The STAR experiment

 --- Editorial Board Agenda  April 7, 2017 ---

1. Welcome & Organizational matters
2. Review & feedback on list of active GPCs
   • See www.star.bnl.gov/protected/common/GPCs/gpc-active.xml
   • Currently 22 active GPC,  13 responses. (previous EB: 10 out of 21)
3. Discussion on status of selected GPCs 
   • >12 months in GPC w/o Collaboration Review: #210, #211, #216,  #219
   • >6 months in GPC w/o Collaboration Review:  #225, #227
   • >3 months after Collaboration Review: -
   • >6 months after Journal submission:  #217 (resubmitted after having been on held pending STAR/PHENIX committee) 
4. PWGC topics:
   • Upcoming collaboration meeting: parallel sessions, highlights, overview talks.
   • QM proceedings
   • PWG paper status
5. AOB

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1) Presentation by Will Jacobs on the EMC detector.

The idea is to remind PWGs of its (future) physics potential, and the work that is needed to get it there. This presentation should serve as a seed for discussions in all PWGs and will continue in a dedicated session during the collaboration meeting.
Slides at https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/wwjacobs/use-emcs-2018-2020

2) Update on production status

see Jerome's summary at this week's S&C meeting:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2017/04/19/software-and-computing-meeting/aob

3) Status picoDST format updates

Work ongoing on FMS by Maowu/Prithwish and on BEMC by Bingchu. Overall coordination/integration by Ayeh. 

4) Distributed Disk: MuDST to picoDST - PWG priorities.

http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/4310.html 

Only minimal feedback from the PWGs. That can easily be interpreted as the green light from your PWG for any migration from MuDST to picoDST. 

Feedback:

• BulkCorr - focus mostly on BES picoDST pending tracker tests  http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/4312/1.html
• HF - http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/4311/1.html
• JetCorr -  no response
  • discussion started at http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/jetcorr/1936/1/1.html
• LFSUPC - no response - green light?
• Spin - no response (no need for picoDSTs)

5) PWG updates on paper plans.

Please me your update before tomorrow's meeting. It is important that we keep the overview of ongoing analyses and plans towards papers up to date.
Feedback:

• BulkCorr -  http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/bulkcorr/3338.html
• HF - https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/hf-pwg-paper-plans-20170414
• JetCorr - received input from Kolja
• LFSUPC - no response
• Spin - no response

6) Collaboration Meeting

•  parallel sessions
•  PWG reports
•  conveners-management meeting

Feedback

• BulkCorr - no response
• HF : http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starpwgc/4304/1.html
• JetCorr - no response
• LFSUPC - no response
• Spin - no response

7) AOB

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1) Disk quota: DD cleanup

Synopsis: At this time the Run0-16 production involves the generation of picoDSTs. However, lack of available disk space forces the production team to off-load those files relatively soon to HPSS. This leaves only very little time for PWG QA, let alone allow analysis teams to take advantage of the new data as it appears.  Cleanup follow the DD cleanup prioritization has been paused pending picoDST format updates that allow inclusion of the FMS and EMC.

HF PWG has proposed a specific removal of certain parts of the Run-14 200GeV dataset. See 

http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/heavy/5218.html

Additionally, temporary stop-gap measures have been proposed that would allow storage in the PWG_TASK and PWG areas.

2) Update on picoDST development

FMS and EMC data need to be included in the picoDST format. FMS inclusion is mostly driven through the BulkCorr group and is on track for inclusion. EMC inclusion is more involved as it requires additional software modules to be redeveloped and/or refactored. The EMC inclusion is driven by HF/JetCorr PWGs.

3) PWG updates on paper plans.

Please me your update before tomorrow's meeting. It is important that we keep the overview of ongoing analyses and plans towards papers up to date.
Feedback:

• BulkCorr -  http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/bulkcorr/3338.html
• HF - https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/hf-pwg-paper-plans-20170414
• JetCorr - received input from Kolja
• LFSUPC - no response
• Spin - received response from Oleg

4) Collaboration Meeting

•  parallel sessions
•  PWG reports
•  conveners-management meeting

Pending Feedback

• JetCorr - parallel agenda
• LFSUPC - parallel agenda + speaker

5) AOB

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1) QM approval status

please be prepared to briefly indicate the approval status for each 

of the oral/poster contributions that stem from your PWG

2) Pre-QM meeting

 - Plenary sessions finalized

 - Parallel agendas (BulkCorr and JetCorr are still missing).

3) QM highlights talk

 - Request to PWGs to provide highlight plots to Alex Schmah 

4) DIS abstract submission

5) PWGC preview

Title: J/psi cross section and event activities in p+p at  200GeV

PWG: Heavy Flavor

PAs: Xiaozhi Bai, Bingchu Huang, Zhenyu Ye

Target Journal: PLB

Proposal Page:

http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/huangbc/web/Jpsi_production_and_event_activites/

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Rongrong Ma]

- Paper proposal (15')  [Bingchu Huang] 

- Open discussions (35')

- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

6) AOB

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