STAR Protected

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STAR Management Meeting

2009-06-04 11:00
2009-06-04 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 4 June 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 15:00 (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: 923385 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11am - 12noon EDT

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  Agenda:

    1)    Run9 Status: Bill / Bernd
    2)    FMS issues

    3)   pp2pp commissioning

 

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               Brief Summary:

  1) Attending: Bill, Jerome, Jamie, Olga, Nu, Flemming

  2) FMS: Changes are needed in the leadership. Further discussions with Tom and Elk. Tom also suggested a review on FMS. He even suggested to start the review immediately. 

  3) pp2pp: In principle it is ready. Working on sync. Si with DAQ.

  Notes:

   1) Bill's Users' meeting talk (ppt file)

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

   3) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair)

  Meetings:

    1) CPOD2009: June 8-12, 2009, BNL

    2) BNL PAC: June 15-16, 2009, BNL ( BUR10-11 files: PHENIX and STAR )

    3) STAR Regional Meeting: June 29-30, 2009, Dubna, Russia

    4) STAR Analysis Meeting, July 7-11, 2009, MIT, Boston

    5) BNL Science and Technology Review, July 22-24, BNL

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

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

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

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

Comments on Neutral Pion Production in Au+Au Collisions

Run QA notes

Doing run QA for fills 10490 and 10494, days 95 and 96.  I added onto Hal's spreadsheet, as attached.

Revisiting Eta Library

0)In first attempt, try to replicate Will's changes.  Change so that takes neighboring sectors in addition to photons in the same sector.  I get no eta peak.

--In MixMaker:

What's next ?

Speaker : ALL (moderated by Helen Caines) ( STAR )


Talk time : 17:45, Duration : 00:30

Theoretical interpretations of the ridge

Speaker : Raju Venugopalan ( BNL )


Talk time : 16:45, Duration : 01:00

Is the ridge connected to hard scattering?

Speaker : Fuqiang Wang ( Purdue )


Talk time : 16:00, Duration : 00:45

Coffee Break

What we know experimentally about the low pt ridge so far and are the two ridges connected

Speaker : Lanny Ray ( UTA )


Talk time : 14:45, Duration : 00:45

What we know experimentally about the high pt ridge so far

Speaker : Joern Putschke ( Yale )


Talk time : 14:00, Duration : 00:45

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TPC upgrade talk

 The next version of my talk for the Thursday TPC review. 

Please send comment

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STAR Management Meeting

2009-05-28 11:00
2009-05-28 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 28 May 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 15:00 (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: 923374 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11am - 12noon EDT

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  Agenda:

    1)    Run9 Status: Bill / Bernd
   

  News: STAR BUR Run10-11 (pdf file, ~6.4MB)

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               Brief Summary:

                1) Attending:

                2)

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review Committee, Ron Settler (chair), review due June 4,5.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

 

 Upcoming Meetings:

    1) CPOD2009: June 8-12, 2009, BNL

    2) BNL PAC: June 15-16, 2009, BNL

    3) STAR Regional Meeting: June 29-30, 2009, Dubna, Russia

    4) STAR Analysis Meeting, July 7-11, 2009, MIT, Boston

    5) BNL Science and Technology Review, July 22-24, BNL

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

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

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

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

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Luminosity Monitoring and Asymmetries from 500 GeV running

Introduction

FMS Small Cells HV

There are two different types of high voltage bases used for FMS small cells, one designed at Penn State and another that came from Yale.