baseline. Impact: improved data quality, processing efficiency, and maintainability; business value: more reliable reconstruction, easier parameter tuning, reduced manual steps, and fewer regressions. Technologies: C++, configuration-driven workflows, deconvolution algorithms, PMT hit finding.

Concise monthly summary for 2024-10 focusing on key deliverables, major fixes, impact, and technology skills demonstrated for the SBNSoftware/sbndcode repository. Emphasis on business value and technical achievements with concrete delivered items and commit context.