Heavy Quark Physics in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions Workshop at UCLA

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We will organize a workshop on heavy quark physics in nucleus-nucleus collisions from January 22-24, 2009. The workshop will be hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uni

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Talk time : 00:42, Duration : 00:20

Workshop Schedule


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

Mechanical Issues????

Speaker : Eric Anderson????


Talk time : 00:32, Duration : 00:10

Electronics Workshop

Speaker : Christophe and Micheal


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

HT News

Speaker : Howard M.


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

L2jet Investigation: Hacked pedestal file investigation

At Jan's suggestion, I hacked the pedestal file that the database sees and manually set all the ped values to zero.

oolatex and tex4ht

Installing tex4ht under cygwin?

I came across the famous tex4ht, a highly configurable TeX/LateX to other format converter and tried to install itunder cygwin on my laptop.

STAR Management Meeting

2009-01-14 10:00
2009-01-14 11:00
Etc/GMT-7
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
BNL, 50-I-189, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

Conference Phone Number: 510 486 7333

   Time:  10 - 11 am EDT

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  Agenda:

    1)    Run9 readiness and issues - Bill
    2)    Embedding efforts - Bedanga
    3)    Full shifts in 2nd week (?) - Bill

    4)    Next step for HFT (i) Steve's comments

    5)   AoB
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    Brief Summary:

   1) Attending: Olga, Jerome, Helen, Bill, Zhangbu, Jamie, Nu

   2) Run9 readiness: No major problem / ToF firmware could progress faster / Collision hall lock-out expected Feb. 6th / STAR magnet power on Feb. 10th /

        TPC gas starts Feb. 17th /

   3) Embeeding: problem with SVT part. Sarah, and Stephen are working on it. Jonhassen is working on the SSD part.

   4) HFT: SSD should be merged into HFT as one project.

  Notes:

    1) CBM/RHIC meeting: March 9-12, 2009, GSI

    2) STAR Collaboration meeting: March 23-27, 2009, BNL

    3) STAR Regional meeting: May 6-9, 2009, Pusan, Korea

 

Some further evidence/explanation BSMD/BPRS high-energy "band" anomalies

In the course of working on BSMD/BPRS speed-up I have noticed why there are these unusual bands in the upper approximately half of the BSMD/BPRS spectra.

Mac tricks, histo in Excell

valgrind 

 I got valgrind on a macbook pro (oeit edition) using the following commands:

sudo port sync
sudo port install wget

AOB

Speaker : All


Talk time : 17:10, Duration : 00:20

Trigger data - summary from Akio

I've coded basic funcionality of offline trigger reader upto StEvent. Tests are waiting example daqfile & bfc-database issue.

QA overview with focus on PPlot online

Speaker : Gene Van Buren


Talk time : 16:50, Duration : 00:20

Online QA

  • Compiling and testing
    • Numerous compilation issues have been resolved (thanks mostly to Dave & Valeri).

New DAQ Reader status, overview of opened activities

Speaker : Valeri Fine ( BNL )


Talk time : 16:30, Duration : 00:20

Status:

  • RTS system had been deployed and is the standard component of the "dev" release
  • Tonko's group is keeping developing the new daqReader and the new correct

ESL readiness

Speaker : Levente Hajdu


Talk time : 16:20, Duration : 00:10

ShiftLog changes 2009:

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Online GW issues and internal login issues

Speaker : Wayne Betts


Talk time : 16:00, Duration : 00:20

Run 9, preparation meeting #7

2009-01-09 16:00
2009-01-09 17:30
Etc/GMT-5
Friday, 9 January 2009
1-189, HighSpeed conference bridge, at 21:00 (GMT), duration : 01:30
TimeTalkPresenter
16:00Online GW issues and internal login issues ( 00:20 ) 1 fileWayne Betts
16:20ESL readiness ( 00:10 ) 0 filesLevente Hajdu
16:30New DAQ Reader status, overview of opened activities ( 00:20 ) 0 filesValeri Fine (BNL)
16:50QA overview with focus on PPlot online ( 00:20 ) 0 filesGene Van Buren
17:10AOB ( 00:20 ) 0 filesAll

April 2009 APS Meeting Abstract

 .PDF file attached:

"Measurements of Quark Transversity through the Collins Mechanism in Mid-Rapidity Jets in p↑p Collisions at STAR"

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Topics included

Spin Physics PWG meeting

2009-01-08 12:00
2009-01-08 13:30
Etc/GMT-4
Thursday, 8 January 2009
phone 317-263-8800 1 077795# 1, at 17:00 (GMT), duration : 01:30

 Agenda may be found here