PWGC Meeting

2017-12-22 11:30
2017-12-22 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 22 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00

Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 
Title: Underlying Event Measurements in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC
PWG: JetCorr
PAs:  Helen Caines, Li Yi
Proposed target journal:  Phys Rev C
Webpage: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/
Presentation: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/paperproposalreview.pdf
Paper draft: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/underlying-event-measurements_v4.pdf
Analysis note: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/AnalysisNote_v3.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Kolja]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Li Yi
]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

2)
 PWGC Preview
"The PAs should have a COMPLETE set of systematics and candidate FINAL figures and tables with proposed "final paper" figure and table captions. Also, in addition to the abstract, they should have the proposed concluding paragraph."

3) LBNL Collaboration meeting

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-29 11:30
2017-12-29 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 29 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-08 11:30
2017-12-08 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 8 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00
Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 

Title: Measurements of Jpsi supperssion in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR
PWG: Heavy Flavor 
PAs:   Zubayer Ahammed, Daniel Brandenburg, Joey Butterworth, Feng-han Chang, Subhasish Chattopadhyay, Geary Eppley, Frank Geurts, Dong Han, Bingchu Huang, Te-Chuan Huang, Xinjie Huang, Alexander Jentsch, Eleanor Judd, Bill Llope, Cheng Li, Yuanjing Li, Yanfang Liu, Zhen Liu, Rongrong Ma, Christina Markert, Saskia Mioduszewski, Ted Nussbaum, Chris Perkins, Lanny Ray, Lijuan Ruan, Joachim Schambach, Yongjie Sun, Zebo Tang, David Tlusty, Takahito Todoroki, Yi Wang, Zhangbu Xu, Chi Yang, Qian Yang, Shuai Yang, Yi Yang, Wangmei Zha, Xianglei Zhu

Proposed target journal:  Phys Lets. B

Presentation 
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/SupportMaterial/PaperProposal.pdf
Proposal webpage http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/PaperProposal/
Analysis note: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/AnalysisNote/JpsiRaa_AN_v1.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Petr]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Rongrong]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-01 11:30
2017-12-01 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 1 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00
Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 

Title: Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of D0-meson production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV
PWG: Heavy Flavor 
PAs:  Xiaolong Chen, Xin Dong, Michael Lomnitz, Mustafa Mustafa, Hao Qiu, Zebo Tang, Guannan Xie, Zhenyu Ye, Yifei Zhang et al.
Proposed target journal:  Phys Rev C
Presentation: https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/note/20171201_PWGC_GXie.pdf
Proposal wepage: https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/proposal/D0SpectraPaper.html
Paper draft : https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/draft/20171201_D0spectra.pdf
Analysis Note : https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/note/20171102_D0spectra_Note.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Rongrong]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Guannan]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

2) QM2018 abstracts: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/quark-matter-2018-star-abstracts
Heavy  5 oral (+12 poster)
JetCorr 4 (+2)
Instru. 2 (+2)
LFSUPC 6 (+1): triton and He3, Al+Au in FXT and Au+Au in FXT (BulkCorr), dimuon, strangeness in U+U
BulkCorr 13 (+7) https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/llope/qm18abstracts

QM2015 (28 submitted, 18 accepted for oral presentation)
BulkCorr: 10 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
HF: 8 submitted, 6 accepted for oral.
JC: 3 submitted, 2 accepted for oral.
LFS: 5 submitted, 4 accepted for oral.
Instr.: 2 submitted, 1 accepted for oral.   

QM2017 (27 submitted, 17 accepted for oral presentation)
BulkCorr: 12 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
HF: 5 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
JC: 4 submitted, 3 accepted for oral.
LFS: 4 submitted, 3 accepted for oral.
Instr.: 2 submitted, 1 accepted for oral.

3) Embedding requests

Run14 pi+- without HFT in tracking from JetCorr for QM18 (2 weeks)
Run16 pi/k/p/Upsilon from HF for QM18 (2 weeks, kick in anytime once the ticket is resolved, since they have been waiting for a long time).
CuAu pi/k/p requests from LFSUPC for QM18 (2 weeks)
BES K*0 requests from Bulkcorr (3 weeks)
Diffractive processes in Run 15 data from LFSUPC (?)

STAR (Forward-)Upgrade Meeting

2017-11-07 10:00
America/New York

 Agenda:
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- Lijuan: update on sTGC plans
- Oleg: update on forward HCAL and ECAL R&D

Weekly Meeting (Nov. 6, FMS analyzers)

- Chong: FMS BS QA update (2)
- Minghui: FMS point geometry match.

Homework assignments

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 11:20, Duration : 00:10

 

Open discussions

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 10:50, Duration : 00:30

 

Review of PWGC recommendations

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 10:45, Duration : 00:05

 

Code QA report

Speaker : Long Ma ( Fudan University )


Talk time : 10:25, Duration : 00:20

 

Summary of PWG Comments

Speaker : Zebo Tang ( USTC )


Talk time : 10:15, Duration : 00:10

 

Review of analysis details and physics conclusions

Speaker : David Tlusty ( Rice University )


Talk time : 09:30, Duration : 00:45

 

GPC Meeting #1: pp500 D-meson paper

2017-11-07 09:30
America/New York
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Bluejeans, at 14:30 (GMT), duration : 00:00
1) - 45' Presentation by PA on the analysis details, physics points - David
2) - 10' PWG comments - Zebo
3) - 20' Presentation by Long on code QA - Long
4) - 5' Review of the PWGC comments
5) - 30' Open discussion
6) - 10' Homework assignment

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Paper Information
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Paper Manuscript :
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http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/tlusty/Dstar2011/PaperProposal/documents/PaperDraftV11.pdf

Supporting Documents :
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/tlusty/Dstar2011/PaperProposal/

Technical Notes :
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STAR Note : PSN0677
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/private/psn0677

Analysis Code are kept at :
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$CVSROOT/offline/paper/psn0677

Recommendations from PWGC during paper preview :
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http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/4096.html

GPC ID: 242

TimeTalkPresenter
09:30Review of analysis details and physics conclusions ( 00:45 ) 1 fileDavid Tlusty (Rice University)
10:15Summary of PWG Comments ( 00:10 ) 0 filesZebo Tang (USTC)
10:25Code QA report ( 00:20 ) 1 fileLong Ma (Fudan University)
10:45Review of PWGC recommendations ( 00:05 ) 0 filesAll (All)
10:50Open discussions ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAll (All)
11:20Homework assignments ( 00:10 ) 0 filesAll (All)

Talk for APS FarWest Meeting 2017 v6

 FarWest APS talk v6

Isobar switching committee report

Speaker : Fuqiang Wang, Prithwish Tribedy


Talk time : 16:25, Duration : 00:10

Dihadrons in PYTHIA

 partonic variables for comparison with GPC 231 (IFF paper)

Plan for QM2018 U->ee in AuAu14

 

Geometry of FMS, Preshower and Postshower

 Preshower: 3 layer of Scintillators, one Lead placed in front of the third layer of Scintillator. Thickness are 1.0cm, 1.0cm, 0.635cm(1 radiation length), 1.0cm.

Analysis Meeting

 Draft Analysis meeting talk

ZTPC_plots

 All of the ZTPC plots for proton spectra