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BRAHMS Dec 2003 Collaboration Meeting at BNL

A 3 day meeting held at BNL with following participants: D.Beavis, C.Chasman, JH Lee, Hiro Ito, R.Debbe, F.Videbaek, I.G.Bearden, C.E.Jorgensen, K. Hagel, T. Materna, M.Murray, Y.K.Lee, S.J.Sanders, T. Tveter, D. Roehrich, C.Ristea, some doughnuts and muffins and lots of snow.   As it turned out the meetings were highly abbreviated due to weather with only the people staying onsite (+ C. Chassman) attending the meeting on Saturday and a somewhat larger contingent on Sunday.  The agenda below is at least what we tried to accomplish.

Agenda for collaboration meeting December 05-07

Friday, December 5 10.00 room 2-187 (Phenix)

Welcome & Brief Overview (15) FV

RdA Status (120 ) -
   Presentation and discussion of data (R.Debbe, CEJorgensen) -
  Rcp, Multiplicity, and RdAu (.pdf) (JH Lee) -
  Discussion of paper, physics content (committee)

Lunch --

13:45 room 2-95

Publications Status & outstanding issues of papers to be presented by paper committee.
  d-Au dN/deta paper (SJSanders) (10)
  Stopping paper (IG.Bearden) (20)
  Kaon an pion (meson) paper (D.Roehrich) (20)
  Centrality dependence of charged hadrons at y~0 and 1 (JH Lee) (20)

Analysis I
  High pt analysis Bergen, Copenhagen (substitute for ZY ) (30)
  p+p (ppt), d+Au "soft" KHagel ; T.Tveter (for BS) (30) (30)
  Au-Au at large rapidities; latest from y=3 (IGBearden, for Peter) (15)

Collaboration DinnerCancelled

Saturday December 6. Physics Room 3-172

Run Preparations. -
  Shifts, training, safety (F.Videbaek) -
  IR improvements, trigger detectors (D.Beavis) -
  Si-Detector re-arrangement and flow measurements (S.J.Sanders)
  Run Planning Overview from Beam Use Proposal and constraints ppt (F.Videbaek)
  Comment from each institution (request)
  Discussion for priorities in strategic run planning

QM preparations Outline/draft of talks including remaining analysis to be done
  M.Murray,R.Debbe, IGB for D.Ouerdane, D.Roehrich for Z.Yin

Future planning RHIC near term running (run 5/6)
Brahms improvements for run 5,6
  Flow detector (xx,yy)
  Trigger upgrades (FV)

16:00 Institutional meeting

Sunday December 7

Analysis II Rapidity dependent flow (JH.Lee)
  Thermal descritptions ( C.Ristea, M.Murray)
  Software & Analysis Acceptances,
     Global tracking (ppt)
     RCF issues (disk management, queues, upgrades)

Planning for online-analysis
Planning for calibrations, reconstruction