Difference between revisions of "PID July 2007 Notes"

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Summaries of talks presented at the workshop are available on the portal and/or linked from the agenda page on the Wiki. Below is a summary of action items from the workshop. Action items were grouped into several broad categories

BCAL

• Complete analysis of the test beam data and present at October collaboration meeting. (Regina/Athens/Alex) Particular attention should be paid to:
  • understanding the large floor term in the resolution that appears at high energy and forward angle.
  • understanding the light output and attenuation length of the fibers for the sake of setting realistic thresholds in reconstruction.
• Demonstrate that SiPMs meet the necessary performance benchmarks. (Regina)
• Quantify the number of TDC channels needed in BCAL (Zisis)
• Explore the possibility of doing dE/dx in the BCAL (Zisis)
• Determine need for BCAL signal splitting and discriminators