
Bhagyarathi Sahoo contributed to the AliceO2Group/O2Physics repository by developing and optimizing data analysis workflows for dimuon polarization and MC truth studies in high energy physics. Over six months, she implemented new histogram infrastructures and polarization variables using C++ and ROOT, enabling rapidity- and production-plane-based analyses. Her work included refactoring histogram definitions for higher resolution, optimizing memory usage by removing redundancies, and stabilizing data pipelines through targeted bug fixes. By focusing on performance optimization, memory management, and data integrity, Bhagyarathi delivered robust, maintainable code that improved analysis fidelity and efficiency for large-scale physics simulations and collaborative research.
Monthly summary for 2025-10 focused on business value and technical achievements for the O2Physics repository. The month centered on stabilizing the PWGDQ data pipeline by fixing a minitree data integrity issue that impacted efficiency measurements, with a targeted code change and clear commit history to support reproducibility.
Monthly summary for 2025-10 focused on business value and technical achievements for the O2Physics repository. The month centered on stabilizing the PWGDQ data pipeline by fixing a minitree data integrity issue that impacted efficiency measurements, with a targeted code change and clear commit history to support reproducibility.
September 2025 – AliceO2Group/O2Physics: Focused work on stabilizing MC truth generation by correcting McDecision flag handling for two-prong signals. No new features released this month; major effort centered on a targeted bug fix that improves MC truth pair accuracy. Commit 67d38bc66a31036a2a473370a87a9d15c525f76b: [PWGDQ] Fixing McDecision issue for two prong signal (#13142).
September 2025 – AliceO2Group/O2Physics: Focused work on stabilizing MC truth generation by correcting McDecision flag handling for two-prong signals. No new features released this month; major effort centered on a targeted bug fix that improves MC truth pair accuracy. Commit 67d38bc66a31036a2a473370a87a9d15c525f76b: [PWGDQ] Fixing McDecision issue for two prong signal (#13142).
June 2025 monthly summary focusing on memory-usage optimization in O2Physics dimuon-polarization histograms; implemented targeted refactor to remove redundant Rapidity histograms and rely on Pt plots, reducing memory consumption. Changes localized to PWGDQ/Core/HistogramsLibrary.cxx. Commit: 3363702d9808751ebb8397359b3991504390f48b (PR #11730). Result: lower resource usage, enabling larger datasets and faster per-run performance. Skills demonstrated: C++, performance optimization, histogram library design, code locality and maintainability.
June 2025 monthly summary focusing on memory-usage optimization in O2Physics dimuon-polarization histograms; implemented targeted refactor to remove redundant Rapidity histograms and rely on Pt plots, reducing memory consumption. Changes localized to PWGDQ/Core/HistogramsLibrary.cxx. Commit: 3363702d9808751ebb8397359b3991504390f48b (PR #11730). Result: lower resource usage, enabling larger datasets and faster per-run performance. Skills demonstrated: C++, performance optimization, histogram library design, code locality and maintainability.
May 2025 – AliceO2Group/O2Physics: Delivered two major feature enhancements to MC truth analysis and dimuon polarization workflows, with refactoring of histogram definitions and expanded processing for 2-prong muon decay signals. Implemented higher-resolution histogram binning to enable more precise momentum distribution studies. No separate critical bug fixes required this month; improvements focused on analysis fidelity and stability. Result: stronger physics interpretation, faster analysis cycles, and reinforced collaboration with the PWGDQ team. Core technologies demonstrated include ROOT histogram analysis, C++/data-processing pipelines, and rigorous version-controlled development.
May 2025 – AliceO2Group/O2Physics: Delivered two major feature enhancements to MC truth analysis and dimuon polarization workflows, with refactoring of histogram definitions and expanded processing for 2-prong muon decay signals. Implemented higher-resolution histogram binning to enable more precise momentum distribution studies. No separate critical bug fixes required this month; improvements focused on analysis fidelity and stability. Result: stronger physics interpretation, faster analysis cycles, and reinforced collaboration with the PWGDQ team. Core technologies demonstrated include ROOT histogram analysis, C++/data-processing pipelines, and rigorous version-controlled development.
April 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments and impact for AliceO2Group/O2Physics. This month delivered the polarization analysis capability in the production plane, enabling polarization-dependent studies in pp collisions. Key evolution includes new histograms and variables added to VarManager, and integration into HistogramsLibrary to support end-to-end analysis.
April 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments and impact for AliceO2Group/O2Physics. This month delivered the polarization analysis capability in the production plane, enabling polarization-dependent studies in pp collisions. Key evolution includes new histograms and variables added to VarManager, and integration into HistogramsLibrary to support end-to-end analysis.
Monthly summary for 2024-10 (AliceO2Group/O2Physics) highlighting the feature delivery to enable rapidity-based dimuon polarization analysis in HE and CS regions, with no major bugs fixed reported this month. The primary work focused on updating the histograms infrastructure to treat rapidity as a polarization variable, enabling physics studies as a function of rapidity.
Monthly summary for 2024-10 (AliceO2Group/O2Physics) highlighting the feature delivery to enable rapidity-based dimuon polarization analysis in HE and CS regions, with no major bugs fixed reported this month. The primary work focused on updating the histograms infrastructure to treat rapidity as a polarization variable, enabling physics studies as a function of rapidity.

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