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Hi Zach and Mathias,
can you post the slides somewehre on drupal (your blog?) so I can link 
them to the minutes.

I have Yuri's link on drupal already.

-F


On 2024-07-18 12:53, Richard Witt wrote:
> Present: Alexei, Gene, Jim, Yuri, Zachary, Tommy, Flemming, Mathias,
> Prashanth, and myself
>
> == Hardware
>  — thunderstorm yesterday, almost 3 mbar pressure spike
>  — gas system behaved very well
>
> == Electronics
>  — some power problems to RDOs as usual
>  — tried to fix some yesterday, other are out for the run
>  — overall, the number out at any given time is more or less stable
>  — more TPX problems this year than last
>  — seems most concern is about the power system
>
> == Software
>  — Run 22 SC
>  — starting pass 3
>  — about 247 fills, but calibration only works for about 235
>  — trying to use calibration from nearby fills for the ones that
> don’t work
>
>  — Starting production with TFG24c
>  — some problem with long jobs (> 3 days on a file)
>  — trying to increase statistics to 100 million events
>  — K0 width looks better in TFG vs most recent production
>  — may need one or two more weeks depending on speed of processing
>
>  — Early QA from production with new alignment (3.2 GeV FXT)
>  — DCAX and DCY look good
>  — double peak structure due to broken tracks is gone
>  — comparison with embedding also looks very good for low rapidity
> (not crossing CM)
>  — some difference for higher eta with CM crossing tracks, but only
> in DCAY
>  — nHits distributions also look good between test production and
> embedding
>  — maybe some systematics above eta~2
>  — perhaps some relation to revised formulation of TPC hit errors in
> TFG test production?
>  — PV distribution also shows some differences between test
> production and P24ia
>  — can look at mean eta vs PVZ between test and P24ia
>
> == AOB
>  — Nothing else new reported this week.
>
> Best Regards,
>   Richard
>
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