Town meeting: PWG restructuring / 5-Year Run Plan - BUR

Status of STAR / RUN 8 Summary

Welcome

Parallel Session - BES Focus Group

TimeTalkPresenter
14:45Physics of the BES Program --- One Slide Presentations ( 00:05 ) 1 fileDeclan Keane (Kent State)
15:00Discussion of "Addressing the PAC Comments" ( 00:20 ) 0 filesAll (Kent State)
15:20Low Energy Data Analysis ( 00:20 ) 1 fileRosi Reed and Debasish Das (Kent State)
15:40
Afternoon Break ( 00:20 )
 
17:00Extension of tracking with GEM detectors to large eta ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBernd Surrow (Kent State)
17:30Detector Options Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAll (Kent State)

Town meeting: Long-term future of STAR

Speaker : Discussion moderator: Zhangbu Xu ( BNL )


Talk time : 16:45, Duration : 00:45

BSMD

Changes to the BSMD software and hardware are proposed to take advantage of the DAQ1000 improvements anticipated for Runs 9-10.  The previous hardware changes for Run 8 are also described.

Speaker : Steve Trentalange ( UCLA )


Talk time : 16:35, Duration : 00:10

Trigger Upgrades

GEM Tracking Alignment

SSD

HFT

Gamma-Gamma Converter

MTD

FGT

 Brief overview of the Forward GEM Tracking upgrade: motivation, technology, prototypes, status, and plans.

Speaker : Doug Hasell ( MIT )


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

DAQ 1000 Installation progress

TOF installation update

B study from Yale


Talk time : 02:10, Duration : 00:20

B meson simulation


Talk time : 02:00, Duration : 00:10

What would be your choice of entree for the 2008 UCDavis banquet dinner:

Portello Duck: Duck breast medallions topped with a rich port sauce and served with roasted fingerling potatoes
66% (23 votes)
Roast Prime Rib: Roast prime rib with cabernet jus an individual yorkshire puddings
11% (4 votes)
Eggplant Tian (vegetarian option): Eggplant stuffed with chopped kalamata olives, zucchini, capers, ... served with couscous
17% (6 votes)
None, I don't plan to attend the banquet.
6% (2 votes)
Total votes: 35

Parrallel Session - HFT Group

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00HFT Software overview ( 00:20 ) 1 fileSpiros Margetis, Jonathan
14:20Thoughts on B-Meson simulation ( 00:20 ) 1 fileGang Wang
14:40B->J/Psi+X simulation; Status and Plans ( 00:20 ) 1 fileQuan
15:00B triggering using the HFT? - First Steps ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHoward Matis
15:20IST status and plans ( 00:20 ) 0 filesBernd Surrow (MIT)
15:40
Break ( 00:10 )
 
15:50How to build Pixel geometry ( 00:20 ) 1 fileAndrew Rose (LBNL)
16:10Discussion finishing geometry - Update ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAndrew / Gerrit (LBNL)
16:40Discuson finishing geometry update session ( 00:10 ) 0 filesAll; led by Andrew and Gerrit (LBNL)
16:50PIXEL detector Slow Simulator ( 00:30 ) 1 fileXin Li (LBNL)