The 201st SiD Optimization Meeting

Wednesday 28 Apr 2021, 09:00 → 10:30 America/Los_Angeles

Dan Protopopescu

Bi-weekly meeting of the SiD Detector Optimization group. Join this meeting via this link:

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

Attending: Amanda, Andy, Austin, Caterina, Chris, Christian, Dan, Dwayne, Jim, Marty

Minutes:

• Chris gave an update on his Higgs to invisible studies: recap of the Feb 17 talk, full simulation with 'all SM' background; new inputs added.
• Andy - UTA in contact with CALICE and reviewing HCal model parameters and calibration constants
• Jim - continuing his MAPS studies; current resolution for e.g. a 10GeV EM shower of 5% could be halved with a MAPS design
• Caterina - silicon detector expert from ATLAS, considering future contributions to SiD
• Andy, Austin, Chris and Dan stayed on to discuss HCal model parameters and calibration constants - will have to look into notes from 2017-18; also questions about new Merlin functionality added by D. Jeans; will continue via email till next meeting

Next meeting: May 12, 2021

09:00 → 09:05 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), 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), Alexander Albert (Cornell University), Kehang Bai (University of Oregon), Ketevi Assamagan (BNL), Mohamed Zaazoua (CERN), Caterina Vernieri (SLAC), Michael Kagan (SLAC)

potter_sidopt_28April2021.pdf

09:05 → 09:25 Higgs to invisible: MVA Second Pass

Speaker: Christopher Potter (University of Oregon)