[Brahms-l] BRAHMS Minutes 05 Feb 2010

From: Michael Murray <mjmurray_at_ku.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:59:04 -0600
Minutes of BRAHMS Analysis meeting Friday 05 February 2010
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Present: Flemming, JH, Ramiro, Kris, Michael, Steve and Casper.

Agenda and slides
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http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=84020
09:30 	PID plot from AuAu F.Videbaek (BNL)
09:35 	dp draft Feb 04 	Michael and Casper
	
Since Steve was delayed by the snow we started with the dp draft.

dp draft:  Michael and Casper
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We started with a discussion of Flemmings PID plot. We will try it  
using color intensity plots. Michael has added references to  
coalesence at lower energy data and RHIC and made a  slight redo of  
the abstract and conclusions.

Todo >> BNL group will go over text carefully next week.

Todo >> Michael
Reference ART paper on direct production of deuterons and also  
mention that the change in the behavior of B2 starts already at AGS  
energies.

Todo >> Casper redo all plots in PID format.

PID plot from AuAu: Flemming
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Flemming showed PID plots from the forward spectrometer for AuAu. He  
has concerns about the Pt limits that Selemon reaches.

Todo: Steve will set up a doodle poll for a discussion with Selemon  
about the PID cuts in CuCu. We would then decide where to put the  
cutoff for Pt.

Flemming has one concern about the CuCu proton spectra. Since he did not
analyize the data in veto mode he has a lower Pt cut of 1GeV,  
compared to 0.5GeV in AuAu.  Flemming finds that the mean <pt> for  
auau ~ 780 GeV/c 33-43% smaller than CuCu central!

Todo>> Flemming thinks he may be able to help produce new proton  
spectra with veto analysis.

Todo>> Selemon Steve send lists of runs, Selemon will then need to  
redo blast wave fits.

JH asked if we use the weighted center of the bin in our fits. Ramiro  
says that our fits are done this way.


Steve: V2
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For the previous analysis he used Erik's event generator + GEANT+  
PHOBOS V2  to produce a resolution correction. He is trying a sub  
event analysis in which he plots  the average difference in the  
cosines in the two sub-events which depends on V2/sqrt(number of  
particles)  Steve has got his flattening parameters done. He will see  
if this makes sense and then work on the real data. He is reworking  
his code to get it working again but also adding the subevent  
analysis. This should be less model dependent that what we have done  
so far.

Kris: Wasn't able to work on pp this week
Ramiro: Had generated all the d-A spectra that he needs and is now  
doing quality checks. He is trying to get as wide as possible Pt  
range. For protons he cannot get exact matches in rapidity but thinks  
he can extract physics from it by fitting a rapidity dependent  
slope.  (For example y=2.8 and y=3.0) He is implimenting JH's idea to  
merge pions and kaons so that he can look at mesons/baryons.

JH asked about "cross talk run". Ramiro says he gets consistency  
between the mid-rapidity and forward spectrometers. 
  
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