• Trigger WG

  Nov. 19 (Wed)  
  14:00 Introduction - Upgrade Phase I Triggers (15')    Costas Foudas 
  14:15 uTCA Technology (20')                            John Jones 
  14:35 Status of the HCAL uTCA Card (20')               Jeremy Mans 
  14:55 Statu of the GCT Matirx Card and Backplane (20') M. Stettler 
  15:15 Status of the TTC/S-LINK64 Card (20')            Tom Gorski 
  15:35  break 
  15:50 Calorimeter Trigger Algorithms for Phase I (20') Sridhara Dasu 
  16:10 Tau Trigger Algorithms for Phase - I (20')       Alexei Safonov 
  16:40 GT Upgrades for Phase - I (20')                  Claudia Wulz 
  17:00 Calorimeter Triggers - Transition to uTCA at LHC and Phase I (20')  Costas Foudas 
  

• Tracking System WG [people] [Mike]

  Nov. 19 (Wed)
  16:30->18:30    Simulation and Layout (Convener: Harry Cheung, Duccio Abbaneo)  
  16:30 Studies of trigger doublets (20')                  Mark Pesaresi 
  16:50 Status of studies of a long barrel detector (15')  Michael Weinberger 
  17:05 Geometry Layout Tool (15')                         Duccio Abbaneo 
  17:20 Simulation in part of a detector to cope with high pileup (15')  Vadim Khotilovich
  17:35 Data overlap tool (15')                            Mike Hildreth  
  18:00 Discussion on layout (30') 
  

• Tracking Trigger WG

  Nov. 20 (Thu)  
  09:00->15:00    Track Trigger Working Group (Convener: Peter Sharp )  
  09:00 Introduction and Welcome (10')  Peter Sharp 
  09:10 Why a Tracking Trigger is Crucial for CMS (20') ( Slides    )  Wesley Smith 
  09:30 Triggering using Cluster Width Approach (30')  Fabrizio Palla 
  10:00 Triggering using the Track Vector Approach (30')  Marcello Mannelli 
  10:30 Other Approaches to Track Triggers (30')  TBC 
  11:00 Coffee (20')  All 
  11:20 Simulation of Upgraded Tracker Layout (20')  Harry Cheung 
  11:40 Simulation of Trigger Architectures (20')  Dave Newbold 
  12:00 Simulation of Trigger Primatives (20')  Steve Stroiney 
  12:20 Lunch (40')  All 
  13:00 Discussion of Issues Raised in the various Approaches (2h00') ( Slides    )  Peter Sharp 
  
  15:00->16:30    Track Trigger Plenary Session (Convener: Peter Sharp )  
  15:00 Track Triggering using an Upgraded Muon System (20')  Pierluigi Zotto 
  15:20 Track Triggering using an Upgraded Tracker System (20')  Marcello Mannelli 
  15:40 Overview of the Plans for Simulating a Tracking Trigger (20')  Harry Cheung 
  16:00 Proposed plans for the implementation of a Tracking Trigger (20')  Peter Sharp 
  16:20 Discussion of the Issues Raised (10')  
  

• Muon Detector WG

  Nov. 20 (Thu)  
  09:00 DT upgrade overview (40')                                      Pierluigi Zotto 
  09:40 Specific interests of German groups (30')                      Jens Frangenheim 
  10:10  Coffee break 
  10:40 Triggering CSC Muons in High Pileup Conditions (20')           Vadim Khotilovich
  11:00 Simulation/software tools for upgrade studies/geometries (20') Michael Weinberger 
  11:20 Progress on studying SLHC muon trigger rates with FastSimulation (20')  Eric Charles Brownson 
  

 HCAL anomalous events (30')   
   Study of HCAL Anomalous Evengts (HCAL Noise Monitoring Filter) (15') Alfredo Gurrola 
   Studies for Timing and ECal based ID (15')                           Amnon Harel 
   Tagging of HPD noise (15')                                           Taylan/Shuichi 

• Phone Meeting with Filip (10 am FNAL) ... on MET WG

  (1) validation and offline DQM for MET analysis
  (2) Definition and improvement of MET objects
          CALMET
          PFMET
          trackMET (new)
  (3) MET correction
  (4) Software implementation (e.g., PAT) <--> physics group
  (5) CMS note ... list of tasks and status in MET WG group
  

• All US CMS (11 am FNAL) ... Francesco Santanastasio (Maryland) on HCAL at CRAFT
• HEP lunch meeting with Dick and Bhaskar
• LPC Conv. (1:30 pm FNAL) Marat Gataullin, Ken Bloom, Alexei Safonov, Kwangzoo Chung, TK, LPC

  ... "DPG-POG vertical integration" working group?
  ... Mark Madson (Wayne State) sabbatical support
  ... J-Term III in January. The schedule is not yet, will be set up soon.
  ... Tool for 400 events overlap and the event display
  

• H->2tau sub-group meeting (14:00 GVA, 7 am FNAL ) [indico] [people] ... goal = Analysis for 1 fb-1 ... Alfredo's talk ... Colin Bernet on PF tau
• All Hadronic SUSY meeting (16:30 GVA, 9:30 am FNAL) [indico]
• α_T meeting (17:30 GVA, 10:30 am FNAL)
• LPC Forum (1 pm FNAL) [indico]
• Credentials (2 pm FNAL)
• Cambridge Univ. Press (3:30 pm FNAL)
• LHC FP (7 pm FNAL)

[09:00 - 11:00] EWK : MET distribution in W → eν
                QCD : Dijet Δφ to evaluate ISR and FSR effect
                TOP : Analyses for Winter conference in 2009
                      9/18 ~ 9/19  2-Day Topical Lepton+Jet Workshop
                      M3 variable? (This is like the "HT" variable.)
                EXO : 
[11:15 - 12:00] HIG :

- Software tools and data processing
    - offline event skim    - Warren
    - event scan list       - Latife
    - event display         - Vanessa
    - event classification  - Ming/Taylan(pdf file )  
    - HLF filter for HCAL noise/MET stream   - Alfredo  (proposal in preparation)
    - LED data and access to HV/LV info in DB  - Mehmet D

• [09:00 - 12:00] Trigger Sesstion [indico]

  Bandwidth = 50 kHz → 180 M events/hr
  People = at least 1 postdoc per trigger for maintenance
  Core Trigger List:  HLT_MET35
                      JET30 (L1 PS = 25)
                      JET50 (HLT PS = 5)
                      JET80
  Trigger Review Process (10 TeV, 10**32):
       JetMET  12/01
       PF/tau   1/26
       SUSY     2/23
  21X Full Simulation (CSA08)
  ES :== Express Stream
  

• [16:30 - 18:30] Special Session [people(Special Session)]

     - CRAFT (3.8T)               Oct.17 - Nov.11 (Nov.10-11  0T data with same configuration)
     - PreShower installation     end of Feb 2009
     - CMSSW 3_0  (Jan/Feb 2009)  --> RecHit with additional info (status flag)  
     - CRUZET 09  (Apr/May 2009)
  

• [09:00] [Cafeteria] John Ellis
• [13:00] [Cafeteria] Bob McElrath (53-1-024)
• [16:30 - 18:30] [40-2-A01] SUSY meeting [indico]

  16:30 News (10')   
  16:40 Z(mm)+jets Candle analysis in presence of New Physics (20')  Maurizio Pierini 
  17:05 Tau + Jet + MET SUSY analysis with PAT (20')  Jonathan Asaadi 
  17:30 New V+Jets group and SUSY (20') ( Slides   )  Rick/Chris 
  

• [16:30 - 18:30] [32-1-A24] HCAL DPG meeting

  - News (10')    Mayda/Vladimir
  - What we have learn during CRAFT on:  
      * DQM Progress on Channel-Status updates needed online and offline (15') 
          Jeff Temple/Jason St. John
      * Data Validation Procedures (15') 
          Efe Yazgan/Irina Shreyber
  - Impact on phi-asymmetry from (30')    
      * Material effects --> production of true (15') 
          Salavat Abdoulline (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))
      *  Electronics & Phototubes noise as measured from the ALCARECO stream 
         during CRAFT for HB HE and HF (15') 
          Olga Kodolova (Institute for Nuclear Physics)
  - HCAL anomalous events (30')   
      * Progress on HLT/AlCaRaw filter (15') 
          Grigory Safronov/Kwang Zoo Chung/Ted Laird/Alfredo Gurrola
      * New results on the impact to ReCo based on GR data (15') 
          Amnon Harel
  - AOB (20')     
      *  Report on using splash events for HCAL calibration (15') 
          Pawel De Barbaro (High Energy Group) 
  

• [18:30 - 19:30] [40-4B-02] Guenther & Daniel

16:00 News (15')  Greg & Filip 
16:15 Discussion on generator MET on AOD (15')  all 
16:30 MET contamination from Beam Halo Muons (15')  Ronald Charles Remington (Department of Physics-University of Florida)  
16:45 MET in Charged Higgs Analysis (15')  Sami Lehti (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)  
17:00 MET cleanup in SUSYPAT (15')  Benedikt Mura (I. Physikalisches Institut (B))  
17:15 Update on MET with Tracks (15')  Frank Golf (Univ. of California at San Diego (UCSD)-Unknown-Unknown)  

14:00->14:40    POG Integration: JetMET  
14:00 Jets with Particle Flow (15')  Daniele del Re (Univ. La Sapienza & INFN Rome)  
14:20 MET with Particle Flow (15')  Greg Landsberg (Brown University) 
 
15:30->16:50    PAG integration: Electroweak  
15:30 Tau ID commissionign with Z -> tau tau (15')  Alfredo Gurrola (Texas A & M University)  
15:50 Tau reconstruction and identification with particle flow (15')  Evan Klose Friis (UC Davis)  
16:10 W + jets with muons: MET, MT and isolation (15')  Maria Cepeda (C. I. E. M. A. T. (Madrid)) , Douglas Dorbaker  
16:30 W + jets : the electron case (TBC) (15')  
 
16:50->17:20    PAG integration: SUSY & Exotica  
16:50 SUSY with leptons, jet and MET with Particle Flow (15')  Rick Cavanaugh (FNAL/UIC)  
17:05 taus+Jets+MET in SUSY (15')  Jonathan Asaadi (Texas A&M University, TX USA)   

15:20->15:50    Workshop: MET Reconstruction  
15:20 MET determination with Particle Flow: current status and future prospects (30')  Rick Cavanaugh (FNAL/UIC) 

17:00 new MC datasets - news (10')               Giuseppe Bagliesi (INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))  
17:10 Private MC productions for tau group (10') Subir Sarkar (Sezione dell' INFN, Pisa)  
17:20 electron and tau PAT selection (15') Konstantinos Petridis (Imperial College London)  
17:35 muon and tau PAT selection (15')     Alfredo Gurrola (Texas A & M University) , Letizia Lusito (Universita & INFN, Bari)  
17:50 trigger task force report (20')      Chi Nhan Nguyen, Sami Lehti (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)  
18:10 W->taunu feasibility studies (20')   Souvik Das 
18:30 W->taunu feasibility studies (20')   Liis Rebane (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB)-Un)  

16:00 News (10')                   Filip & Greg 
16:10 MET from Particle Flow (20') Rick Cavanaugh (FNAL/UIC)  
  
 S. Esen, G. Landsberg, M. Titov, A. DeRoeck, M. Spiropulu, M. Tytgat, D. Puigh, P. Wittich,
	K. Terashi, A. Gurrola, T. Kamon, C.N. Nguyen, A. Safonov, J.W. Gary, F. Liu, H. Nguyen, J. Sturdy, 
      	R. Cavanaugh, R. Remington, M. Schmitt, B. Scurlock, E.A. Albayrak, T. Yetkin, M. Zielinski, 
      	"Missing Transverse Energy Performance in CMS," 
	CMS AN-2007/041
  
 J. Conway, E.K. Friis, M.P. Searle, R. Vasquez Sierra, C. Veelken, A. Gurrola, T. Kamon, 
	C.N. Nguyen, A.N. Safonov, A. Goussiou, D. Jang, N. Marinelli, 
	"Size of Signal Cones and Isolation Rings in the CMS Tau Identification Algorithm," 
	CMS AN-2008/026 
16:30 Update on MET Significance in PAT (15') Xin Shi (Cornell University)  
16:45 A Method for HCAL Data Overlay (20')    Edmund A Berry 

*) Magnet rampup start, Thursday 10-Sept-2008, try to reach 3.8T and 2T through weekend.
*) Global DQM
*) HTL filter for HCAL noise/MET stream (Alfredo) - status report at the next meeting
*) Large MET event classification (Ming)
*) DQM shifts (Jonathan) - Took 3-days and 4-days shifts; most of time, trouble shooting
*) LED data analysis (Mehmet Deliomeroglu) - RecHit vs Digi

• MSSM ---> ^~q_R → q χ₁⁰ (100%)
• MSSM + U(1)′ ---> Z′ ---> ^~q_R → q χ₁⁰ (85%) and ^~q_R → q Z′ (15%)

080925 SUS-08-05 "SUSY search with dijet events" ... Their analysis SUS-08-05 "SUSY search with dijet events" has been approved in yesterdays approval meeting.

080925 LPC αT Team TAMU: Teruki Kamon (t-kamon@tamu.edu) David Toback (toback@tamu.edu) Michael Weinberger (mlw@fnal.gov) Jonathan Asaadi (jasaadi@physics.tamu.edu) Rockefeller: Anwar Bhatti (bhatti@fnalgov) Jim? U of Iowa: Jane Nachtman (nachtman@fnal.gov) Taylan Yetkin (taylan-yetkin@uiowa.edu) Elif Asli Albayrak (elif-albayrak@uiowa.edu) Kwangzoo Chung (kchung@fnal.gov) .. at CERN Burak Bilki (burak-bilki@uiowa.edu) METU: Kadir Ocalan (kadir.ocalan@cern.ch) .. at CERN and Turkey Murat Guler (Ali.Murat.Guler@cern.ch) .. at CERN and Turkey

11:00 Update on UED search in 4 lepton channels (20')  Pedro Ribeiro 
11:25 SUSY searches with dijet events and exstension to three- and four-jet events (20')  Tanja Rommerskirchen 
11:50 SUSY Background: Z->mumu to estimate Z->invisible (20')  Gheorghe Lungu 
12:15 Predicting Z -> ll + jets fake MET using Jets-Z balance for SUSY (20')  Konstantinos Theofilatos
12:40 Update on mSUGRA search in mu+jets+MET channel using cuts and BDTs (20')  

080910 First beam at the LHC (TK's travel: 9/08~9/13) [announcement] CMS LHC First Beam Event (Schedule) US LHC First Beam Event (1:30AM~4AM FNAL time!!!)

Shift Structure for Sep 1 ~ Dec 15 ... Experts ... Collabation at large → DQM shifts at P5, DQM shifts at remote

15:00 News (10')
        New CMS meeting structure      
15:10 SUSY Signal Production in 2.1 (15') Sezen/Filip 
        10 TeV ("14 TeV" samples are NOT in plan unless we have a very strong argument.)
        The production has begun with backgrounds.
        We are still discussion about the signal samples by official or private.       
15:30 Validation of 2.1 Production - from SUSY perspective (15')  Christian Sander
        Subscrive hyper-news for any updates
        Own SUSY validation - Plots are produced with code developed for CSA07-skim validation 
            http://cmssw.cvs.cern.ch/cgi-bin/cmssw.cgi/UserCode/SUSYBSMsandbox/SUSYBSMAnalysis/HSusyAnalyzer
        More volunteers! (see TO-DO list on Page 14)
15:50 Dijet analysis update (20')  Markus Stoye 
        Pre-approval of SUS-08-005
        The pre-approval meeting will take place on Tue, Sep 9, 2008 during a special SUSY meeting.

- Timing issues for HB wedges, Igor/Jordan
- HPD stability vs time from LED data, Luis
- Faulty channels and logical map issues, Dick et al
- Update on ZDC's, Michael, Steve, Jason, Jeremy, etc.
- Magnet ON data analysis
    * HPD noise, Dick et al
    * Electronics noise, Steve et al 

TAMU Student Projects in Summer 2008: 1) SUSY-PAT validation/implementation with τ ... Jonathan, Alfredo, CNN, AS, DT, TK; Seema (TATA/LPC); Ulrich and Yoshi 2) CRUZET shifts/data validation ... Jonathan, Alfredo, TK; Shuichi (Maryland); Ming, Anwar (Rockefeller); with HCAL-ROC group CRUZET2 shifts ... Jonathan CRUZET3 shifts/HPD noise filter ... Alfredo [CRUZET3 shifts] CRUZET4 shifts/HPD noise filter ... Jonathan [CRUZET4 shifts] [shifts] 3) tau ID ... Alfredo, CNN, AS, TK; with UC Davis group

 - Magnet Test Results/Schedule for this week:         
       * Monday, Aug.25    - 500A
       * Tuesday, Aug.26   - 500A
       * Wednesday, Aug.27 - 0.6T (3100A)
       * Thursday, Aug.28  - 2T + slow dump
       * Friday, Aug.29    - 3T (for about 2 hours) + fast dump

17:30 Studies of Conversion Tagging in Taus (20')  Anton Anastassov 
17:50 Porting the MVA based analysis inside the TauReco FrameWork (20')  Evan Klose Friis 
18:10 Status of the DQM for the offline Validation (20')  Ricardo Vasquez Sierra 

16:00 SUSY validation of 2.1.2 release (10') Christian Sander 
16:10 Update on QCD smearing function (20')  Charles Jess Riedel 
16:30 Update on SUSY dijet analysis (20')  Henning Flaecher 
16:50 Update on Z->invisible background from Z->mumu (20')  Gheorghe Lungu 
17:10 Z candle status report (20')  

- News and plan.
   - CRUZET4 - August 18-25
        - PX and EE are in.
        - Jet trigger (L1 bit 28) 
          in addition to MUON (0-6) and HCAL noist trigger (17)    7324(#)  
        - HCAL configuration    7297(#)  
             HFM, HEM were off -          Run xxxxx-58537
             HFM, HEM, HFP were off-      Run 58543-58738 (last run) 
             Zero suppression turned ON - Run 58604-58738 (last run)

   - schedule        7327(#)  
        - Magnet Test Schedule for this week:         
             * Monday, Aug.25    - 300A
             * Tuesday, Aug.26   - 2000A
             * Wednesday, Aug.27 - 1T
             * Thursday, Aug.28  - 2T
             * Friday, Aug.29    - 3T, then fast discharge
        - global run
             * Aug.25 - 28: no global running, local runs during magnet tests in evening
             * Aug.29/30: overnight 3T global run (24h)
             * Sept. 3,4: MWGR (9am-11pm)
             * Sept: 8,9,10: global run through to beams
        --> Pajama party 
- Status of analysis
o  ROC
    - We had CRUZET4 shifts last week.
    - start using event display Frog      7334(#)  
    - released CRUZET3 large MET skimmed files (reco, frog.vis) to LPC    7334(#)  

    - Presentation:
         "Large MET events in CRUZET3"    Alfredo at  MET working group meeting, 19-Aug-2008  
         "Large MET events in CRUZEt3"    Shuichi at HCAL Run meeting, 20-Aug-2008 
         "Large MET events in CRUZET3 (update)"  Alfredo at Jet + MET Topologu group meeting, 26-August-2008 

Talks:
o Large MET events in CRUZET3    Alfredo    slides 

New Tasks / Help needed:

o Trigger study and tracking of run configuration
o Evo operation (during shift- chat etc.  How to use it effectively?)
o Data processing and bookkeeping (skim/pick/reco etc)
o Muon signal analysis (muon hit RBX?)

1) Romulus Godang - BH Studies using CATFISH - working to implement and validate CATFISH in CMSSW 2_1_x.
2) Elif Asli Albayrak - QCD Smearing Study: Status Report - start using a method which does not depend on MC Truth.
3) Alfredo Gurrola - Large MET RBX Noise Events in CRUZET3 Data - characterizing on "flatness" of RBX noise.
4) Teruki/Anwar - Overview of Tasks 

CRUZET-4 is ongoing (started last week), and use of CMSSW_2_1_X, which has all the updates developed in the past few months, 
has been restored after a panic about the StorageManager required a down-grade to CMSSW_2_0_X.

YE+1, 2, and 3 were closed last week, YE-1, 2, and 3 should be closing now (I think 1 is done).

This week, there will be some magnet tests at night.
    Monday:     300 A
    Tuesday:   2000 A
    Wednesday:  1 T
    Thursday:   2 T
    Friday:     3 T

As you probably know, the LHC promises to circulate a single beam on September 10 (probably 450 GeV).  A few weeks ago, 
a beam was injected through ALICE to IP3; I think a beam in the other direction, through LHCb is next (may already be 
happening).

CMS Week is September 22-26.

There was an old, vaguely-worded deadline for the LHC on September 21. It has probably been superceded by the September 10 
single-beam milestone.

TAMU has an EMU shift from September 22 through 29, from 4PM-midnight CERN-time, and then owl shifts October 6-13 and 
November 3-10. 

15:00 News (10')  Rick Cavanaugh (FNAL/UIC), Patrick Janot (CERN)  
15:10 A look at CRUZET data with PFlow (20')  Jean-Laurent Agram (Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse-Strasbourg)  
15:30 Update on CRUZET Tau Analysis (20')  Konstantinos Petridis (Imperial College London)  
15:50 Update on Hadron Calibration (20')  Jamie Ballin (Imperial College)  
16:10 Update on ECAL clusters Calibration (10')  Jonathan Biteau 
16:20 Update on Electron Reco Implementation (20')  Daniele Benedetti (Northeastern) 
17:40 PF Tau Validation of 21X (20')  Ricardo Vasquez Sierra (UC Davis)  
17:00 PF Validation & Framework Status Report (20')  Leonhard Neuhaus 
17:20 EWK PAG / PF&Tau POG Integration: Z to ditau (muon + tau channel) (20')  Alfredo Gurrola (TAMU)




[Comment] Check the significance of 

the impact parameter.




[Comment] Events in the 2-probg bin 

will be dominated by "misidentified" 

3-prong tau's.


[Comment] You are using PFtau

and PFgamma. Why don't you 

use PFjet instead of CALOjet 

for the zero-jet requirement? 

[Answer] PFjet will be better in 

its performance. But we try to 

be away from the analysis using

the entire "PF" objects in the 

earlier stage of CMS.



17:40 Particle Flow and PAT Status Report (15') Rick Cavanaugh (FNAL/UIC) , Colin Bernet (CNRS/LLR)

Discussion of HV scheme ...
Zero-suppression turns on.
We need a report from DAY shift on a way to find a quality of data.
Two graduate students from Wayne State are going to take the CRUZET4 shifts in this weekend.

• All US CMS (11:00 FNAL/SunRise) [indico]
  ... Review of presentations in Washington, D.C. went last week regarding the help fund, etc.
  ... Great progress with the LHC beam injection tests and sector commissioning (Sandor Feher)
• Meeting with Shuichi and Anwar (10:30am) on HCAL noise
• Jonathan, moving out from a dorm to a house today.

• Meeting with Taylan and Elif (1pm) on QCD jet smearing function
• Lunch meeting with Mike Weinberger (12pm) on CMS SLHC tracker primitives
• tau Coffee (17:00 GVA) [indico]
• All-hadronic SUSY (8:30am FNAL/WH10NW) [indico] [indico(screen)] [EVO]
  [Jim, Anwar, Elif, Taylan, Teruki, Jonathan at LPC]

  Elif ... First presentation of PLAN to work on QCD smearing function
  Question on Slide 8 → we have to understand what ATLAS did.
  
  ---
  Vladimir ... Using "inverted impact parameter" sample for MET
              (Comment: check a talk at SUSY leptonic on July 17)
  ---
  Jonathan ... First official presentation of Layer1 tau in SUSY-PAT
  
  
  ---
  Tanja ... Forward vs. central in αT
  ---
  Torben ... ABCD method for QCD background estimate - check Slide 8
  ---
  LM9 -- trilepton signal ... need a high luminosity
  LM5 -- h → bb
  

HCAL: Before the LHC operation starts, we assume that the HCAL (HB,HE,HF) channels would be calibrated within 5% of its final value. This is achieved with the pre-calibration measurements already made with the wire sourcing.

10 pb-1: Just as an exercise, we have added a 10% shift in the gains. This is not expected, but will allow us to test the available machinery for calibration. The main calibration channels to be tested here are the phi-asymmetry and the 1 track.

100 pb-1: The gains have a 5% smearing. The purpose will be to have a more detailed calibration that includes di-jets, gamma+Jets and Z+Jets.