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    <p>Folks,</p>
    <p>Please find the minutes <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_November_29,_2021#Minutes">here</a>
      and below,</p>
    <p>  -- Mark</p>
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          <h2 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span dir="auto">HDGeant4 Meeting, November 29, 2021, </span><span class="mw-headline" id="Minutes">Minutes</span></h2>
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              <p>Present: Alex Austregesilo, Sean Dobbs, Mark Ito
                (chair), Igal Jaegle, Richard Jones, Simon Taylor, Beni
                Zihlmann
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              <p>There is a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bluejeans.com/s/pgAzBpDI2iH">recording
                  of this meeting</a> on the BlueJeans site. Log into
                the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jlab.bluejeans.com">BlueJeans site</a>
                first to gain access (use your JLab credentials).
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcement">Announcement</span></h3>
              <p>There will be a <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                  text" href="https://mailman.jlab.org/pipermail/halld-offline/2021-November/008696.html">meeting
                  at 4 pm tomorrow</a> to discuss preparations for the
                upcoming Computing Review.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Review_of_minutes_from_the_last_meeting">Review of
                  minutes from the last meeting</span></h3>
              <p>We went over the <a href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/HDGeant4_Meeting,_November_15,_2021#Minutes" title="HDGeant4 Meeting, November 15, 2021">minutes
                  from the meeting on November 15</a>. Richard repeated
                his report of a possible issue where timing signals from
                the FCAL do not agree between data and MC. There was a
                report of seeing accidental peaks in the raw timing
                histograms in simulation where in data they do not
                appear. Richard explained that In data, one needs to
                subtract the RF to get peaks; in simulation, if one does
                the same thing, the seen-in-raw-hits peaks persist. By
                doing time difference to time-difference comparisons,
                there is no mystery, and these are the only comparisons
                we should be doing anyway. He is waiting for
                confirmation of this understanding from the folks who
                raised the issue.
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              <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Issues_on_GitHub"><span class="external text">Issues on GitHub</span></span></h3>
              <p>We looked at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external
                  text" href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues">Issues</a>.
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              <ul>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/196">Data/MC
                    discrepancy in FCal Matching around Beam Hole</a>
                  <ul>
                    <li> Other than that difference in track matching to
                      the FCAL in data vs. simulation, initially noted
                      by Alex, Igal raises a lack of calibration of 2017
                      data for the inner blocks.</li>
                    <li> It is not clear that a fiducial cut is needed
                      to exclude inner blocks from their role as a
                      backup t-zero setter for tracking. The energy is
                      not used, only the time and position in this
                      context.</li>
                    <li> Sean will review the status of the 2017
                      calibration.</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/195">Crash
                    adding daughters on RHEL/CentOS 8</a>
                  <ul>
                    <li> We think this one is resolved but are still
                      waiting for Hao Li to confirm the fix.</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
                <li> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/JeffersonLab/HDGeant4/issues/191">Add
                    incident angle dependence to DIRC mirror
                    reflectivity</a>
                  <ul>
                    <li> This enhancement remains on the books. Richard
                      will consult with the DIRC folks to see if they
                      have done any further thinking on this. In
                      principle, implementation is straightforward.</li>
                  </ul>
                </li>
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