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[Richard Witt <witt AT usna.edu>]

Hi Frank,

  Thanks for your rapid response to this issue in the minutes!  Yuri 
would have to provide the details of his pending request(s), but I am 
happy to serve as an additional approver.  Please let me know what's 
required to get that done.

Cheers,
  Richard

On 7/13/23 13:03, Frank Geurts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please let me know what particular PRs are taking long. At this time, I see 
> only one listed that is pending one reviewer.
>
> My understanding is that additional reviewers can always be added, so for 
> TPC-related work it would be fine to include Richard.
>
> -Frank
>
>
>
>
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> > On Jul 13, 2023, at 11:55 AM, Richard Witt via Star-tpc-l 
> > <star-tpc-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Present: Alexei, Flemming, Tommy, Yuri, Gene, and myself
> >
> > == Hardware
> > — email came from power supply company, they received PO
> > — will start to build spare PS (~1 month)
> > — new 6-pack of methane
> > — DV seems to be coming back to normal
> > — have about 40 days of gas
> > — trying to understand why some 6-packs are “bad” (affect DV) and others are 
> > okay
> > — Alexei trying to compare with reference gas from a small bottle he has
> > — has located a gas chromatography group at the lab and will ask about doing 
> > comparison work
> >
> >
> > == Electronics
> > — system is behaving well with low intensity beams
> > — full system has been included for about 2 weeks
> > — with saturated minbias ZDC rate is ~13 kHz
> > — can record at ~4.2 kHz in those conditions
> >
> > == Software
> > — Gene wants to look for distortions due to increase in gated grid rate
> > — SC & GL for d+Au 200 is a high priority for working groups
> > — Babu is currently very busy with thesis work but can likely wrap-up soon
> > — other priority is AuAu 17.3 GeV calibrations
> > — Gene started on it yesterday, through one iteration so far
> > — hope is to finish in next few days
> > — will then do calibration production for dE/dx and bToF
> > — Run 22 pp500 is the other activity for calibrations
> > — Richard from Temple is getting started there
> > — Flemming mention the beam line into STAR has moved by a couple millimeters 
> > in past few days
> > — Gene will look at impacts from that
> > — Irakli is continuing alignment work
> > — results using DAQ file and event files are different
> > — DAQ files are not ordered by event number but event files are
> > — Yuri does not find significant differences when reading event files in same 
> > order as events were collected (order in DAQ file)
> > — Tommy estimated SC from files
> > — also compared PV reconstruction from east and west individually, there is a 
> > difference
> > — plots are attached to previous TPC meeting agenda
> > — Yuri believes the result is an overestimated efficiency
> > — may be a reproduction of 2019 and 2020 FXT, Gene may try to reproduce the 
> > calibration to remove the problem
> > — problem will still exist in P21ib
> > — Gene will look into comparing with work previously done by Irakli
> > — if there is a difference we may need to include the correction for the 
> > reproduction
> > — Yuri still looking into combined PID
> >
> >
> > == AOB
> > — Pull requests from Yuri and others are taking extremely long to be approved 
> > due to requiring two independent approvers
> > — TPC group will request that either Richard W. be added as an approver for 
> > pull requests on TPC software, or the requirement be reduced to one approver
> > — Richard will follow-up with Frank on this
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >    Richard
> >
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