sPHENIX tracking discussion

["Frawley, Anthony" <afrawley AT fsu.edu>]

Hi All,

We will have an sPHENIX tracking meeting on Friday October 21 at 9:00 am ET. The agenda page is:

https://indico.bnl.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2476

We will hear from Sook Hyun Lee about an update to the vertex treatment on the TPC Hough code.

It would be good also to have:

1) An update on the intermediate tracker geometry

2) A discussion about the feasibility of running the TPC so that we can get dE/dx information for particle ID. This is motivated by the likelihood that the LHC experiments will (by Run 3) be able to measure the separated c and b open heavy flavor down to zero pT. There is a developing consensus among heavy flavor experts that the open heavy flavor cross section in the same rapidity range is the best reference for quarkonia measurements, because it already has built in the (quite theoretically uncertain) shadowing and energy loss effects. It is something we should be considering in sPHENIX.

Cheers

Tony