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Folks,<br>
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-- Mark<br>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" style="font-weight:
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30, 2015</span></h1>
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<p style="widows: 3; orphans: 3; margin: 1em 0px; line-height:
1.2em;">Present: Eugene Chudakov (chair), Mark Dalton,
Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, David Lawrence,
Paul Mattione, Lubomir Pentchev, Dmitry Romanov, Sascha
Somov, Justin Stevens, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni
Zihlmann<br>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Eugene"></span></p>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Eugene">Eugene</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>publications
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>if an outside collaborator is the corresponding
author a copy should be sent to JLab and entered into
the system</li>
<li>if a Lab staff member is the corresponding author,
then the Lab needs to approve the publication as well</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="David">David</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>new version of JANA
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>implement sensible exit status values</li>
<li>other bug fixes, including changing the event number
from 32 to 64 bits</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>run period name will change this week
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>clearing out space on raid disk 1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>developing event source for high rate testing
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>seeing limitation on memory-to-memory transfers</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Tim">Tim</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>solenoid
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>met with Cryo today</li>
<li>pumping and purging underway</li>
<li>tomorrow U-tubes go back in</li>
<li>coils 1,2,3 buttoned up, coil 4 tomorrow</li>
<li>ready for cool down at end of the week</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>beamline
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>hooked up and pumping</li>
<li>secondary collimator needs survey</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Hall temperature monitoring now done from north side of
solenoid
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>+/- 1 degree F over last day or so</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Simon">Simon</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>working on straw deformation corrections with Mike Staib</li>
<li>doing simulations for rare eta decays</li>
<li>doing simulations for the K-long letter of intent</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Alexandre">Alexandre</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>coming up to speed with accelerator preparations for the
coming run</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Sascha">Sascha</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>modifying various configurations
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>read-out boards</li>
<li>synch events</li>
<li>transition radiation detector crate (with start
counter)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>global trigger debugging
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>BCAL LED trigger distribution</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>new trigger supervisor firmware testing</li>
<li>simulation for rare eta decays
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>work with Ilya Larin</li>
<li>putting in realistic geometry</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Eugene: flux from pair spectrometer, need rough
efficiency estimate</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Dmitry">Dmitry</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>implementing user requests for CCDB
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>next release coming soon</li>
<li>working with Sean on improvements to the Python API</li>
<li>adding documentation on GitHub site</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>re-establishing the RCDB
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>data being written by CODA now, work with Sergey F.</li>
<li>bringing up GUI</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Mark_D.">Mark D.</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>new temperature control system
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>re-establish feed-back system</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>new project: study of BCAL clustering algorithm
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>many ideas have been proposed, few tested
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>do charged both charged an neutral clustering,
decide on which to use based on track matching</li>
<li>once charged track matching done, revisit
clustering decisions</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>for single photons in simulation, at certain angles
and energies, as many as 30% of the time multiple
clusters are found</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Mark_I.">Mark I.</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>sim1
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>30% of runs fail with long hdgeant execution time</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>data challenge 3
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>long runs with EVIO files will seg fault</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>new release of sim-recon
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>meant for use by simulation</li>
<li>problem identified by Paul; BCAL timing issue, need
to fix before simulation production</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Hovanes">Hovanes</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>FCAL voltage controls
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>make it similar to BCAL and TOF systems</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>new readout for beam profiler
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>need to check with source; make sure cabling OK</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>work on Hot Checkout with motor systems</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Beni">Beni</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>work done on energy calibration for TOF (on back burner
now)</li>
<li>CDC readiness work</li>
<li>integrate knocking sensors into PXI</li>
<li>next week: chair review committee for Dark Light</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Lubomir">Lubomir</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>resolution now 150 microns for cathodes, a bit less for
wires</li>
<li>cosmic data checked
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>with Luke</li>
<li>fewer bad channels than before</li>
<li>about 0.5% for cathodes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>FDC ready to go
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>one bad HV channel, trips, will condition</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>using new chiller for about a month now, without
incident</li>
<li>spare package ready to go</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Paul">Paul</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>scalar GUIs all done
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>only main GUI needs any work</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>RF: source of timing jitter still unknown
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>will try to measure with special high resolution
F1-TDC</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>offline monitoring
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>Kei leaving, knowledge being transferred</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Spring Analysis Workshop
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>JSA giving $2500, Lab will contribute $2500</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Justin">Justin</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>DIRC review: still waiting on report from committee
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>working from oral recommendations, will resubmit
project management plan</li>
<li>goal: before end of year</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>got new amplitudes for rho production from Adam S.
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>adds sigma, f_2 exchange in addition to Pomeron</li>
<li>all coded up</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 style="page-break-after: avoid; font-weight: bold;"><span
class="mw-headline" id="Run_Preparations.2C_Alexandre">Run
Preparations, Alexandre</span></h2>
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>accelerator was at Hot Standby for Thanksgiving</li>
<li>now circulation beam, only one day behind schedule</li>
<li>may see beam in Tagger Hall Monday or Tuesday</li>
<li>small rastering for active collimator calibration
<ul style="list-style-type: square;">
<li>requested by Richard Jones</li>
<li>will be worked on by ACC</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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