STAR Management Meeting

2009-07-30 11:00
2009-07-30 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 30 July 2009
BNL, I-189 Conference room, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

EVO: Title: STAR Management Meeting // Community:  STAR // Password:  star

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   Time:  11am - 12noon EDT

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  Agenda:

    1)    Status: QM09 proceedings - Bedanga
    2)    RHIC S&T Review: more on upgrade management -  Nu

    3)    AOB

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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency: Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Bedanga, Nu

  1) Upgrade management: watching more closely on costs and schedule, meet DoE's.

  2) Manpower/recourse for TPC: working in progress. Will need more effort to cover Run10.

  3) Run10 preparation: Expect shift starts 2nd week of Dec. 2009. Olga will send a message to the council for author list of each institute.

  4) QM09 proceedings: the organizers will be contacted to discuss the late submission of the two STAR jet-reconstruction proceegings.

  5) No management meetings next two weeks. The next regular meeting will be on Aug. 20th.  

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) FMS Review, P. Jacobs (chair)

  Future Meetings:

    1) STAR-DoE ToF Review, Aug. 10-11, BNL

    2) STAR FMS Review, Sept. 1-2, BNL

    3) STAR-DoE HFT CD-1 review, Sept. 10-11 or 14-15, BNL

    4) STAR Regional meeting: Sept. 25-26, Rio, Brazil

    5) SQM2009: Sept. 27-Oct. 2, Buzios, Brazil

    6) STAR Collaboration meeting, Oct. 5-10, Berkeley

    7) DNP 2009, Oct. 13 - 17, Waikoloa

Polarizations for each fill

July 24 Comparison of C Means Weights

I ran a quick comparison study of C means weighting methods. I changed the weighting from being (|Dist|2+.1) to (|Dist|3+.1).

Debugging...

 

T0 Calibration Update

July 23 Monte Carlo Clustering Jet/Gamma Breakdown

Yesterday's graphs didn't show the split between the gamma signal and the background. So, here are those new graphs. If someone needs to see more of the cuts, just let me know.

July 23 Run on Data

Here are the output graphs for a run of the clusterer over the data Professor Webb asked me to run it over.

TOF: Investigating the West Sector 4 current spikes seen after Run 2009

Hi All,

Pixel Ladder Cooling Testing

Speaker : Andrew


Talk time : 12:20, Duration : 00:20

More???


Talk time : 12:30, Duration : 00:20

Radiation Testing

Speaker : Hannah


Talk time : 12:10, Duration : 00:20

Phase I Testing

Speaker : Michal


Talk time : 11:50, Duration : 00:20

PIXEL full/fast simulation

Speaker : Alex


Talk time : 11:30, Duration : 00:20

SSD Leakage Current Study

Speaker : Howard M.


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

IST

Speaker : Gerrit


Talk time : 10:50, Duration : 00:20

Pixel Electrical

Speaker : Leo


Talk time : 10:30, Duration : 00:20

Pixel Mechanical

Speaker : Howard W.


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

News

Speaker : Flemming


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

Histogram Problem Progress

 

Spin PWG presentation on ZDC radial dependence