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

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   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) Run10 Plan from S. Vigdor: doc, pdf files.

Our response:

Dear Steve,

Thank you for the draft run10 plan. We discussed your plan today, and would like to point out that it differs substantially from the PAC
recommendation. I think if it is indeed realized, we will not be able to complete the goals of RHIC beam energy scan program in a timelyfashion.  At some energies, we are not scheduled to take data at all in Run 10 or 11. I am afraid that if your plan is implemented we will fail to demonstrate our seriousness about the BES to our collaborators, for many of whom this BES has renewed excitement about RHIC program.

In the attached table, we lay out an alternative plan, as STAR’s response to your proposal, for both 25- and 30-cryo week scenarios.
We believe that this alternative is more in keeping with the priorities laid out in the PAC recommendations.  I would like to
emphasize that a week or so test with 7.7 GeV Au+Au collisions is crucial for the BES program. There are a number of questions about
machine performance, such as rates and collimation, and experimental performance, such as triggering, backgrounds, and vertex spot size, for
which this test is vital.  This test must be done in order to plan for  the long 7.7 GeV run in Run 11.

 I hope that we will have a chance to discuss further before you make a final decision on this important run.

STAR suggested run plan TABLE. (pdf file)

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  0) Attendency:

  Notes:

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

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

  Future Meetings:

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

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

    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