The STAR experiment

Conference Phone Number: 510 486 7333

   Time:  10- 11 am EDT

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  Agenda:

     1) FY07 / FY08 data production and QA - Bedanaga

    2) QM09 physics topics - All

    3) Analyss meeting agena - Bedanga

    4) AOB

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    Brief Summary:

    1) dAu production 28M done (46 M total). See http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/year-7-8-production-updates for status.

    2) Need specific info on the rquested 1M pp events. Bedanga will contact Spin PWG.

    3) QA:  (a) dAu: from Spectra PWG: http://pdsfweb01.nersc.gov/~cjena/Aug21st_Spectmeet.ppt

               (b) dAu: from HF PWG: http://pdsfweb01.nersc.gov/~kikola/documents/QA_dAu_08.ppt

               (c) AuAu (FY07) from Hipt PWG: http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/starsoft/7491/3/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1.html

               (d) E-by-E  and strangeness PWG has started QA for FY07.

      4) Meeting of QA, includ all conveners, update QA plots. The same is for embedding. Starts during the Friday and Analysis meeting.

      5) QM09 physics topics: (i) high pt J/psi (spectra);

                    (ii) CGC info from FMS (continue discusson for details);

                    (iii) Upsilon from dAu (HF);

                    (iv) non-photonic electrons (spectra);

                    (v) jet-reconstruction (hipT)

      6) Analysis Agenda and Collaboration meeting data (March xxx, 2009)

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    News and Other Meetings:

    1) The paper on "Systematic Measurements of Identified Particle Spectra in $pp$, d+Au and Au+Au Collisions from STAR " has been submitted to PRC. The arXiv is 0808.2041.

Since the paper contains the new corrected results for the charged pion data from 130 GeV Au+Au collisions, we have send a withdraw note to the unpublished paper arXiv: http://arXiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0311017. The comment reads: "Please note that the charged pion results from Au+Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}=130 GeV at RHIC presented in this manuscript are superseded by the new results in a more comprehensive analysis. The paper reference is arXiv:0808.2041"

    2) Friday, Aug. 29th, we will have an meeting discuss future upgrade issues in STAR

         Meeting room:  50, I-189

         Meeting time: 10 am - 12 noon

    3) Friday, Aug. 29th, we will have an meeting discuss STAR computing plan and issues with PDSF.

         Meeting room:  50, small Orange room

         Meeting time: 13.30 - 14:30 pm