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TPC tracking efficiency at mid-rapidity

TPC tracking efficiency at mid-rapidity

HFT bi-monthly- day 1

2010-03-10 09:00
2010-03-10 17:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
BNL, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 08:00

 The bi-monthly face to face will be at BNL March 10,11.

The venue is the Atlas video conference room 2-84.

 

Booked on EVO Information:

title: HFT face2face
Description: bi-monthly meeting - agenda on STAR drupal
Community: STAR
Password: STARHFT

Meeting Access Information:
- Meeting URL
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/koala.jnlp?meeting=MIM9Ms2M2nDnDi9e9aDa9I

- Password: STARHFT
- Phone Bridge
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Password: 0829

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TimeTalkPresenter
09:15Welcome & project Overview ( 00:30 ) 1 fileF.Videbaek (BNL)
09:45PXL electronics ( 00:45 ) 2 filesL.Greiner
10:30BREAK ( 00:20 ) 0 files
10:50PXL mechanical ( 00:40 ) 1 fileH.Wieman (LBNL)
11:30IST status ( 00:45 ) 1 fileGerrit J. van Nieuwenhuizen II (MIT)
12:15LUNCH ( 01:30 ) 0 files
13:45SSD upgrade ( 00:45 ) 1 fileM.LeVine (BNL)
14:30IDS and integration ( 00:30 ) 2 filesE.Anderssen (LBNL)
15:00BREAK ( 00:20 ) 0 files
15:20D.Beavis ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBeampipe - Safety (BNL)
15:50HFT-FGT integration issues ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJ.Bessuille
16:20CD-1 response and Software plans ( 00:40 ) 4 filesS.Margetis
17:00Lc update - thin vs thick ( 00:20 ) 3 filesJan Kapitan

Production Status

Speaker : L. Didenko ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:00, Duration : 00:05

Run 2009 pp 200GeV data production

st_mtd stream data

Graphics Issues

Speaker : V. Fine ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:45, Duration : 00:10

The installation of the Coin3D package on RCF nodes made the simple interface to visualize the StEvent / StMuEvent primitivies in 3D against of the STAR detector geometry avialable STAR-wide.

Safe Handling of Condor Termination

Speaker : V. Fine ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:40, Duration : 00:05
There are many circumstances when the application flow can be interrupted by some “external” reasons and/or “internal” errors

Embedding: Defining a re-evaluation of efficiency resolution

Speaker : Y. Fisyak, L. Ruan ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:30, Duration : 00:10

Embedding: Selecting Vertices

Speaker : H. Masui ( LBNL )


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

Embedding: Pi0 Dalitz decays

Speaker : V. Perevoztchikov ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:05, Duration : 00:05

Software and Computing phone meeting

2010-03-03 12:00
2010-03-03 13:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
1-189, EVO, at 17:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
TimeTalkPresenter
12:00Production Status ( 00:05 ) 0 filesL. Didenko (BNL)
12:05Embedding: Pi0 Dalitz decays ( 00:05 ) 0 filesV. Perevoztchikov (BNL)
12:10Embedding: Selecting Vertices ( 00:20 ) 1 fileH. Masui (LBNL)
12:30Embedding: Defining a re-evaluation of efficiency resolution ( 00:10 ) 0 filesY. Fisyak, L. Ruan (BNL)
12:40Safe Handling of Condor Termination ( 00:05 ) 1 fileV. Fine (BNL)
12:45Graphics Issues ( 00:10 ) 1 fileV. Fine (BNL)
12:55AOB ( 00:05 ) 0 files

Assessing the BHT3 ~coincidence trigger

How it works:

2010 upsilon presentations

write-up of vernier scan methods as of APS

 I've attached a pdf describing how the vernier scan was performed for the numbers shown at APS.  

W Trigger Efficiency Study

W Trigger Efficiency Study

There are 3 outstanding issues for the trigger efficiency:

Trento Abstract

FMS simulation (cont.)

Here are some diagonostic checks for the FMS simulation. The following is for small cells only.

STAR Management Meeting

2010-03-04 11:00
2010-03-04 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 4 March 2010
BNL, 50-I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

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

           Phone Bridge: +1 626 395 2112 (CA) / +1 631 344 6100 (NY) // ID: 39499 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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I. Agenda:

1) Run10 status - Bill

2) Coll. Mtg Preparation - Jamie

3) Upgrades - Flemming

4) TBD

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

            0) Attendency

 

III. Note:

► RHIC Planning Meeting Website

Charge for New Decadal Plan, Steve Vigdor, Dec. 17, 2009

► STAR NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair), April 2008

► STAR FMS Review: Sept. 1-2, BNL. P. Jacobs (chair). Review Report

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IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

APS April Meeting: Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC

STAR Collaboration Meeting: March 26 - 31, 2010, BNL. Chair: J. Dunlop

RHIC and AGS User's Annual Meeting: June 7-11, 2010, BNL

► STAR Analysis Meeting: June 15-18, 2010, UCLA. Chair: H. Huang

► RHIC PAC Meeting: June 21-23, 2010, BNL

► RHIC Science and Technology Review: June 28-30, 2010, BNL

Spin2010: Sept. 27 - Oct. 2, 2010, Juelich, Germany

DNP2010: Nov. 3-6, 2010, Santa Fe, NM

StMagUtilities update for PMB hits

 Below is a group of plots of the r-phi distortion corrections in a typical production file for hits from the inner sector of sectors 3 and 9, as a function of z.

Making a Poor Man's BHT3 Coincidence trigger

To try to understand why the shape of the vernier scan data differs between the ZDC and BBC and the BHT3 triggers, I decided to make a rough sort of BHT3 coincidence trigger.

Moriond QCD 2010

Abstract, Talk, and Proceedings for Moriond 2010.  My talk was Tuesday 3/16/2010, and proceedings are due 5/15/10.  Please select the most recent version

What's left to be done before a W/Z Cross Section Paper

This drupal page outlines a number of things that need to be done or decided on before we publish the W/Z cross sections.