STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-04-26 12:00
2013-04-26 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 26 April 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) HFT installation: Flemming
               3) Assesment of eSTAR physics program: Nu
               4) AOB

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Ernst, Carl, Scott, Zhangbu, Nu, Huan, Jamie, Flemming, Gene, Bill

              2) HFT status, Flemming: HFT arrives on Friday, the whole LBL team will arrive on Sunday. HFT willbe ready by May 8th,
                  according to the installation plan.

              3) Run13: target for polarimetry needs to be replaced. Wait for the next access.
                  - Bill: C-AD is perform much better now. MTD trigger is not ready. Triiger group's problem?!

              4) - eSTAR physics program assessment: BNL has been asked by DoE for the document of the assessments of eSTAR physics
                     program. It is needed by Oct. 2013.
                  - Jamie: In eRHIC document, physics measurements have been documented. Now we need to know how much of it can be
                    done by eSTAR/ePHENIX. 
                  - Zhangbu: time scales for STAR forward upgrade // sPHENIX // eSTAR/ePHENIX // full eRHIC ?
                  - Carl: three stages (i) 5GeV, low lum. / (ii) 5GeV high lum. / (iii) increased e energy to full eRHIC

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

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 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-04-19 12:00
2013-04-19 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 19 April 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) HFT installation: Flemming
               3) Discussion wit B. Mueller: Nu
               4) Future workshop speakers: Nu
               5) AOB

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance:

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-04-12 12:00
2013-04-12 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 12 April 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) BES-II discussion: Nu
               3) STAR talk on jet analysis: All
               4) Summary paper: Bedanga
               5) Members of STAR Talk Committee: Nu
               6) Future workshop speakers: Nu

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Dan, Huan, Jamie, Nu, Scott, Xin, Bedanga, Gene, Bill, Flemming
              2) Run13 status: MTD waiting for firmware; FMS is working;  need more stable beam with high polarization in both beams;
              3) BES-II and e-cooling: STAR request focus on the current proposal: make the cooling work for the range of 7.7 < root(s) < 20GeV
              4) Full-jet talk at the jet-collaboration meeting:
              5) Summary paper: more discussion next week
              6) Future HI Physics Workshop Speakers: ask STC
              7) sQM plenary speakers: highlight talk + future talk





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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                 ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-04-05 12:00
2013-04-05 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 5 April 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) Aanlysis meeting and SQM preparations: Xin
               3) News release of Dleta_g in proton spin(?): Nu
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Huan, Xin, Bill, Jamie, Gene, Nu, Scott; Jerome
              2) Bill: (a) Collider: going back to last year's setting, should getting better from now; (b) setting up trigger for MTD, FMS
             3) Xin: (a) Analysis Meeing: June 16-19, SPC has formed, website has created, ; SQM: April 14 abstract deadline: 9 abstracts, 2 new
                 results include Cascade and UU v2.
             4) Inclusive jets results (2009): Scott: star data has higher impact, theory+star publish in PRL + phenix to pld, all data together is only
                 <=1.5 sigma. STAR consensus: after submission of STAR paper, seminars but not news release, need more longitudinal pp200GeV
                 data, run14? Impact of pp500GeV at low pt, less.

       *--===================================================================--*

 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-29 12:00
2013-03-29 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 29 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-22 12:00
2013-03-22 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) Run14 BUR committee and Talk Committee: Nu
               3) 15GeV Au+Au run:
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance:

       *--===================================================================--*

 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR
Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-15 12:00
2013-03-15 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-08 11:00
2013-03-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 March 2013
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status
               2) Run14 BUR committee: Nu
               3) STAR Talk Committee:
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Huan, Bedanga, Bill, Jerome, Gene, Jamie, Scott, Nu, Flemming
              2) Run status - Bill: trigger problem, trigger experts are working on the problem. / FMS has not started yet. Need timing up. / FGT: in progress,
                  HV scans, gain scan / CAD will declare Physics within 12 hrs. / polarization: 35 yellow:50 blue / need di-jet trigger / L2 monitor needs effort
              3) BUR14 discussion: 22-cryo-week / committee member: Nu (chair), Xin, Jamie, Flemming, Elke*, Pibero*, Wei* (* tbd)
              4) STAR Talk Committee: need new members 3-5, especially the chair / arxiv list of talks / upload talks before approval!

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.       
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-01 11:00
2013-03-01 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 1 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-22 11:00
2013-02-22 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 ET
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) WAH
               2) HFT Review: Flemming
               3) Trainor issue: Nu
               4) TBD

       *--===================================================================--*

             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Huan, Xin, Bedanga, Nu
              2) RUN13:  STAR is ready: in good shape. Cosmic ray data : one day good data set.
              3) HFT review (May 17, BNL): DOE demands now early completion. Successful review although the schedule is constrained.
                   IST: cooling system test / SSD: time is short, problematic, new engineer from lbl on board / Integration: research load 
                   resources, necessary(?) / costs: is fine. Contigency remains.
              4) TT issue: BNL lawyer contacted. Wait for action from the council and the management. Monitor the progress closely from BNL.
                  Wait for the Council to decision in few days.

       *--===================================================================--*

 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 24 - March 1, 2013.
                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-15 11:00
2013-02-15 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-08 11:00
2013-02-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-15 11:00
2013-02-15 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-08 11:00
2013-02-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 February 2013
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 ET
 

        *--===================================================================--*

I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) WAH
               2) Collaboration meeting: Jamie and Xin
               3) Resource Discussions for HFT, iTPC, and Forward Upgrade: Flemming, Zhangbu, Huang
               4) TBD

       *--===================================================================--*

             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance:

       *--===================================================================--*

 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu Xu

  ► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

*--===================================================================--*

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 24 - March 1, 2013.
                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.       

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Repeat of Cut Review

This is basically a repeat of the most salient parts of the Feb. 1st "Review of Cuts" blog, given the fitting updates of the Feb. 5 "Another Updated Fit" blog.  These results were discussed in the PWG phone meeting today (Feb 7th, 2013), and this blog is the promised further details.  The conclusions of the discussions are that
  • The cross section is not very sensitive to these cuts
  • While the mass plots look nices, it appears the MC fits work comparably well for any cut choice
  • The high cost of cutting statistics is not sufficiencly offset by reductions in systematics, and thus no cuts will be changed.

PXL insertion and the PXL Bulkhead

Speaker : Howard Wieman


Talk time : 14:00, Duration : 00:20

AOB

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 12:55, Duration : 00:05
  • data03 cleanup will happen today - space will be reduced to a to a 4 months retention time ; please clean up anything you do not need ASAP

Geometry readiness for Run 13

Speaker : Jason Webb ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:35, Duration : 00:20

Y2013 tag is defined, with all of the new detectors and modifications to existing detectors:

  • Pixel detector for the HFT has been added (PixlGeo5.xml)

p+p 200 GeV dE/dx status

Speaker : Mike Skoby ( CEEM )


Talk time : 12:15, Duration : 00:20

Default PPV vs Modified PPV performance in 2012 pp500 Jet embedding

Speaker : Zilong Chang ( TAMU )


Talk time : 12:00, Duration : 00:15

The new PPV tune for p+p 500 GeV has been checked with an embedding study.
The page is here.