February 8

• First draft lanl group meeting: lanl_group_meeting_100208.pdf: lanl_group_meeting_100208.pdf

January 28

• presentation with Z pgun solved new efficiencies

January 26 2010

• checking Z generation commits
• November presention

January 25 2010

• manpower survey ?

• Gerd's slides on pixel ? meeting Tracker Pixels Meetings

• Hydjet root file (2000events) at CERN root -l rfio:/castor/cern.ch/user/s/silvest/rootfiles/HI/hydjet_Summer09_MC_31X_V2_GaussianVtx_311_ver1_2000evts.root
  • I also have a same and an opposite sign di-muon tree

// Loop over all sim products
for(TrackingParticleCollection::size_type i=0;i < simCollection.product()->size(); ++i)
{
   // Retreive tracking particle reference
   const TrackingParticleRef simTrack(simCollection, i);
    // loop over all HepMC particles which make up this track. In principle there can be more than one
    TrackingParticle::genp_iterator sim_part_it;
    TrackingParticle::genp_iterator sim_part_begin  = simTrack->genParticle_begin();
    TrackingParticle::genp_iterator sim_part_end = simTrack->genParticle_end();
    for (sim_part_it = sim_part_begin; sim_part_it != sim_part_end; ++sim_part_it)
    {   
      const HepMC::GenParticle *part = sim_part_it->get();
      // check if particle will reach the muon stations 
      if( part==NULL || abs(part->momentum().eta())>2.5) continue;

• pgun with some code committed by Generator crew is under validation... I'll make the same slides with the fix to see how it behaves. A first check with 500 Z suggest that the low pt region has no more excess but there are still some dimuons (Z) with a pt larger then the initial cut at 20GeV.

• di-lepton report went well
  • need to continue work on background checks => is hydjet a relevant background for muon studies ?
  • preparing a meeting on muon reconstruction in HI with experts and us for mid-february

• service work ?

January 20 2010

• slide for highlights : BudgetReview2010-LHC-CMS-Highlights.pptx BudgetReview2010-LHC-CMS-Highlights.pdf
• application for CNRS
• travel request
• service work
• slide from Andi last week presentation ?

• studies ongoing :
  • hydjet studies
  • high pt Z0 embedded in hydjets efficiency

• upcoming events
  • dilepton meeting
  • dilepton review
  • presentation at lanl
  • Hot quark participation ? abstract ?

January 4 2010

• News from Dave about the service work ?
• Application to the CNRS
• Travel : leaving LANL on thursday 11th Febuary and coming back on Monday 3rd of May ? Will you come for CMS week in march ?

December 16 2009

• should I keep gathering slides about plots from CMS, lhc news ?
• service work : Gerd will write to Dave to know how t oget into the trigger team and take trigger shifts

December 14 2009

• New from CERN week 7-11th of December: CMS week

December 7 2009

• CERN news: slides summary of cern activity
• answer Bolek : doing trigger shifts might make sense => see with Dave; UIC should update that I take service work with them; then the service manager will be notified; Bolek says DQM shifts are also service work and should be added automatically to my account of service work
• no answer from Roberto about his slide 3 : data driven or MC based ? But listening to a talk today I understand that the dada driven estimations may not be feasible when the statistics is too low. This may be the reason...
• PAT matching : same accessors to matching as RECO, details here
• I may apply to a CNRS position : what recommendation letter that I had for LANL were good ones ?

December 1 2009

• discuss GEN slides before posting
• plans for 2 months
  • analysis wise : write scketch of AN with figure captions and send it for discussion to list
    • go through todo list
  • neutron simulations ? or later later
  • shifts ? RD ? write to Bolek to know about service work, and how to sign papers
• I could send a summary pointing to interesting plots /news every week for monday meeting to be send every monday
• talk every wednesday ? what time mondays and wednesday @17h GVA time @9AM LANL time
• twiki ? yes

summary of todos

• write to Roberto to know about slide 3 of his slide : data driven or MC based ?
• study Dipanwita note AN2007/00, Z->mumu AN2006/082, AN2006/124, arxiv0706.2940v1
• draft Z0 first year AN : here
• look at what matching information come from PAT to see if I move completely to PAT or just partly

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