FMS Bit Shift QA

- Intermediate report for FMS group

- Other reports:

QM18 poster abstract

 D* analysis in run14

NICA Days 2017 v2

NICA Days 2017 v2

2017 APS Prairie Ta

25  minutes, plus 5 for questions

Random plots relevant to unfolding

 Errata:

  • Last plot in random_v2.pdf was not correct. Revised plots appear in part2.

FMS Pictures after 2 month UV curing

These are some pictures of the FMS after the 2-3 month long period where the UV system turned on after a power outage.

2017 APS Prairie meeting presentation

 

2017 APS Prairie meeting presentation

 

STAR (Forward-) Upgrade Meeting

2017-12-05 10:00
America/New York
Tuesday, 5 December 2017
, at 15:00 (GMT), duration : 00:00
==Agenda ==
 
- Oleg: update on forward HCAL and ECAL R&D
- Discussion on bnext steps based on Berndt's letter http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/Letter%20ALD%20to%20STAR.pdf
- Lijuan: update on visit to China for sTGC R&D (if back)

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PWGC Meeting

2017-12-15 11:30
2017-12-15 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 15 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00
Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 

Title: Global polarization of Lambda Hyperons in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
PWG: BulkCorr
PAs:  Takafumi Niida, Sergei Voloshin
Proposed target journal:  Phys Rev C

Presentation: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/taknn/Paper/pol200/1215_PWGC_pol200_paperproposal.pdf
Proposal webpage: 
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/taknn/Paper/pol200/HP/index.html
Paper draft:  
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/taknn/Paper/pol200/HP/draft.html
Analysis note: 
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/taknn/Paper/pol200/HP/ana.html

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Bill]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Takafumi]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-22 11:30
2017-12-22 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 22 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00

Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 
Title: Underlying Event Measurements in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC
PWG: JetCorr
PAs:  Helen Caines, Li Yi
Proposed target journal:  Phys Rev C
Webpage: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/
Presentation: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/paperproposalreview.pdf
Paper draft: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/underlying-event-measurements_v4.pdf
Analysis note: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/yili/ppUnderlying/doc/AnalysisNote_v3.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Kolja]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Li Yi
]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

2)
 PWGC Preview
"The PAs should have a COMPLETE set of systematics and candidate FINAL figures and tables with proposed "final paper" figure and table captions. Also, in addition to the abstract, they should have the proposed concluding paragraph."

3) LBNL Collaboration meeting

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-29 11:30
2017-12-29 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 29 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-08 11:30
2017-12-08 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 8 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00
Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 

Title: Measurements of Jpsi supperssion in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV through the dimuon channel at STAR
PWG: Heavy Flavor 
PAs:   Zubayer Ahammed, Daniel Brandenburg, Joey Butterworth, Feng-han Chang, Subhasish Chattopadhyay, Geary Eppley, Frank Geurts, Dong Han, Bingchu Huang, Te-Chuan Huang, Xinjie Huang, Alexander Jentsch, Eleanor Judd, Bill Llope, Cheng Li, Yuanjing Li, Yanfang Liu, Zhen Liu, Rongrong Ma, Christina Markert, Saskia Mioduszewski, Ted Nussbaum, Chris Perkins, Lanny Ray, Lijuan Ruan, Joachim Schambach, Yongjie Sun, Zebo Tang, David Tlusty, Takahito Todoroki, Yi Wang, Zhangbu Xu, Chi Yang, Qian Yang, Shuai Yang, Yi Yang, Wangmei Zha, Xianglei Zhu

Proposed target journal:  Phys Lets. B

Presentation 
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/SupportMaterial/PaperProposal.pdf
Proposal webpage http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/PaperProposal/
Analysis note: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/marr/paper/Run14_AuAu200_Jpsi/AnalysisNote/JpsiRaa_AN_v1.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Petr]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Rongrong]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

PWGC Meeting

2017-12-01 11:30
2017-12-01 13:30
America/New York
Friday, 1 December 2017
https://bluejeans.com/883580682/9067, at 16:30 (GMT), duration : 02:00
Full Meeting Info: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/geurts/bluejeans-connection-details-pwgc-and-editorial-board-meetings

1) PWGC preview 

Title: Centrality and transverse momentum dependence of D0-meson production at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV
PWG: Heavy Flavor 
PAs:  Xiaolong Chen, Xin Dong, Michael Lomnitz, Mustafa Mustafa, Hao Qiu, Zebo Tang, Guannan Xie, Zhenyu Ye, Yifei Zhang et al.
Proposed target journal:  Phys Rev C
Presentation: https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/note/20171201_PWGC_GXie.pdf
Proposal wepage: https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/proposal/D0SpectraPaper.html
Paper draft : https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/draft/20171201_D0spectra.pdf
Analysis Note : https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/xgn1992/paper/D0spectra/note/20171102_D0spectra_Note.pdf

- Brief introduction from the PWG conveners (5') [Rongrong]
- Paper proposal (15')  [Guannan]
- Open discussions (35')
- Summary from the conveners' panel (5’)

2) QM2018 abstracts: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/quark-matter-2018-star-abstracts
Heavy  5 oral (+12 poster)
JetCorr 4 (+2)
Instru. 2 (+2)
LFSUPC 6 (+1): triton and He3, Al+Au in FXT and Au+Au in FXT (BulkCorr), dimuon, strangeness in U+U
BulkCorr 13 (+7) https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/llope/qm18abstracts

QM2015 (28 submitted, 18 accepted for oral presentation)
BulkCorr: 10 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
HF: 8 submitted, 6 accepted for oral.
JC: 3 submitted, 2 accepted for oral.
LFS: 5 submitted, 4 accepted for oral.
Instr.: 2 submitted, 1 accepted for oral.   

QM2017 (27 submitted, 17 accepted for oral presentation)
BulkCorr: 12 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
HF: 5 submitted, 5 accepted for oral.
JC: 4 submitted, 3 accepted for oral.
LFS: 4 submitted, 3 accepted for oral.
Instr.: 2 submitted, 1 accepted for oral.

3) Embedding requests

Run14 pi+- without HFT in tracking from JetCorr for QM18 (2 weeks)
Run16 pi/k/p/Upsilon from HF for QM18 (2 weeks, kick in anytime once the ticket is resolved, since they have been waiting for a long time).
CuAu pi/k/p requests from LFSUPC for QM18 (2 weeks)
BES K*0 requests from Bulkcorr (3 weeks)
Diffractive processes in Run 15 data from LFSUPC (?)

STAR (Forward-)Upgrade Meeting

2017-11-07 10:00
America/New York

 Agenda:
======

- Lijuan: update on sTGC plans
- Oleg: update on forward HCAL and ECAL R&D

Weekly Meeting (Nov. 6, FMS analyzers)

- Chong: FMS BS QA update (2)
- Minghui: FMS point geometry match.

Homework assignments

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 11:20, Duration : 00:10

 

Open discussions

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 10:50, Duration : 00:30

 

Review of PWGC recommendations

Speaker : All ( All )


Talk time : 10:45, Duration : 00:05

 

Code QA report

Speaker : Long Ma ( Fudan University )


Talk time : 10:25, Duration : 00:20