FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-11-02 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 2 November 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Agenda:
  

 

1) Status of production and tests of remaining quarter sections : Bernd / Jason / Ross / Will

2) Clean-room status at BNL
 : Bernd / Gerrit / Xuan

3) Installation : Bernd / Jason

4) 
Summary of software activities : Akio / Anselm / Renee / Xuan

5) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard

6) AOB : ALL 

  

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FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-10-26 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 26 October 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Agenda:
  

 

1) Status of production of remaining quarter sections : Jason / Ross / Will

2) News on integration
 : Jason

3) Cosmic-ray testing
 : Akio / Bernd / Gerrit / Ramiro


4) 
Summary of software activities : Akio / Anselm / Renee / Xuan

  • Cosmic-ray test 
  • MuDst 
  • Slow simulator 

5) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard

6) AOB : ALL



 
TimeTalkPresenter
10:00First readout tests new 3 quadrants ( 00:20 ) 2 filesGerrit

FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-10-19 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 19 October 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
 Agenda:  

 

1) Status of production of remaining quarter sections : Jason / Ross / Will 

2) Status of tooling at BNL / Installation : Jason

3) Summary of software activities : Akio / Anselm / Renee / Xuan

4) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard

5) DNP FGT
 talks: 

6) AOB : ALL 

  

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FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-10-12 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 12 October 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

 

Agenda:  

 

1) Status of production of remaining quarter sections : Ross / Jason

2) Status of tooling at BNL / Installation : Jason

3) Summary of software activities / Cosmic-ray test / MuDst : Anselm / Akio / Renee / Xuan

4) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard 

5) AOB : ALL 

  

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FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-10-05 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 5 October 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Agenda:  

 

1) Update / News : Bernd

2) Status of production of remaining quarter sections : Jason / Ross / Bernd

3) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard et al.

4) Summary of software activities : Anselm et al.

5) AOB : ALL 

 

 

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FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-09-28 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 28 September 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

Agenda:  

1) Update / News : Bernd

2) Status of production of remaining quarter sections : Jason / Ross / Bernd

3) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard et al.

4) Summary of software activities : Anselm et al.

5) Manpower / Schedule : 

a) Test / Debugging following full installation: November - December 2012

  • Connections: 
    • Gas
    • HV connections
    • Signal cable connections
  • Flush gas
  • HV ramp 
  • Pedestal runs

b) Run 13 (Commissioning / On-site expert coverage during physics running): January - June 2013

  • Commissioning: January - February 2012: Need offline crew
  • Physics running: March - June 2013: On-site Expert coverage

c) Other lab tests: 

  • Source tests after installation 

6) AOB : ALL 

 

 

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FGT Weekly Meeting

2012-09-21 11:00
America/New York
Friday, 21 September 2012
BNL , at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00

 

Agenda:

 

1) 2012 1st phase installation: Xuan / Bernd / Jason

2) DAQ (ARC / ARM status) : Gerard et al.

3) Production of remaining quarter sections : Jason / Bernd

4) Summary of software activities : Anselm et al.

5) AOB : ALL 


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TimeTalkPresenter
11:00ARM & ARC status and inventory ( 00:01 ) 2 filesgerard

TPC charge distribution fit to power law

For many years, we have used the following distribution to model space charge in the TPC, taken from StRoot/StDbUtilities/StMagUtilities.cxx:

K+ (for Phi) in run 10 Au+Au 7.7 GeV

Request TypeStandard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Description

 Minbias Trigger (290001, 290004)

Library: SL10h
flat pT: [0, 5] GeV
flat Eta: [-1.1, 1.1]
VertexZ: [-70, 70] cm
Vr < 2 cm
Events: 500 K
No. of Kaon+ per event: 5% remult

General Information
Request ID20123804
Priority: EC0
Priority: pwgNormal
StatusNew
Physics Working GroupLight Flavor Spectra
Requested byzhux
Contact email(s)zhux@tsinghua.edu.cn, xpzhangnju@gmail.com
Contact phone(s)
PWG email(s)lfspectra-hn@www.star.bnl.gov
Assigned Deputy: Not assigned
Assigned Helper: Not assigned
Global Simulation Settings
Request type:Standard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Number of events500000 = 500 K
Magnetic Field---- SELECT MAGFIELD ----
Collision Typeauau 7.7GeV
Centrality---- SELECT CENTRALITY ----
BFC tags
ProductionP10ih
Geometry: simu---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
Geometry: reco---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
LibrarySL10h_embed
Vertex optionForce vertex as MC vertex, pick vertex from tag file for simulated data
Pileup optionNo
Detector Set
Data Sources
Real Data
File lookup
Single Particle MC
ParticleAlpha
Particle settingsdalitz
Particles per event1
Vertex Z, cm-30 < Vertex < 30
Gaussian sigma in X,Y,Z (cm), if applicable0, 0, 0
Vertex offset: x, mm0
Vertex offset: y, mm0
Φ (phi), radian0 < Φ < 6.29
η (eta)-0.5 < η < 0.5
Pt, GeV0 < Pt < 30

K+ (for Phi) in run 10 Au+Au 11.5 GeV

Request TypeStandard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Description

 Minbias Trigger (310014)

Library: SL10h
flat pT: [0, 5] GeV
flat Eta: [-1.1, 1.1]
VertexZ: [-50, 50] cm
Vr < 2 cm
Events: 500 K
No. of Kaon+ per event: 5% remult

General Information
Request ID20123803
Priority: EC0
Priority: pwgNormal
StatusNew
Physics Working GroupLight Flavor Spectra
Requested byzhux
Contact email(s)zhux@tsinghua.edu.cn, xpzhangnju@gmail.com
Contact phone(s)
PWG email(s)lfspectra-hn@www.star.bnl.gov
Assigned Deputy: Not assigned
Assigned Helper: Not assigned
Global Simulation Settings
Request type:Standard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Number of events500000 = 500 K
Magnetic Field---- SELECT MAGFIELD ----
Collision Typeauau 11.5GeV
Centrality---- SELECT CENTRALITY ----
BFC tags
ProductionP10ih
Geometry: simu---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
Geometry: reco---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
LibrarySL10h_embed
Vertex optionForce vertex as MC vertex, pick vertex from tag file for simulated data
Pileup optionNo
Detector Set
Data Sources
Real Data
File lookup
Single Particle MC
ParticleAlpha
Particle settingsdalitz
Particles per event1
Vertex Z, cm-30 < Vertex < 30
Gaussian sigma in X,Y,Z (cm), if applicable0, 0, 0
Vertex offset: x, mm0
Vertex offset: y, mm0
Φ (phi), radian0 < Φ < 6.29
η (eta)-0.5 < η < 0.5
Pt, GeV0 < Pt < 30

K+ (for Phi) in run 10 Au+Au 39 GeV

Request TypeStandard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Description

 Minbias Trigger (280001, 280002)

Library: SL10k
flat pT: [0, 5] GeV
flat Eta: [-1.1, 1.1]
VertexZ: [-40, 40] cm
Vr < 2 cm
Events: 500 K
No. of Kaon+ per event: 5% remult

General Information
Request ID20123802
Priority: EC0
Priority: pwgNormal
StatusNew
Physics Working GroupLight Flavor Spectra
Requested byzhux
Contact email(s)zhux@tsinghua.edu.cn, xpzhangnju@gmail.com
Contact phone(s)
PWG email(s)lfspectra-hn@www.star.bnl.gov
Assigned Deputy: Not assigned
Assigned Helper: Not assigned
Global Simulation Settings
Request type:Standard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Number of events500000 = 500 K
Magnetic Field---- SELECT MAGFIELD ----
Collision Typeauau 39GeV
Centrality---- SELECT CENTRALITY ----
BFC tags
ProductionP10ik
Geometry: simu---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
Geometry: reco---- SELECT GEOMETRY ----
LibrarySL10k_embed
Vertex optionForce vertex as MC vertex, pick vertex from tag file for simulated data
Pileup optionNo
Detector Set
Data Sources
Real Data
File lookup
Single Particle MC
ParticleAlpha
Particle settingsdalitz
Particles per event1
Vertex Z, cm-30 < Vertex < 30
Gaussian sigma in X,Y,Z (cm), if applicable0, 0, 0
Vertex offset: x, mm0
Vertex offset: y, mm0
Φ (phi), radian0 < Φ < 6.29
η (eta)-0.5 < η < 0.5
Pt, GeV0 < Pt < 30

Improving results on transerve double spin asymmetries in the CNI region at STAR

Speaker : Dima Svirida


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:20

Dima's talk:

Upsilon 1s,2s,3s in p+p Run 9

Request TypeStandard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Description
-----------------------------------------
 p+p 200 GeV (year 2009)
 fast stream data st_upsilon

 30K events for each states (1s, 2s, 3s)
 flat in pT and y:
 pT= 0 - 10 GeV/c
 y= -2.0 - 2.0
 no VertexZ cut
 1 Upsilon per event
 let the Upsilon decay only into e+e-

 production version:  P11id  match data
 starver: SL11d
 geant geometry option: y2009
 ------------------------------------------
General Information
Request ID20123801
Priority: EC0
Priority: pwgNormal
StatusClosed
Physics Working GroupHeavy Flavor
Requested bybielcik
Contact email(s)akesich@gmail.com, jaroslav.bielcik@fjfi.cvut.cz
Contact phone(s)
PWG email(s)heavy-hn@www.star.bnl.gov
Assigned Deputy: Not assigned
Assigned Helper: Not assigned
Global Simulation Settings
Request type:Standard Embedding request (particle in real events)
Number of events30000 = 30 K
Magnetic FieldFull-Field
Collision Typedau 200GeV
Centrality---- SELECT CENTRALITY ----
BFC tagsst_upsilon
Production---- SELECT PRODUCTION TAG ----
Geometry: simu
Geometry: reco
LibrarySL11d_embed
Vertex optionForce vertex as MC vertex
Pileup optionNo
Detector Set
Data Sources
Real Data
File lookup
Single Particle MC
ParticleUpsilon1S
Particle settingsFlat in Pt
Particles per event1
Vertex Z, cm-150 < Vertex < 150
Gaussian sigma in X,Y,Z (cm), if applicable0, 0, 0
Vertex offset: x, mm0
Vertex offset: y, mm0
Φ (phi), radian0 < Φ < 6.39
η (eta)-2 < η < 2
Pt, GeV0 < Pt < 10

eSTAR

2012-10-02 12:00
2012-10-02 13:00
America/New York
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
EVO 14 3853 (Tuesday 10/02 noon), at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

Agenda:

 

1) Update on FCS
 

a) physics drives
(diject correlation mapping of CGC boundary)?
use in Heavy-ion runs (lighter ions?)

b) simulations

c) proposal (LoI)?

2) update on iTPC

a) simulation of tracking (Hui et al.)

different padrow configurations

b) proposal

Technically driven schedule
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/STAR_iTPC_technical_schedule_09242012.pdf

DOE (3-4M$?)
possible 3 subprojects:
electronics (DOE) , East (NNSFC?), West(NSF associated with EEMC?)
need engineer cost estimate ;
proposal section contributions;

c) request for iTPC R&D in FY13 (Jim) (~200K$?)

  i) design/build a prototype Aluminum Strongback (can we also reduce material)

  ii) optimize pad sizes

  iii) lab testing of the new pad and wire geometry

  iv) winding machine setup/prototyping at IU(?)

  v) Super-ALTRO prototyping and design for FEE

3) next EIC R&D calls

https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/index.php/EIC_R%25D

Deadline: October 26, 2012 (presentation around November 22, 2012)

4) STAR Analysis and Upgrade Meeting, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2012, UCLA

5) other items

 

Ernst & Zhangbu

eSTAR

2012-09-18 12:00
2012-09-18 13:00
America/New York
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
EVO 14 3853 (Tuesday 09/04 noon), at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

Agenda:

 

1) Update on FCS
 

    a) physics drives
       (diject correlation mapping of CGC boundary)? 
       use in Heavy-ion runs (lighter ions?)

    b) simulations

    c) proposal (LoI)?

2) update on iTPC

  a)  simulation of tracking (Hui et al.)

  b) proposal

     DOE (3-4M$?)
     possible 3 subprojects: 
     electronics (DOE) , East (NNSFC?), West(NSF associated with EEMC?)
     need engineer cost estimate ;
     proposal section contributions;

3) test beam proposal calls

http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/estar/117.html

4) next EIC R&D calls

https://wiki.bnl.gov/conferences/index.php/EIC_R%25D

Deadline: October 26, 2012 (presentation around November 22, 2012)

5)  STAR Analysis and Upgrade Meeting, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2012, UCLA

6) other items

 

Ernst & Zhangbu

STAR Inner Detector Support pictures Sept 2012

 A couple of pictures by BNL photography after IDS was lifted to platform.

dev14 misalignment

Speaker : jonathan


Talk time : 12:50, Duration : 00:20
  •  look at the Stipulls data when 1 PXL sector is shifted along Z axis by 1 cm

The batch general queue allows your jobs to run on PHENIX nodes. How important is this feature to you?

Very, I use all the time and it provides a significant boost to my job throughput
9% (2 votes)
Somewhat important, I use it sometimes but it does not provide a big job increase
9% (2 votes)
Neutral, I may use it but not very useful to speed up my work
23% (5 votes)
Not important (tried and not worth the effort)
5% (1 vote)
I am not even aware of that queue
55% (12 votes)
Total votes: 22

FGT Event Display screenshots

 Status Update:  The FGT geometry and pedistal values are now being read from the common database.  Everything still works just fine.

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2012-09-21 12:00
2012-09-21 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 21 September 2012
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

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 Time:  12 - 13 EDT

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

I.  Agenda:

               iTPC DIscussions:

 

               Note from Jim/Zhangbu:

                1.) Organize the project, recover lost & retired skills.  Review available drawings and documentation.  Arrange for best available manpower

                      and write contracts with institutions.  6 FTE months.  

                2.) Mechanical design:  a.) Strongback - 6 FTE months   b.) Pad Plane (mechanical) - 3 FTE months   

                                                           c.) Grids and Wire Factory design and layout - 6 FTE months  
                      These activities can be done in series or in parallel, depending on available human resources.  

               3.) Electrical design:    a.) Pad Plane (electrical) - 3 FTE months      b.) FEE - 6 FTE months (need input from Tonko, ignores problem with sAltro)
                                                        c.) RDO - 6 FTE months (need input from Tonko, ignores problem with sAltro)   
                     These activities can be done in series or in parallel, depending on available human resources.  

               4.) Cooling - 3 FTE months  

               5.) Mechanical Fabrication     a.) Strongback - 3 months duration at outside shop plus time to write and sign contract.  Guesstimate 15K per sector.  
                                                                    b.) Grids - 1 year duration.  Need to build small factory.  3 Techs fulltime.   

               6.) Electrical Fabrication   a.) Pad plane - 3 months duration at outside shop plus time to write and sign contract.  Guesstimate 5K per sector.  
                                                              b.) FEE - less than 1 year duration.  Guesstimate 750K for all Fee's.  
                                                              c.) RDO - less than 1 year duration.  Guesstimate 500k for all RDO's.  

               7.) Installation    a.) Mechanical - 3 months duration.  3 techs full time.  b.) Electrical - 3 months duration.  3 techs full time.  

                   This plan assumes that the Sector Installation tool will be paid for by STAR operations.  Further, it is assumed that the Sector Installation tool

                   design will be completed in the summer of 2013; fabricated and safety approved and tested before the summer of 2014.  Finally one or more

                  sectors must be installed and tested with the new sector installation tool before we install the full iTPC upgrade.  So if the tool is ready for use in

                  the summer of 2014, we install one sector (sector 20?) and test it in the subsequent run.  Assuming success, this means the iTPC upgrade can

                  be installed in the summer of 2015 (for run 16).

                  So with a dedicated and efficient team, the iTPC upgrade can be completed in a duration of 3 years ... but this is fairly fast paced and it assumes

                  that the very best people are ready and available to work on the project.

                 45% contingency is about the maximum that Physicists will allow and  the minimum that the DOE will accept for a project at this stage of development ;-)

                  Grand Total: 2 Million labor + 1.75 Million Fabrications + 45% = $5.4M
                  Duration: 3 years

 

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

             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

 

 III. Note:

 2012 RHIC/AGS Thesis Award: Congratulations to Len Eun, full citation.

  ► 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:

  ► SPIN2012, Dubna, Russia, September 17-22, 2012

  ► QCD Phase Structure I, Wuhan, October 7-20, 2012

  ► STAR Regional Meeting, Warsaw, Poland, November 5-7, 2012

  ► STAR Analysis and Upgrade Meeting, UCLA, November 28 - December 2, 2012 

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 25 - March 1, 2013