STAR Management Meeting

2011-04-28 09:00
2011-04-28 10:00
America/New York
Thursday, 28 April 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, at 13:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

                                                           EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

                                                  Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 82633 // Password: 0952

                                                                                                       Time:  9 - 10 AM EST

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I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - Bill / All

             2) Run 11: 19.6 GeV, 27 GeV or 5 GeV - All

             3) Nattrass' case - All

             4) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

              0) Attendency:

              1)    
            

III. Note:

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:

APS Spring Meeting, Anaheim, April 30 - May 3, 2011.

STAR Collaboration Meeting, Prague, May 15 - 20, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011.

► RHIC PAC meeting, June 6 - 8, 2011, BNL.

► AGS&RHIC Users meeting, June 20 - 24, 2011, BNL.

► RHIC S&T Review, June 27 - 30, 2011, BNL.

PANIC2011, MIT, July 24 - 29, 2011.

STAR Management Meeting

2011-05-05 09:00
2011-05-05 10:00
America/New York
Thursday, 5 May 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, at 13:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

                                                             EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

                                                  Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 82633 // Password: 0952

                                                                                                       Time:  9 - 10 AM EST

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

I. Agenda:

             1) Run11 Status - Bill / All

             2) Run 11: 19.6 GeV, 27 GeV or 5 GeV - All

             3) QM2011 Talks - Bedanga

             4) Update on MTD and HFT projects - Flemming

             5) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

              0) Attendency: Nu, Flemming, Jamie, Bill, Bedanga, Olga, Gene, Helen

              1) Run11 status:  few days of 5 GeV test for a day or two: try at RHIC AND U+U injection test. No date has been fixed.

              2) 27GeV run may not be possible in Run11.

              3) QM2011: submitted 28 parallel talks, 13 talks offered from the organizers. Lots of merging talks.

                  Spectra:  3 // HF:  3 // JetCorr:  2 // Bulkcorr: 4 // Decadal Plan: 1

                  Deadline:  We request June 30th as the new deadline

                  Request draft proceedings from the collaboration

              4) MTD arrpoved by DOE. Add additional $50k contingency // HFT: July 13-14 CD2/3 review. June 10th dry-run.

III. Note:

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, Prague, May 15 - 20, 2011. Chair: Jaroslav Bielcik.

QM2011, Annecy, May 23 - 28, 2011.

► RHIC PAC meeting, June 6 - 8, 2011, BNL.

► AGS&RHIC Users meeting, June 20 - 24, 2011, BNL.

► RHIC S&T Review, June 27 - 30, 2011, BNL.

PANIC2011, MIT, July 24 - 29, 2011.

Pixel and Integration Structures

Speaker : Anderssen


Talk time : 06:00, Duration : 00:20

BeamLine for pp500 from HLT

The HLT group recorded BeamLine data during Run 11 pp500, which showed clear luminosity dependence.

New SUMS requirements

 

A quick list of requested/mentionned features

How important is it for your job to check for disk space before dispatching them to the queue?

Very important, I would lose lots of CPU otherwise
0% (0 votes)
Important, I use it when I have lots of jobs to submit
25% (2 votes)
Somewhat important, I would perhaps use it but have not have the need so far
50% (4 votes)
No opinion
13% (1 vote)
Not important, I never use this and my jobs run fine
13% (1 vote)
Total votes: 8

TMVA : test

 first test to use TMVA.

  • from the README 

 

Small Simulation: Data / MC Presentation

Comparison of 2006 and 2009 Tower Gains, and Effect of MIP Cuts on 2009 Analysis

The table shows the different MIP cuts for the different data passes I've analyzed:

Conference dinner

QM rehearsals all day

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00STAR BUR Run 12/13 ( 01:00 ) 1 fileNu Xu (LBNL)
10:00STAR Science for the Coming Decade ( 00:30 ) 1 fileC. A. Gagliardi (Texas A&M Univ.)
10:30
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
11:00New results from Spin PWG ( 01:00 ) 1 fileCarl Gagliardi part deux! (Texas A&M Univ.)
12:00STAR as a fixed target experiment ( 00:30 ) 2 filesDaniel Cebra (UC Davis)
12:30
Lunch break ( 01:30 )
 
14:00Report from the STAR Council ( 00:15 ) 1 fileGary Westfall (MSU)
14:15Poisson and Mixed Events Analysis for NA49 Fluctuations Measurements ( 00:15 ) 1 fileGary Westfall (MSU)
14:30Repeat Rehearsal Talk - Highlights from STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 file (MSU)
15:00BES talk ( 00:30 ) 2 filesBedanga Mohanty (VECC)
15:30Repeat Rehearsal Talk - di-electron measurements ( 00:30 ) 2 files (VECC)
16:00
Coffee Break ( 00:15 )
 
16:15Repeat Rehearsal Talk - LPV ( 00:30 ) 1 file (VECC)
16:45Repeat Rehearsal Talk - vn ( 00:30 ) 0 files (VECC)

QM rehearsals all day

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus ( 00:30 ) 2 filesLiang Xue (BNL)
09:30PID BES spectra ( 00:30 ) 2 filesLokesh Kumar (KSU)
10:00Dielectron measurements in STAR ( 00:30 ) 0 filesJie Zhao (LBNL)
10:30
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
11:00Energy dependence of the freeze out eccentricity from azimuthal dependence of HBT at STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileChristopher Anson (OSU)
11:30BES v1 and v2 from STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAlexander Schmah (LBNL)
12:00Fluctuations results from STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileTerence Tarnowsky (MSU)
12:30
Lunch break ( 01:30 )
 
14:00STAR Opening Plenary Talk ( 01:00 ) 1 fileHiroshi Masui (LBNL)
15:00STAR vn measurements ( 00:45 ) 3 filesPaul Sorensen (BNL)
15:45
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 
16:15STAR results on reconstructed jets and jet-like correlations ( 01:00 ) 1 fileHelen Caines (Yale Univ.)
17:15Results from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program ( 01:00 ) 2 filesBedanga Mohanty (VECC)

Council meeting

QM talks 2

TimeTalkPresenter
16:30Open charm hadron measurement in $sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions ( 00:30 ) 2 filesYifei Zhang (LBNL)
17:00NPE-hadron correlation in STAR ( 00:30 ) 2 filesWenqin Xu (UCLA)
17:30J/Psi production in STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileZebo Tang (USTC)

QM talks 1

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Search for Local Strong Parity Violation in STAR Using Multiple Observables ( 00:30 ) 1 fileDhevan Raja Gangadharan (OSU)
14:30Leading Hadron PID Effects in Di-hadron angular correlations in STAR ( 00:30 ) 4 filesKolja Kauder (UIC)
15:00Jet-Hadron Correlations in STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAlice Ohlson (Yale Univ.)
15:30
Coffee break ( 00:30 )
 

Large statistics look at pion centroid for run11

 This is over all PT. The data was taken from days 64, 65, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,  91, 95, 96, 97, 98. It shows the pion mass is ~8% off.

POSTER session

UPC PWG parallel

Bulk corr PWG parallel

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00STAR Correlations and Fluctuations ( 00:45 ) 3 filesPaul Sorensen (BNL)
09:45Search for local strong parity violation in star using multiple observables ( 00:45 ) 1 fileDhevan Gangadharan (Ohio State)
10:30
Coffee Break ( 00:45 )
 
11:15Energy dependence of the freeze out eccentricity from azimuthal dependence of HBT at STAR ( 00:45 ) 1 fileChristopher Anson (Ohio State)
12:00
Lunch ( 02:00 )
 
14:00Event anisotropy v2 of identified hadrons and light nuclei in Au+Au collisions at = 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV with STAR ( 00:45 ) 2 filesAlexander Schmah (LBNL)
14:45Searching for the QCD Critical Point Using Particle Ratio Fluctuations and Higher Moments of Multiplicity Distributions ( 00:45 ) 2 filesTerence Tarnowsky (Michigan State)
15:30Femptoscopy ( 00:30 ) 0 filesRichard Lednicky (Michigan State)

Jet corr PWG parallel