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Update on A_N analysis

Update from TURTLE

Speaker : Phil Pile ( BNL )


Talk time : 09:20, Duration : 00:30

Intorduction

Speaker : Wlodek Guryn ( BNL )


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:20

UPC parallel session

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00J/Psi and Phi analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 fileJanet Seger
09:45Rho analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 fileR. Debbe
11:00Embedding/Tracking ( 00:20 ) 1 fileR. Debbe

UPC parallel session

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Intorduction ( 00:20 ) 0 filesWlodek Guryn (BNL)
09:20Update from TURTLE ( 00:30 ) 1 filePhil Pile (BNL)
09:50Update on A_N analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 fileKin Yip (BNL)
10:20Path Forward ( 00:20 ) 2 filesWlodek + All (BNL)
10:40Paper ( 00:20 ) 0 filesJH (BNL)

BES studies

Speaker : Duncan Prindle


Talk time : 08:30, Duration : 00:20

STAR Management Meeting

2011-09-08 11:00
2011-09-08 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 8 September 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News- Spokesperson's meeting: Nu

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) PAC/Spin discussion: Nu

               4) Software review - Jerome/Gene

               5) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Nu, Jamie, Bedanga, Scott, Xin, Gene.

  1) News - Nu: Run12:  Cool down starts January 2nd, 2012. Normal CR condition allows a 22-week run. Trigger Board will start work

      around late October 2011.

  2) Run11 data processing - Gene: 19.6 GeV AuAu data done. 27 GeV AuAu will starts next week, and will last for about two weeks. This

      will be followed by the 500 GeV pp data. // Slow control problem. Data corruption issues.

 3) No message about the splitting responsibilities. Will revisit the issue around mid-November.

 4) Software review: Will send in suggestions and comments by next Monday, Sept. 12th.

 5) Website update -Jamie: HF - Gang // Spin - Renee // BulkCorr - Shusu // JetCorr - Saskia // LFS - Frank // Web Master: H.W. Ke. The activities will start immediately.

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► SQM2011, Cracow, September 18 - 24, 2011.

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-09-15 11:00
2011-09-15 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 15 September 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News- (A) HFT: Flemming;  (b) Authorship: Nu

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) Software review - Jerome/Gene

               4) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Flemming, Bill, Bedanga, Scott, Xin, Jerome, Jamie, Huan, Nu

  1) HFT - KPP in beam: Flemming

  2) Authorship:

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► SQM2011, Cracow, September 18 - 24, 2011.

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-09-22 11:00
2011-09-22 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 22 September 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News from WHA: Bill

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) FGT status:  Flemming / Bernd

               4) New HF PWG coconvener selection: Jamie

               5) TBD

   

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency:

 

 Note on the action items since last two meetings:

 - Trigger Board Chair:  Zhangbu has kindly agreed to do ti for Run12

 - S&C review committee chair: Hal will give us an answer by this Friday, Sept. 23.

 - Authorship vs. SHift responsibilities: Brief summary

    Meeting on Tuesday: Gary, Nu, Jamie, Bedanga, Jerome, Flemming Gene   

                        -       Gary will send initial message to the institute council Rep. and requests to remove n names from the institute. The number n is defined by the Jerome-algorithm.

                        -        If nothing no response from the Council rep after m weeks, (m is defined in Gary’s first message), we will remove the n names from the institute authorship list in a ‘random’ manner.

                        -       Gary will forward his message to Nu

                        -       Gary will seek the Council vote on the motion.

 

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► SQM2011, Cracow, September 18 - 24, 2011.

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-09-29 11:00
2011-09-29 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 29 September 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News from WHA: Bill

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) S&C Review issue - Nu

               4) 'Fix Target' test run in Run12 ? - Nu

               5) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Huan,Scott, Huan, Nu

 1) Bill: lots of garbage of cables since 1998  // FGT ussue? need a schedule from Bernd.Ideal Schedule from Dana, Oct.27th. SHould be Oct. 12. Flemmign will getthe info.

 2) Data procesessing: BES done. On going 500 GeV data set// AuAu calib. on going.

3) S&C review: Nu contact Jerome.

4) 'fix target' run in Run12: no cleara bout the target related interactions // Jamie:it is late; // Nu send a message.

5) Slow contral:person in charge. Bill will send a message.

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-10-06 11:00
2011-10-06 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 6 October 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News from WHA: Bill, Flemming

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) S&C Review issue - Nu

               4) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency:

 1)

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-10-13 11:00
2011-10-13 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 13 October 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News from WHA: Bill, Flemming

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Jamie, Bill, Flemming, Jerome, Xin, Huan, Scott, Nu

 1) Bill: New schedule, Cool-down delays to Jan. 17th. (two weeks delay). // West cone shipped first // Do not contact the other one just yet. Next Monday more detailed info will be back to us.

 2) Jerome: Data processing: production pp500 done by Xmas // AuAu 200GeV: TPC Cali done; TOF Cali started, 1-2 weeks; // production will start in  about 2 weeks.

3) Tracking review committee: will be fixed by Olga, Xin and Jerome.

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-10-20 11:00
2011-10-20 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 20 October 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 4064 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News from WHA: Bill, Flemming

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data: Jerome/Gene

               3) Analysis/Collaboration meeting: Nu

                  [Regional Meetings:  January 9-10, 2012, VECC // July 23-25, 2012, Weihai, Shandong University]

                  [Analysis Meeting: Feb. 25-March 4, Rice]

                  [Collaboration Meetings: ]

               4) 5 GeV cm or fix-taget Au+Au collisions: Nu

               5) Author List: Nu

               6) TBA

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Bill, Jerome, Flemming, Jamie, Bedanga, Scott, Xin, Nu

 1) RHIC Cool down will be postponed till January 17, 2012.

 2) Data propossing: 500 GeV pp in good progress. // 200 GeV AuAu FRF Cali in progress, will be followed by the FF Calib.

     Experiencing differene in dE/dx, more studying /discussions on going.

     Shift sign-up for Run12: Nu call Gary. Jerome side is ready.

     Period Coordinators for Run12: Nu and Renee

 3) Future Meetings:  Analysis meeting will be at BNL in mid-April // Collaboration meeting will be in BNL, in the week of Aug. 5th.

 4) Fix-target AuAu collisions at RHIC: Priority is given on current BES results and perhaps a new 15 GeV AuAu collisions. If only needs

     a short time and beams are available, may have a test on 5 GeV collider mode collisions. Bedanga prepares a message.

 5) Authorship: opt-out one-by-pne is prefered. Opt-in required approval by the management, not encouraged. Jerome prepares

    a summary.

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-09-01 11:00
2011-09-01 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 1 September 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data

               3) Upgrade activities - Huan / Flemming

               4) Authorship - Jerome

               5) Readiness for SQM - Xin

               6) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Huan, Nu, Scott, Xin, Jerome, Jamie, Bedanga, 

  1) Data processing: Jerome:  27 GeV data, Calibration: dedx almost; ToF ; FTPC done; Production start mid-next week. //

      500 GeV pp will be the next, in about two weeks //  200 GeV AuAu: Cali is ongoing //

  2) Upgrade: Flemming/Huan: more coordiantion on upgrade efforts.  // new calorimeter need help on simulations, S&C team //

      phone meeting on upgrade projects, including eSTAR efforts, more people; Theory,CGC, money plots in the forward rapidity

       region. A meeting at UCLA, Dec. 13, 14 // Simulation: virtural SiM and tracking review in mid-Nov. // Jan is working FGT

       geometry including the new beam pipe. // 

 3) Authorship in STAR: Nu contact Gary and send an announcement to the collaboration after council approvl.

 4) sQM: 19 talks from STAR. Needs more embedding efforts: QA,

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► SQM2011, Cracow, September 18 - 24, 2011.

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

STAR Management Meeting

2011-08-25 11:00
2011-08-25 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 25 August 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 01:00

STAR Management Meeting

2011-08-18 11:00
2011-08-18 12:00
America/New York
Thursday, 18 August 2011
BNL, 50-I-189, 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: 10 6515 // Password: 0952

              Time:  11 - 12 noon EDT

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

  I.  Agenda:

               1) News - All

               2) Calibration/Production Run 11 data  - Jerome/Gene

               3) STAR Tracker Review - Jerome/Xin/Nu

               4) STAR website - Nu

               5) TBD

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

 II. Brief Summary and/or Action Items:

  0) Attendency: Flemming, Bill, Jerome, Huan, Scott, Xin, Nu, Gene

  1) News:  a) HFT - Flemming: ESSAC Sept.22, 2011. DOE NP, BNL and Flemming (HFT team) are working on the final documents;

                 b) ALICE new policy on its membership and its implicaitons to STAR collaboration. More discussions later.

  2) Run11 data: a) TOF QA, 19.6GeV is ready for production (today), will be followed by 27 GeV AuAu data, within 4 weeks; b) pp 500 GeV for TOF 

      calibration;  c) few months away for 200 GeV AuAu data.

 3) STAR Tracking Review: a) review committee:  / b) Charges. Jerome and Xin will come with a draft. c) Timeline: Review around mid-Nov. 2011

 4) Website: Nu will work on it along with the posters at the WAH.

III. Note:

  ► Charges to eSTAR Task Force, co-Chairs: Ernst Sichtermann and Zhangbu XU

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

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

 IV. Future Meetings and Reviews:

  ► STAR Analysis Meeting, August 23-26, 2011, UC Davis

  ► SQM2011, Cracow, September 18 - 24, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission July 1, 2011.

  ► DNP, October 26-29, 2011, MSU.

  ► CPOD2011, Wuhan, November 7 - 11, 2011.

  ► STAR Collaboration Meeting, November 14 - 19, 2011, LBNL

A_N paper remaining issues

Speaker : JH


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

pp2pp blue beam optics study turtle compared to data - constraint on quad current error

Speaker : Phil ( BNL )


Talk time : 15:00, Duration : 00:30