The STAR experiment

 
0) update on FPS upgrade
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/2014-10-24_FPS4management.pptx

1) Collaboration Meeting

2) forward upgrade proposal
    logistics, HI physics cases

3)follow-up from last meeting: 
   trigger board chair, erratum (Upsilon) 
   APS site visit survey, 2010 MOU

4) management report at upcoming council meeting (15 minutes)
   a) management structure, editorial board and PWGC 
   b)paper/student productivity 
   c)data-taking and production 
   d)update on future plan (UIC upgrade workshop and homework)
   e) collaboration MOU/operation support
   f)new institutions (Stony brook -- full member; Taiwan CKU -- non-council seat)
   g) next collaboration meeting, pre-QM meeting

5) DOE FY15 performance Milestone
    Do we need to revise our priority? Or other actions?

 
0) Roman Pot II* status report (Wlodek)

1) council chair election/agenda 
    any suggestions 
    I will present the case on Stony Brook Application 
    Usually there is a spokesperson's report (should it be there?) 
    upcoming Analysis meeting in Spring (possibility Stony Brook?) 
    pre-QM meeting at the end of September (Japan, Taiwan?) 

2) Collaboration Operation Effort 
    there is a proposed procedure, how to execute it? 
    Action items from S&T review 
    Operation efficiency, HFT, computing  
   
3) run15 preparation and delay schedule 
    how does this impact shift sign-up? 

4)  Collaboration meeting misc. (tshirts, any request/emphasis on PWGC reports

5)  Haven’t got any feedback to APS on site visit survey;
          will work on this next week. 

6) author list, institution update, MOU
    (specific cases: Sonia Kabana, Sergei Voloshin, Richard Witt) 
    bigger issue is whether we should start an MOU process;
    related to item 2) on operation support

7) RHIC Brochure (see attached pdf)

  --- Agenda ---

1) Follow-up on last week's topics
    http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/3947.html
  a) Collaboration Meeting: PWG agendas (all), highlight speakers (JetCorr), PWGC meeting
  b) PWG paper strategy/proposals update -> topic of discussion at Collab. Meeting [TBC]
  c) Publication Policy reminder: post-presentation action
  d) PWGC disk allocation

  2) Proposal from HF/LFS PWG to include  the "Les Houches Accord" LHAPDF/LHAGlue tunes to STAR's PYTHIA8
     - supported by  Spin PWG
     - more info see e.g. hep-ph/0508110
     - S&C: no infrastructural issues foreseen in the inclusion in STAR's PYTHIA
     - LHAPDF comes in several tunes: PWGs are requested to discuss what tune(s) to be used.
        PWGs are then requested to carefully document this/those.

3) Proposal from the MTD group for special st_mtd dimuon production.
    - spefically targeted at J/psi physics.  
    - presented at last week's S&C Meeting
     direct link:  https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/20141008_MTD_SC.pdf
    - more details at special meeting (yesterday)
       http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/lfspectra/marr/Analysis/MTD_EventFiltering.pdf
    - Note that effectively only 5-6% of the ~2.6B events dimuon triggered events are selected.
      PWGs (esp. HF and LFS) are requested to see if this compatible with their priorities.

4) Deadlines & Upcoming Conferences/Workshops

   - Abstract submission closed; Presentation deadlines
     * SPIN 2014 (Beijing) - Oct.20-24, 2014 (PWG: Oct.6; starttalks: Oct.13)
     * APS Far West Section - Oct.24/25 (PWG: Oct.10; startalks: Oct.17)
     * Resonance Workshop (Catania)  - Nov. 3-7, 2014   (PWG: Oct.20; startalks: Oct.27)
     * CPOD 2014 - Nov. 17-21, 2014 (PWG: Nov.3 starttalks:Nov.10)
     * DAE-HEP Symposium (IIT Guwahati) - Dec.8-12, 2014 (PWG: Nov.24; startalks Dec.1)

   - Abstract submission closed; Call for speakers
     * IS-2014 (Nappa, CA -- Dec.3-7
      http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/startalks/3775.html

    - Abstract submission open; Call for speakers
      * ICPAQGP 2015 (Kolkata) -- Feb. 2-6   (abstracts PWG: Oct.10; startalks: Oct.17; conference: Oct.24)
       http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/startalks/3758.html
     * WWND 2015 (Keystone) --  Jan. 25-31(abstracts PWG: Nov.17; startalks: Nov.24; conference: Dec.1)
         https://indico.cern.ch/event/336180/

     - Announced conferences; Abstract submission TBA
    * CIPANP 2015 (Vail, CO) - May 19-25, 2015    http://cipanp2015.yale.edu
    * HP 2015 (Montreal) -- June 29 - July 3, 2015
    * SQM 2015 (Dubna) - July 6 -15, 2015   http://sqm.jinr.ru
    * DIS 2015 (Dallas) - April 27 - May 1, 2015 http://dis2015.org

5) AOB