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Re: pio's and eta's in BCAL/FCAL




HI all,

We should post this type of communications to the halld-cal list server so
that everyone can be included.

Cheers, Elton.

Elton Smith
Jefferson Lab MS 12H5
12000 Jefferson Ave
Suite # 16
Newport News, VA 23606
elton@jlab.org
(757) 269-7625

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Zisis Papandreou wrote:

> Hi Matt:
>
> what you propose makes a lot of sense.
>
> - the weekly meeting is a good idea and Regina can organize the
> tele/video conf part of it, once we run through Curtis' scheduler
> - simulations: since Mihajlo has started looking at the full
> simulation, we at Regina can reactivate Rafael's Beam Test standalone
> MC and run it in conjunction to the analysis.  That geometry is ready
> as is.  No issue with FDC cables there! :-)
>
> Cheers, Zisis...
>
> P.S.  Thanks for 'agreeing' to coordinate the calorimeter working
> group.  Or did Alex just 'volunteer' you!  :-)
>
> On 29-Apr-07, at 6:01 PM, Matthew Shepherd wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > On Apr 29, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> >
> >> All of this backs up Alex's point that we need some real simulations,
> >> with shower reconstruction working in the forward and the barrel, to
> >> answer these questions.
> >
> > Mihajlo has started to work a little with the full simulation to
> > explore "reconstructability" of photons in the extreme forward with
> > existing BCAL reconstruction algorithms.
> >
> > I see two complementary efforts:  we really need to work hard on
> > simulating BCAL response in the context of the full detector.  This
> > tells us about acceptance holes and material effects.  We also need to
> > tackle this problem using test beam data directly since this is in a
> > sense, the best case reconstruction scenario.  (I'm not saying
> > anything new here...)
> >
> > I'll ask Curtis to setup the scheduler.  I think it would be good to
> > arrange a weekly standing calorimetry meeting to really focus on these
> > issues.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
> >
> >
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