169th Optimization meeting

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 08:00 → 09:00 America/Los_Angeles

Dan Protopopescu

Join via https://stanford.zoom.us/j/867873981, or see email announcement for more details on how to join this meeting remotely.

Participants: Aidan, Andy White, Andrew Myers, Dan, Jim, Joey, Marty

Minutes:

• Andy - resolution studies; slide showing energy deposits from charged pions into SiD calorimeter endcaps, close to the barrel-endcap overlap region 
• Jim - Joey investigating why Pandora does not properly match e- tracks with showers in the calorimeter; experimenting with the matching algorithm parameters in Pandora; will present at the next meeting
• Dan - tested SiD_o2_v03 with ILCSoft v02-00-02 and did not encounter any errors or warnings (see https://www.evernote.com/l/AJ0s2qE1Na5LxaLe3P81eiA8kjYMqwnpvhU); for further investigations would need access to analysis code used by Joey and/or Chris

Next meeting in two weeks.

Marty, Andy and Jim will stay on to discuss a few other issues.

 

08:00 → 08:05 Upload area

Speakers: Aidan Robson (University of Glasgow, UK), Amanda Lynn Steinhebel (University of Oregon), Andrew Myers (University of Texas Arlington), Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington), Anne Schuetz (DESY, Germany), Bogdan Mishchenko, Bruce Andrew Schumm (University of California,Santa Cruz), Chris Potter (University of Oregon), Christopher Thomas Potter (University of Oregon), Dan Protopopescu (University of Glasgow, UK), Davis Austin (University Of Oregon), James Brau (University of Oregon), Jan Strube (PNNL), Jim Brau (University of Oregon), Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol, UK), Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol, UK), Joey Carlson (University of Oregon), Marcel Stanitzki (DESY, Germany), Martin Breidenbach (SLAC), Mengqing Wu (DESY, Germany), Ross McCoy (University of Texas at Arlington), Takayuki Ueno (Tohoku University, Japan), Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC), Yevgeniya Shtalenkova (SCIPP)

08:05 → 08:20 UTA presentation

Resolution studies

SiD_HCal_pions_endcap_05222019.pdf