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Collaboration review : comments from Institute of Particle Physics

Comments from the Institute of Particle Physics

Collaboration review : comments from JINR

Comments from the JINR group

Collaboration review : comments from BNL

Comments from the BNL group Comments_to_the_paper_-_HBT.pdf

Shift sign-up, transition toward the extension

Here is a snapshot of the week before and during the extension due date for the 2010 shift sign-up:

Abstract for DIS2010

W Charge Separated Jacobian Peaks for APS 2010, STAR Run 9 Preliminary

Figure approved for APS 2010.  EPS and PNG versions attached below as well as hist.root files and plotting macro in a tarball.

pp2pp Meeting

2010-02-12 14:00
2010-02-12 15:00
America/New York
Friday, 12 February 2010
1-189, at 19:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00
1. Alignment update - ODU Stephen, Donika
 
2. ITEP analysis update - Igor
 
3. Particle production in DPE in run 9 - Yury
 

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TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Transport update ( 00:20 ) 1 fileTodd Satogata (BNL)
14:30Central Production ( 00:20 ) 1 fileYuri Gorbunov
15:00Update and Pedestal cuts ( 00:20 ) 1 fileKin Yip

AL for Ws for APS2010, approved by spin PWG

Figure approved for APS2010 (EPS in attachment B)

KFparticle

  • comparison TCFIT with KFparticle : here

W Production Cross Section for APS 2010, STAR Run 9 Preliminary Plot

Figure approved for APS 2010.  EPS and PNG versions attached below.

HOWTO: Generate geometry material differential plots using StarBASE

This blog entry shows how to run the starbase application to generate plots showing the changes in material between two detector geometries.

ROOT and PyROOT tips and tricks

The following snippet of code will add $ROOTSYS/lib to the path which python searches to load in modules.

STAR at Computing Cloud

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Comparison of 2005 and 2006 dijet cross section evaluations

Matt and Tai sent me values for the di-jet cross sections from 2005 and 2006 data (restricted to 2005 ~acceptance), and from theory.  A few quick-and-dirty comparison figures are attached.

STAR Management Meeting

2010-02-11 11:00
2010-02-11 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 11 February 2010
BNL, 50-I-189, at 16:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

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   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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I. Agenda:

1) Run10 status  - Bill

2) More 200GeV AuAu MB data ? - Jamie

3) Science pape cooresponding author - Nu

4) FHC - Flemming

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II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

            0) Attendency

 

III. Note:

► RHIC Planning Meeting Website

Charge for New Decadal Plan, Steve Vigdor, Dec. 17, 2009

► STAR NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair), April 2008

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

*--===================================================================--*

IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

APS April Meeting: Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC

► STAR Collaboration Meeting: March 26 - 31, 2010, BNL. Chair: J. Dunlop

RHIC and AGS User's Annual Meeting: June 7-11, 2010, BNL

► RHIC PAC Meeting: June 21-23, 2010, BNL

► RHIC Science and Technology Review: June 28-30, 2010, BNL

Spin2010: Sept. 27 - Oct. 2, 2010, Juelich, Germany

DNP2010: Nov. 3-6, 2010, Santa Fe, NM

Progress

The following changes are madeto fix the histogram problem
1> geantBranch -> geant

2010-02-09

Meeting 2 February 2010

 

Meeting was attended by Alice B, Mike B and Ilya S.  We discussed the current status of the filter.  A brief summary of action items:

vpdSimMaker

Energy deposition distributions, after the cut 20%*PeakEnergy employed.

can not get plots

cvs co StRoot/StBTofSimMaker
cvs co StRoot/StBFChain
cons

BSMD Calibration Update 2/9

Our stats have been expanded to include the whole pp500 dataset (thanks Matt), so the next step is to try to fit the ADC distribution in each momentum slice.  At Joe's suggestion I gave up try