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[Sphenix-l] minutes from 10th fortnightly general meeting

From: David Morrison <dave AT bnl.gov>
To: sphenix-l AT lists.bnl.gov
Subject: [Sphenix-l] minutes from 10th fortnightly general meeting
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:40:43 -0400

Dear Collaborators,

My apologies, I should have sent these minutes out long ago. Entirely my fault. Thanks to Mike McCumber for taking notes!

Regards,

Dave

10th sPHENIX General Meeting
August 5th 2016

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sPHENIX News - DM & GR

Focus today on news items & tracking review
draft response from Berndt on baseline received

discussion of how Berndt's response impacts the scope of the tracking review

Cold QCD TWG formation ongoing, candidate conveners being contacted

dates for the December Collaboration meeting doodle poll will close on Monday (now set for 12/-15-17)

form available for authorship on test beam paper self-declare if you believe you should be on the paper

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sPHENIX Project News - EO

review of news items, dates for next 5 months

summary of mini-reviews completed thus far on MAPS and TPC

description of upcoming tracking reviews

TPC mechanics installation plan update
EMCal high eta test beam plans continuing

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Tracking status and plans for tracker review - AF, TH, MM

summary from Tony
baseline for review:
3 layers of MAPS + intermediate layer + TPC

initial ladder based results with MAPS ladders
review will still focus on simplified geometries

discussion of track finding efficiency at large momentum

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Jet Structure Topical Group plans for tracker review - DP, RR

review of CMS Island calorimeter clustering algorithm

JN: asks which calorimeters are targeted?
Island and PHENIX codes are targeting the EMCAL
JN: HCAL could use a clustering algorithm for particle flow

review of particle flow understanding with sPHENIX

review of plans going into the tracking review
focus on fake rate for FF measurements

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HF topical group plans for tracker review - JH, MM

Mike summarizes MAPS detector course into
tracking review, project planning and pileup calculations top priorites
New LANL support funds for D. Lee to help on project planning for reviews

HF topical group report:
(1) new manpower identified to relieve DP on porting Track Counting Method to G4
(2) Sanghoon making good progress on secondary vertexing algo

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Upsilon topical group plans for tracker review - MR, AF

short update, easily cycling on background estimates for different designs
focus on generalized tracking development

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TPC electronics mini-workfest report - TH

Effort to design and evaluate the readout of the TPC detector
description of digitization chain
impact of gas choice on data volume

David Morrison Brookhaven National Laboratory phone: 631-344-5840
Physics Department, Bldg 510 C email: dave AT bnl.gov
Upton, NY 11973-5000

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