The 189th SiD Optimization Meeting

Wednesday 26 Aug 2020, 09:00 → 10:00 America/Los_Angeles

Dan Protopopescu

Join the meeting on Zoom via this new link:

https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/91432972122?pwd=U1RGKzFtSEVkdERLV01HQk9vMmFGZz09

Attending: Amanda, Andy, Chester, Chris, Dan, Jason, Jim, Joel, Lucas, Makayla 

Minutes:

• Lucas presented an update on his CP violation studies; added new NN inputs (32/14); two hidden NN layers; to do: further reduce leptonic W decay background (see attached PDF)
• Makayla: working on Higgs to invisible, has some preliminary plots
• Chester: working on H -> s sbar, reconstruction of Z -> muon pairs as primary source of background; TOF of various decay chain particles, etc.; will try to present slides at the next meeting
• Joel - says currently the UK funding perspectives look good
• Jim - this last week DoE had organized a meeting to inform PIs of funding strategies, showed a slide stating US support for Japan wrt commiting to the ILC (see https://orau.gov/heppi2020/presentations/day01/Parallel_145-315_EFRC_Patwa.pdf); April 2022 would be envisaged as the start date for the Pre-lab
• Andy - students at Austin working on signal to background studies for H -> inv, using samples provided by Chris; will try to present at the next meeting

Next meeting: September 9th

09:00 → 09:10 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), 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), Jason Barkeloo (University of Oregon), Jim Brau (University of Oregon), Joel Goldstein (University of Bristol, UK), Joey Carlson (University of Oregon), Marcel Stanitzki (DESY, Germany), Martin Breidenbach (SLAC), Mengqing Wu (DESY, Germany), Takayuki Ueno (Tohoku University, Japan), Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC), Yevgeniya Shtalenkova (SCIPP), Mr Austin Prior (University of Texas Arlington), Lucas Braun (University of Oregon), Chester Mantel (University of Oregon), Makayla Massar (University of Oregon)

HEP_CPViolation_08_26_2020_01.pdf

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09:10 → 09:30 H → τ+τ− CP Violation Analysis for SiD

Speaker: Lucas Braun

09:30 → 09:40 Round the table