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[Richard Witt <witt AT usna.edu>]

Present: Alexei, Jim, Gene, Emmy, and myself

== Hardware

— working on east laser

— poletip to be closed about 20th of Feb.

— gas system has enough methane and argon for run

== Electronics

— Tonko mentioned some problem with sector 24

— two side-by-side RDOs, one was less efficient at reconstructing hits

— no obvious correlations, unclear why one RDO is less efficient

— still under investigations

— Flemming working with Isaac Mooney to produce some automated QA for TPC

— Gene helped setup in FastOffline

— was a great help last year, much less work for Flemming during run

== Software

— Gene working on dE/dx production for Run22 pp500

— some discussion of twist (ExB) correction 

— Emmy’s work on mass differences

— see slides sent to list

— looking specifically at vertical track mass difference

— some definite improvement after sector alignment work

— some irregularities in m^2 vs pt in edge plots

== AOB

— Nothing additional reported this week.

Best Regards,

  Richard

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 Richard Witt, Professor of Physics     Phone (USNA): 410-293-6675
    United States Naval Academy         Email: witt AT usna.edu
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