Run 8 preparation meetings #8

2007-11-30 15:00
2007-11-30 17:00
Etc/GMT-5
Friday, 30 November 2007
1-189, HighSpeed Conference Bridge, at 20:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00

Going over the action items from our last meeting.

Database issues.

FastOffline chain progress and readiness.

Pion-Kaon data vs. Therminator

Speaker : Adam Kisiel ( OSU )


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

www.star.bnl.gov/protected/hbt/kisiel/071129/PionKaonTherminator.php

Trigger Emulator Test

In StTriggerSimuMaker, I get the "nominal" trigger from the MuDst, then execute the following
code --

Albedo from the support structure

Tests with new geometry, single IST layer

Speaker : Willie,Jan, Spiros


Talk time : 13:40, Duration : 00:20

D0 background estimation

Speaker : Jan


Talk time : 13:20, Duration : 00:20

Proposed agenda/softw talks at LBL vetting review Dec 17/18

Speaker : All


Talk time : 13:00, Duration : 00:20

HFT hardware meeting

2007-11-29 13:00
2007-11-29 14:00
Etc/GMT-5
Thursday, 29 November 2007
phone meeting +1-510-486-7333, at 18:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
1)  To put the agenda in Drupal   - Howard M.
2)  Mechanical supports of the detector - Howard W.
3)  Trigger and dead time responses - Leo
4)  IST - Gerrit    (??)
5) Additional Items

Getting information on old simulation requests

System for submitting and viewing simulation request was taken down after web server incident. This is still useful information though.

Trigger Simu Test

I am trying to figure out why the trigger simulator only returns as 'good' a fraction of the events returned as 'good' by the online L2-gamma trigger.  Let me state that a different way...

Anything Else


Talk time : 01:00, Duration : 00:20

Software : hit residual

Speaker : Jonathan


Talk time : 00:50, Duration : 00:10

L2 Status

Speaker : Michael


Talk time : 00:30, Duration : 00:20

Shipping of Detectors

Speaker : Michael


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

Current status of review committees

Speaker : Everyone


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

ZDC

Under:

Hardware and software related to ZDC

Updated Charged Pion A_{LL} predictions

Received some new NLO pQCD predictions from Werner incorporating DSS fragmentation functions.  Here's a comparison of these predictions to the old mocked up ones used in the SPIN 2006 preliminary result:




No really dramatic changes here.  The increased asymmetries might mean that g-g scattering is even more important than predicted originally.  Of course, this goes in the wrong direction if we're looking for better agreement with our Pythia.

online QA test

I'm attaching two pdfs showing the online QA plots from run 8330100 for the EEMC trig HT input, DSM layer-0 and BEMC trig BEMC DSM LO input - High Tower. Let me know if they look reasonable??

2008 BEMC Preliminary Timing Curves from L2 Data

Jan Balewski suggested that I try to determine the BEMC timing curves
from L2 data.  Here is my first attempt from the data Oleg Tsai took a few days
ago:

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