ALICE EMCal off-line meeting

19 May 2009, 08:00 → 21 May 2009, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Aula di Direzione, Building n.1 (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati <!-- ID_UTENTE=505 --> - Aula di Direzione)

Meeting of the EMCal collaboration to define the working strategy on online/offline software developments for the first physics data taking, 19 and 20 of May. Also, EMCal Physics Performance Report status discussion, 21 of May.

document hotelreservationform.pdf

Tuesday, 19 May

08:45 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome

09:05 → 18:05 Calorimeter software development

09:05 Detector Assembly Plan

Speaker: Tom Cormier

Slides Cormier_Frascati.pdf

09:30 Offline Code Status : Introduction, Topics and Tasks

Speaker: Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (LNF)

Slides EMCALMeetingFrascati0509_EMCALStatusTasks.pdf EMCALMeetingFrascati0509_EMCALStatusTasks.ppt

10:00 Manpower in Europe (Italy, France and Brasil)

Speaker: Gustavo Conesa Balbastre (LNF)

Slides ManpowerEUBrasil.pdf ManpowerEUBrasil.ppt

10:15 Manpower in US

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Online software status

Speaker: David Silvermyr

Slides http://dsilverm.web.cern.ch/dsilverm/presentations/EMCAL20090519/Online.ppt

11:30 Cosmic run

Speaker: Terry Awes

Slides AwesFrascati_05_09.ppt

12:00 Lunch break

14:00 Fast vs standard fitting procedure in EMCal (Via EVO)

Speaker: Dr Alexei Pavlinov (IHEP)

Slides Pavlinov_StdFitVsFastFitSimulationEMCAL.pdf

14:15 PHOS Pi0 ID and calibration (via EVO)

Speaker: Yuri Kharlov

Slides

• pi0_in_EMCAL.pdf
• pi0_in_EMCAL.ppt
• pi0_in_EMCAL.pptx

14:45 SM Calibration code at Grenoble, experience

Speaker: Julien Faivre

Slides Faivre200905Frascati.pdf

15:00 Trigger simulation

Speaker: Rachid Guernane

Slides Guernane_EMCalTrigger.pdf

16:00 Coffee break and Visit to module assembly stations

16:30 Time resolution results from beam test data

Speaker: Dr David Silvermyr (ORNL)

Slides http://dsilverm.web.cern.ch/dsilverm/presentations/EMCAL20090519/EMCalTiming.pptx

16:50 Discussion. Beam test results and paper

Speaker: Delia Hasch

Slides delia-frascati190509.ppt

Wednesday, 20 May

09:00 → 22:00 Physics and analysis software

09:00 Prompt photon identification via isolation cuts, model comparisons: HERWIG Vs PYTHIA

Speaker: Amaya Ofelia Casanova Diaz

Slides Casanova_offlinemeeting.ppt

09:30 Prompt photon identification and pi0 rejection via isolation cuts in pp collision. Theoretical and experimental approach.

Speaker: Raphaelle Ichou

Slides Ichou_isolation.ppt

10:00 Update of the PID with EMCal (via EVO)

Speaker: Dr Marie Germain (SUBATECH)

Slides PIDEMCALStatus20MaiFrascati.pdf PIDEMCALStatus20MaiFrascati.ppt

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Gamma-hadron correlation in Alice

Speaker: Yaxian Mao

Slides Mao_EMCal_Frascati.pdf

11:45 Jets measurement in Alice for the first year

Speaker: Andreas Morsch

Slides Morsch_Frascati_2009.ppt

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 QPYTHIA and Jet Algorithms

Speaker: Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez

Slides Cunqueiro_Quenched_jets_and_algorithms.ppt

14:45 Jet Reconstruction with EMCal in ALICE software

Speaker: Magali Estienne

Slides Frascati2009_Estienne.ppt

15:30 coffee break

16:15 SISCone jet algorithm

Speaker: Swensy Jangal

Slides EMCALMeeting.ppt

17:30 Manpower in US

Speaker: John W. Harris

Slides ALICE-USA_for_Frascati_Meeting.pdf

17:45 Discussion

20:30 Social Dinner

Ristorante ARA ANUA
Piazza S. Flavia Domitilla,1
Frascati

Thursday, 21 May

09:00 → 19:00 Physics Performance Report

09:00 Overview of EMCal Tasks

Speaker: Yves Roland Schutz

Slides Schutz_EMCALTasksReview.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 PPR Overview

Speaker: Rene Bellwied

Slides ppr-frascati-may09.ppt

12:00 PID in ALICE

Speaker: Francesco Blanco

Slides FB_Frascati.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 PID fragmentation functions

Speaker: Christina Markert

Slides PPR_frascati_markert.ppt

14:30 Jet Resonance Studies

Speaker: Dr Renaud Vernet (INFN)

Slides Frascati_EMCal_Vernet.odp Frascati_EMCal_Vernet.pdf

15:00 Jet Reconstruction (via EVO)

Speaker: Joern Putschke

Slides ppr_frascati_putschke.pdf

15:30 Lessons from STAR (via EVO)

Speaker: Elena Bruna

Slides EBruna_EMCalPPR.ppt

16:00 Photons in the EMCal

Speaker: Gustavo Conesa Balbastre

Slides PPRPhotonFrascati.ppt

16:30 Coffee break

17:00 Jet Trigger Studies (via EVO)

Speaker: Mateusz Ploskon

Slides EMCAL_Frascati_mp.pdf

17:30 Electrons in the EMCal (via EVO)

Speaker: Jennifer Klay

Slides Klay_PPR4-update-21May09.ppt

18:00 Closeout Discussion (Rene Bellwied moderating)