STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-29 12:00
2013-03-29 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 29 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-22 12:00
2013-03-22 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status: Bill
               2) Run14 BUR committee and Talk Committee: Nu
               3) 15GeV Au+Au run:
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance:

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 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

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 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► BNL PAC, BNL, June 11 - 12, 2013
                ► STAR regional meeting, CTU, Prague, June 13-14, 2013
                ► STAR
Analysis Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafyeti, July 16 -19, 2013
      
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013. Abstract deadline: April 15, 2013.
               
► STAR regional meeting, USTC, Hefei, Sept. 11 - 13, 2013
                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, LBNL, Berkeley, October 14 - 19, 2013
              

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-15 12:00
2013-03-15 13:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-08 11:00
2013-03-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 EDT
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) Run status
               2) Run14 BUR committee: Nu
               3) STAR Talk Committee:
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Huan, Bedanga, Bill, Jerome, Gene, Jamie, Scott, Nu, Flemming
              2) Run status - Bill: trigger problem, trigger experts are working on the problem. / FMS has not started yet. Need timing up. / FGT: in progress,
                  HV scans, gain scan / CAD will declare Physics within 12 hrs. / polarization: 35 yellow:50 blue / need di-jet trigger / L2 monitor needs effort
              3) BUR14 discussion: 22-cryo-week / committee member: Nu (chair), Xin, Jamie, Flemming, Elke*, Pibero*, Wei* (* tbd)
              4) STAR Talk Committee: need new members 3-5, especially the chair / arxiv list of talks / upload talks before approval!

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 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

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 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.       
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-03-01 11:00
2013-03-01 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 1 March 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-22 11:00
2013-02-22 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 22 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 ET
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) WAH
               2) HFT Review: Flemming
               3) Trainor issue: Nu
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance: Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Huan, Xin, Bedanga, Nu
              2) RUN13:  STAR is ready: in good shape. Cosmic ray data : one day good data set.
              3) HFT review (May 17, BNL): DOE demands now early completion. Successful review although the schedule is constrained.
                   IST: cooling system test / SSD: time is short, problematic, new engineer from lbl on board / Integration: research load 
                   resources, necessary(?) / costs: is fine. Contigency remains.
              4) TT issue: BNL lawyer contacted. Wait for action from the council and the management. Monitor the progress closely from BNL.
                  Wait for the Council to decision in few days.

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 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

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 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 24 - March 1, 2013.
                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.
                ► Strangeness in Quark Matter, Birmingham, United Kingdom, July 22 - 27, 2013

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STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-08 11:00
2013-02-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-15 11:00
2013-02-15 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-15 11:00
2013-02-15 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 15 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Weekly Meeting

2013-02-08 11:00
2013-02-08 12:00
America/New York
Friday, 8 February 2013
BNL, Buld 510, I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
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             Time:  12:00 - 13:00 ET
 

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I.  Agenda:

               1) News: (1) WAH
               2) Collaboration meeting: Jamie and Xin
               3) Resource Discussions for HFT, iTPC, and Forward Upgrade: Flemming, Zhangbu, Huang
               4) TBD

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             II. Brief Summary and action Items:

              1) Attandance:

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 III. Note:

  ► Tribble Committee Presentation, 1/28/2013
  ► RHIC WhitePaper: The Case for Continuing RHIC Operations 9/2/2012
  ► DNP HI WhitePaper: Hot and Dense QCD Matter
  ► RHIC Spin WhitePaper: The RHIC Spin Program
  ► EIC WhitePaper: Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier

  ► 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

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 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews

                ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, BNL, February 24 - March 1, 2013.
                ► APS Meeting, Denver, CO, April 13 - 16, 2013. Abstract deadline: January 11, 2013.       

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Repeat of Cut Review

This is basically a repeat of the most salient parts of the Feb. 1st "Review of Cuts" blog, given the fitting updates of the Feb. 5 "Another Updated Fit" blog.  These results were discussed in the PWG phone meeting today (Feb 7th, 2013), and this blog is the promised further details.  The conclusions of the discussions are that
  • The cross section is not very sensitive to these cuts
  • While the mass plots look nices, it appears the MC fits work comparably well for any cut choice
  • The high cost of cutting statistics is not sufficiencly offset by reductions in systematics, and thus no cuts will be changed.

PXL insertion and the PXL Bulkhead

Speaker : Howard Wieman


Talk time : 14:00, Duration : 00:20

AOB

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 12:55, Duration : 00:05
  • data03 cleanup will happen today - space will be reduced to a to a 4 months retention time ; please clean up anything you do not need ASAP

Geometry readiness for Run 13

Speaker : Jason Webb ( BNL )


Talk time : 12:35, Duration : 00:20

Y2013 tag is defined, with all of the new detectors and modifications to existing detectors:

  • Pixel detector for the HFT has been added (PixlGeo5.xml)

p+p 200 GeV dE/dx status

Speaker : Mike Skoby ( CEEM )


Talk time : 12:15, Duration : 00:20

Default PPV vs Modified PPV performance in 2012 pp500 Jet embedding

Speaker : Zilong Chang ( TAMU )


Talk time : 12:00, Duration : 00:15

The new PPV tune for p+p 500 GeV has been checked with an embedding study.
The page is here.

Software and Computing Meeting

2013-02-06 12:00
2013-02-06 13:00
America/New York
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
1-189, SRN, at 17:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
TimeTalkPresenter
12:00Default PPV vs Modified PPV performance in 2012 pp500 Jet embedding ( 00:15 ) 0 filesZilong Chang (TAMU)
12:15p+p 200 GeV dE/dx status ( 00:20 ) 1 fileMike Skoby (CEEM)
12:35Geometry readiness for Run 13 ( 00:20 ) 0 filesJason Webb (BNL)
12:55AOB ( 00:05 ) 0 filesAll (All)

FCS prototype update

Speaker : O. Tsai


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

Systematic uncertainties on J/psi production in Au+Au 39 and 62 GeV

 

Speaker : Wangmei Zha ( USTC )


Talk time : 14:00, Duration : 00:30

J/psi in p+p collisions at 500 GeV run 11 (EVO)

 

Speaker : Qian Yang ( USTC )


Talk time : 11:40, Duration : 00:30