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STAR upgrade meeting

2009-12-17 09:00
2009-12-17 18:30
Etc/GMT-5
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Brookhaven National Lab, ITD conference room, at 14:00 (GMT), duration : 09:30

 The meeting will focus on the newer proposed upgrades, presentations, observation from the review committees, and how this all fits into the broader picture of the future program

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Introduction to Meeting ( 00:10 ) 1 fileF.Videbaek (BNL)
09:10Muon Telescope Detector ( 00:20 ) 1 fileL.Ruan (BNL)
09:30Review committee report ( 00:10 ) 1 fileHuan Huang
09:40Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 files
10:10Break ( 00:20 ) 0 files
10:30HLT proposal ( 00:20 ) 1 fileAihong Tang
10:50HReview Report ( 00:15 ) 1 fileThorsten Kollegger
11:05Discussion ( 00:25 ) 0 files
11:30Glueball Search and Diffractive Physics with the STAR Detector at RHIC ( 00:20 ) 1 fileWlodek Guryn
11:50Review committee report ( 00:15 ) 1 fileErnst Sichterman
12:05Discussion ( 00:25 ) 0 files
12:30Lunch ( 01:00 ) 0 files
13:30Forward Hadron Calorimeter ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHank Crawford
13:50Review committee report ( 00:15 ) 1 fileDick Majka
14:05Discussion ( 00:25 ) 0 files
14:30Star future planning - Heavy Ion ( 00:20 ) 2 filesJamie Dunlop
14:50Star future planning - pp ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJim Sowinski
15:10Break ( 00:20 ) 0 files
15:30Convenor summary I: MTD and HLT ( 00:20 ) 1 fileGang Wang
15:50Discussion ( 01:10 ) 0 files

2009.12.08 Low EM timing study: 10KeV vs. 100KeV cut settings

Conclusions/dicsussion at the emc2 hypernew:
http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/get/emc2/3374.html

2009.12.07 Low EM study: LOW_EM option, 100KeV cuts, and DCUTE=100KeV

Conclusions/dicsussion at the emc2 hypernew
http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/get/emc2/3369.html

2009.12.01 BEMC 1x1, 2x1, 2x2, 3x3 clustering

Monte-Carlo setup:

STAR Management Meeting

2009-12-03 11:00
2009-12-03 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 3 December 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 16:00 (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: 39499 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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  Agenda:

1) Run10 preparation: Trigger status - Zhangbu

2) STAR Software issues and Physics production- Jerome

3) Spin task force: summary of the "RHIC Spin - The Next Decade" - Bernd

4) TBD

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               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency:

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report and The Plan.

   4) STAR FMS Review agenda, Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair). Review report

 

               Future Meetings and Reviews:

    1) STAR Analysis Meeting, Jan. 12-16, 2010, Department of Physics, UT Austin

    2) APS April meeting, Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC.

2009.11.23 New EEMC geometry (CVS v6.1): y2006 vs. y2009 STAR configurations

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.11.19 LOW_EM and EEMC time/event in starsim

Monte-Carlo setup:

RHIC pp2pp Optics Update

Speaker : Todd Satogata ( BNL )


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

RHIC pp2pp Optics Update

evaluation of TpcRS for W production

Speaker : Justin Stevens ( IUCF )


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

Pre-Embedding QA for W Analysis

2009.11.17 BEMC sampling fraction: energy dependence

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.11.16 Tests of EEMC geometry, version 6.1: lead vs. mixture

Monte-Carlo setup:

Opening remarks / Welcome

Speaker : Local Organizer


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:15

Opening / PID Plenary Session

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Opening remarks / Welcome ( 00:15 ) 0 filesLocal Organizer
09:15PID using TOF (30+5 Min) ( 00:35 ) 1 fileXiaoping Zhang
09:50Electromagnetic shower shape analysis for direct gamma/pi0 id and in-medium fragmentation function measurements (30+5 Min) ( 00:35 ) 1 fileAhmed Hamed
10:25Coffee break ( 00:20 ) 0 files
10:45W measurement and the identification of electrons (30+5 Min) ( 00:35 ) 1 fileJan Balewski
11:20Update on embedding (30+5 Min) ( 00:35 ) 2 filesAndrew Rose

STAR Analysis Meeting (Jan 2010)

2010-01-12 08:00
2010-01-16 17:34
Etc/GMT-4
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from Tuesday, 12 January 2010 to Saturday, 16 January 2010
UT Austin
Conference organizing committee information :

 

The chair of the organizing committee for the meeting is Prof. Jerry  Hoffmann (UT Austin).

The scientific program committee is chaired  by Prof. Christina Markert and the members are:  Elena Bruna (Yale),  Evan Finch (Yale), Mike Lisa (OSU), Christina Markert (UT Austin),  Bedanga Mohanty (VECC), Lanny Ray (UT Austin), Shusu Shi (LBNL/IOPP),  Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL), Jim Sowinski (IUCF), Gang Wang (UCLA).

 

Conference duration: 5 days

 STAR Analysis Meeting (Jan 12-16, 2010) at University of Texas, Austin

STAR Management Meeting

2009-11-19 11:00
2009-11-19 12:00
Etc/GMT-7
Thursday, 19 November 2009
BNL, 50-Orange Room, at 16:00 (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: 39499 // Password: 0952

   Time:  11 AM - 12 PM EDT

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

  Agenda:

1) Run10 preparation - Bill

2) Physics program for 62.4 GeV Au+Au collisions (4 weeks) - Nu

3) New convener for Spectra PWG  - Nu

4) Anti-nucleus trigger for run10 - All

5) TBD

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

               Brief Summary:

  0) Attendency:

  Notes:

   1) STAR TPC Review (key= star2009),  June 4,5, BNL. Ron Settler (chair). Review report.

   2) NPE Committee, H. Huang (chair) 

   3) STAR TOF Close Out Review, Aug. 10-11. Review report and The Plan.

   4) STAR FMS Review agenda, Sept. 1-2, BNL, P. Jacobs (chair). Review report

 

               Future Meetings and Reviews:

    1) STAR Analysis Meeting, Jan. 11-15, 2010, UT Austin

    2) APS April meeting, Feb. 13-17, 2010, Washongton DC.

2009.11.11 Tests of EEMC geometry, version 6.1

Monte-Carlo setup:

2009.11.10 BEMC sampling fraction and clustering

Monte-Carlo setup:

Physics of HFT in STAR

Speaker : N. Xu


Talk time : 09:30, Duration : 00:45

Run 10 preparation meetings #3

2009-10-30 15:00
2009-10-30 17:00
Etc/GMT-5
Friday, 30 October 2009
1-189, EVO, at 19:00 (GMT), duration : 02:00
TimeTalkPresenter
15:00General introduction ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJerome Lauret (BNL)
15:20Storage and network project ( 00:20 ) 3 filesWayne Betts (BNL)

2009.11.06 new EEMC geometry: Pure lead and new SMD layers

Monte-Carlo setup: