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Raw DataNewly acquired raw data is stored on disk and copies copied to institutional storage in a timely fashion.  This is done by copying the data to a UVA based server and then preserving the data on a RAID disk array owned and maintained by the UVA Spin Physics group.

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The raw data are then decoded and stored into ROOT files at Fermilab and at the University of Virginia (UVA).  The decoding takes the information in the raw CODA data records and translates them into a more user-friendly format, for example, assigning specific wires wire numbers in tracking chambers to digitized drift time information or hodoscope numbers to hits. Further processing then occurs on these data to change the hits into reconstructed tracks and events that are also stored in ROOT files.  For ease of access and data security, these files will be mirrored off-site at the University of Virginia on a RAID system. 

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Log Books: SpinQuest uses an electronic logbook system SpinQuest ECL with a database back-end.

Calibration and Geometry databases: Running conditions, as well as the detector calibration constants and detector geometries, are stored in a database at Fermilab.

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