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* Wouter: Planning to merge some of the pion branch geometry in to main branch for others to use.
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* Scott: Running some initial simulations with a simple Shower Max type detector, also reduced size of the virtual detector before the lead wall to better understand the pion spectrum incident on the lead wall.
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* Wouter(Nevin's Report): Working towards a layered calorimeter design, which is optimized for electron/pion identification. This is probably overkill for our desired application. As the purpose of the calorimeter is really for simulation benchmarking in tracking mode.
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* Wouter: Haven't gotten very far with the mu+ + mu- background generator. Has taken a back seat to the other branch merging tasks currently being worked on. The plan is to implement a generator that will read in Mad-Graph output.

Latest revision as of 14:38, 3 August 2017

MOLLER wiki home:MOLLER_at_11_GeV_E09-005

Previous Meeting: MOLLER_Pion_Background_Meeting_Thursday,_July_6,_2017_2:00pm_EST

Meeting Information

BlueJeans Call Information

URL: https://bluejeans.com/624029893

Phone Number: 1-888-240-2560

Meeting ID: 624029893

Agenda

  • Wouter: General simulation updates.
  • Scott: Lead wall thickness determination.
  • Nevin: Pion Calorimeter Studies
  • Director's Review Questions (Completed by end of summer 2017):
    • mu+ + mu- background?
    • beam dump back scattering background?
  • Any new business?

Minutes

Attendees: Wouter, Paul, Seamus, Nevin, Kurtis(late)

Not Attending:

Scribe: Kurtis

  • Wouter: Planning to merge some of the pion branch geometry in to main branch for others to use.
  • Scott: Running some initial simulations with a simple Shower Max type detector, also reduced size of the virtual detector before the lead wall to better understand the pion spectrum incident on the lead wall.
  • Wouter(Nevin's Report): Working towards a layered calorimeter design, which is optimized for electron/pion identification. This is probably overkill for our desired application. As the purpose of the calorimeter is really for simulation benchmarking in tracking mode.
  • Wouter: Haven't gotten very far with the mu+ + mu- background generator. Has taken a back seat to the other branch merging tasks currently being worked on. The plan is to implement a generator that will read in Mad-Graph output.