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<p>Folks,</p>
<p>Please find the notes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_April_13,_2020">here</a>
and below.</p>
<p> -- Mark</p>
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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span
dir="auto">Hall D Staff Meeting, April 13, 2020</span></h1>
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<p>Present: Fernando Barbosa, Eugene Chudakov (chair), Mark
Dalton, Alexandre Deur, Hovanes Egiyan, Sergey Furletov,
Mark Ito, Igal Jaegle, Keigo Mizutani, Lubomir Pentchev,
Patrizia Rossi, Elton Smith, Sascha Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim
Whitlatch, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> JLab/BNL partnership on EIC moving forward.</li>
<li> PHE use is higher than anticipated. Should not be used
in place of sick or vacation.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Patrizia">Announcements,
Patrizia</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Accountability exercise last week had same response as
previous exercises despite remote location of many staff
members.</li>
<li> LDRD
<ul>
<li> this year: mandatory pre-proposal, due at end of
month</li>
<li> budget doubled this year</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Technical_Staff_Work.2C_Tim">Technical
Staff Work, Tim</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Encouraged to give technical staff training and task
opportunities</li>
<li> Scot was given computer, can do scheduling and P&I
at home</li>
<li> Bobby got multi-factor and can access his computer.
Doing 3-D print jobs at home, e.g., baffles for DIRC</li>
<li> Welding training and practice can be done by those with
equipment at home.</li>
<li> Stephanie busy with design work at home.</li>
<li> Patrizia: Will Oren will announce training
opportunities for engineers.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Problems_Working_Remotely">Problems
Working Remotely</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Beni: connection and/or response slow from time to
time.</li>
<li> Elton: cannot cut and paste from VNC session to local
session.</li>
<li> Mark: cannot access journals directly from home
computer.</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="PrimEx_Data_Processing">PrimEx
Data Processing</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Sascha: on schedule, second monitoring launch this week</li>
<li> Igal: doing quality checks on recent FCAL calibrations.
Looking at effects with different "rings" of the FCAL.</li>
<li> Sascha: progress on luminosity with CCAL</li>
<li> Production processing will be done at JLab</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="SRC_ERR">SRC ERR</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Patrizia: May 7 a candidate date.</li>
<li> Sascha: Chris Keith invited to talk on target</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Proposals">New Proposals</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="NPP.2C_Elton">NPP, Elton</span></h3>
<ul>
<li> Review committee: Barry Ritchie and Joerg Reinhold,
expect feedback on Thursday.</li>
<li> Group meeting once per week, including Jose Goity,
Svetlana Barkanova, and Rory Miskimen.</li>
<li> Elton looking at using AmpTools to estimate sensitivity
to signal in presence of interfering sigma production.</li>
<li> Meeting held this morning: Elton, Ilya Larin, Rory,
with Sergey Gevorgyan on t-distribution of sigma
production
<ul>
<li> Sergey expects same as for single pion angular
distribution.</li>
<li> He will pass calculations on to Ilya.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Beni: started analyzing data from PrimEx monitoring
launch for π<sup>0</sup>π<sup>0</sup> from helium.</li>
</ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="GDH.2C_Alexandre">GDH,
Alexandre</span></h3>
<ul>
<li> Review committee: Garth Huber and Frank Nerling, they
will meet with proponents.</li>
<li> Wiki page constructed to collect materials.</li>
<li> Simulations started, needed to compute backgrounds.</li>
<li> Next week Mark D. will present at virtual APS April
meeting.</li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="PAC.2C_Eugene">PAC, Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> This year, GlueX, JEF, CPP all up for Jeopardy</li>
<li> PrimEx and SRC are on tentative schedule</li>
<li> Matt Shepherd discussing how to approach jeopardy</li>
<li> Elton: CPP a ten-minute talk, NPP a full proposal</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Miscellaneous_Items">Miscellaneous
Items</span></h2>
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<li> Tim: only new alarm was from CDC gas last Thursday.
Alarm level adjusted.</li>
<li> Tim: design software working well from home</li>
<li> Eugene: items arriving at shipping and receiving need
inspection, discussions on-going with Rolf on how to
handle.</li>
<li> Status of RAID 3
<ul>
<li> Tim: was still alarming during last walkthrough</li>
<li> Sergey: will check on status.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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