[Brahms-l] BRAHMS Minutes for 31 Jul 09

From: Michael Murray <mjmurray_at_ku.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:43:09 -0500
Minutes of BRAHMS Analysis meeting  Friday 31 July 2009
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Present: Flemming, Kris, Michael and Selemon (Pawel had technical  
problems connnecting)

Since our regular phone bridge reservation had expired we used EVO.  
Flemming will book a new phone bridge for next week. Michael went first.

Agenda & Slides at
http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=65359

09:30 Brief Update on CuCu_at_200 GeV 	Selemon Bekele
09:50 d/p paper 	Michael Murray
10:10 p/pi draft Pawel: (Postponed to next week but please see paper  
indico	

d/p paper: Michael
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Casper has produced new figures for the paper. A few unreliable  
points at high Pt were dropped and the phase space density is now  
plotted as a function of m_T. A bug was fixed at y=3 where the phase  
density was a factor 3 too high.  The phase density at y=0 and y=1 is  
now very consistent with the chemical potential we deduce from fits  
to k,pi,p spectra. Michael has done a literature search and will add  
a new section on the importance of flow. Ian, Joe and Dieter have  
been suggested as the paper committee.

Todo>> Decide which Journal to aim for.

Selemon: Brief Update on CuCu_at_200 GeV
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He is using Kris's pp data as a reference for R_AA.
At y=0 his R_AA is consistent with PHENIX.
At y=3 he seems to have a mass ordering of R_AA.
To calculate dN/dy he has used blast wave function. He didn't like  
the fact that the function integrated over the whole rapidity range  
+- infinity.
This seems unreasonable at forward rapidity. He changed this to  
reduce the rapidity range that he integrates over.
For the narrowist range, delta Eta=0.4,  he this does not seem to  
work very well but once he gets delta Eta=0.8, 2 or 2.8 he seems to  
be fine.

He asked for lambda corrections and then there was a useful  
discussion about our sensitivity to this problem. He will send a  
draft paper to Steve and Michael next week.

Todo>> For the d/p paper we should include some discussion on this  
sensitivity, since it certainly effects our slopes.

===============  Submitted by Michael Murray   
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