NA49 Collaboration Meeting

CERN

March 28 - April 23,2003


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 NA49 collaboration meeting agenda   (15/4/2004)
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 April 19 Monday;
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    Arival

 April 20 Tuesday:
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 9:00-10:00


    registration at ECT*:
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    ECT* Strada delle Tabarelle N. 286
    38050 Villazzano (Trento), I
    phone: +39-0461-314730
    fax:   +39-0461-935007 


 10:00-12:00

    General:
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      welcome, news, agenda                         (Seyboth) (20 min)
 
      qm2004 and na49                               (Botje) (30 min)

 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 11:30-12:30: 

      status of the NA49 simulation                 (Blume) (15 min)

      copying raw data to CASTOR                    (Kliemant/Lungwitz) (20 min)      
  
      processing  20,30 GeV semicentral PbPb data   (Gazdzicki) (15 min)

      beam charge for Si and C at 40 GeV            (Fodor) (15 min)

 12:30-14:00 Lunch at the ECT* canteen

 14:00-16:00:

    p+p, p+A results:
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      pentaquarks - overview of world data          (Barna) (60 min)
                    status of NA49 analysis

      low momentum protons in pA (draft)            (Sikler) (40 min)

 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

 16:30-18:30

      p+A analysis plans in Karlsruhe               (Meurer)  (15 min)

      news from IPJ Warsaw                          (Bialkowska/Boimska)  (20 min)

      + ... ?

    A+A physics talk :
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      Quark coalescence and entropy conservation at
                  SPS energies                        (Levai) (40 min)

    A+A results (inclusive spectra):
    --------------------------------

      L/Lbar at 40-158 GeV - revised paper            (Mischke,Blume) (20 min)

      dE/dx calibration at 20/30                      (van Leeuwen) (30 min)

      pi/K at 20/30 GeV -  draft                    (Gazdzicki/van Leeuwen) (15 min)

 19:30 Buffet-dinner at ECT*


 April 21 Wednesday:
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 9:00-11:00

      phi at 20-158 GeV - draft               (Friese) (40 min)

      K* at 20-158 GeV                        (Korus) (20 min)

      L* status                               (Yoo) (20 min)      

      d,p at 20,30 GeV (TOF) - draft          (Kolesnikov/Melkumov) (20 min)

      dbar ( 158 GeV high stat. run)          (Kolesnikov/Melkumov) (20 min)

 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 11:30-12:30:

      pbar/p (TOF) energy,centrality dependence   (Kolesnikov/Melkumov) (25 min)

      Omega at 40/158 GeV - draft                 (Blume/Mitrovski) (30 min) 

 12:30-14:00 Lunch at the ECT* canteen   

 14:00-16:00:

      upper limit for open charm                  (Botje) (15 min)

      Xi at 40 GeV - draft                        (Meurer) (15 min)

      L/Lbar at 20/30 GeV                         (Richard) (20 min)

      Xi/Omega at 20-158 GeV                      (Mitrovski) (10 min)

      energy dependence of mT spectra             (Blume) (30 min)

 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

 16:30-19:00:

      kaons in C, Si at 40/158 GeV                (Kliemant) (20 min) 

      pions in C, Si at 40/158 GeV                (Lungwitz) (20 min) 

      pions, kaons in min. bias. Pb+Pb at 40/158 GeV  (Dinkelaker) (45 min) 

      CC, SiSi at 158 GeV final Lambda/Antilambda spectra    (Kraus) (20 min)

      C, Si at 158 GeV - system size dependence paper        (Hoehne) (20 min)

      calculations within percolation model                  (Hoehne) (20 min)


 19:30 Dinner at the La Baracca restaurant (close to ECT*)


 April 22 Thursday:
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 9:00-11:00:

    A+A results (correlations/fluctuations):
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      HBT - track cuts, comparison to CERES               (Kniege) (30 min)
  
      HBT - momentum resolution                           (Flierl) (10 min)       

      HBT - centrality dependence                         (Alt) (15 min)

      HBT - publication draft                             (Flierl) (15 min)

      Lambda anisotropic flow                             (Stefanek) (30 min)  

      pT fluctuations - revised paper              (Grebieszkow/Gazdzicki) (15 min)


 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 11:30-12:30:

      balance function - draft                        (Christakoglou) (20 min)

      charge fluctuations - draft                     (Zaranek/Gazdzicki) (15 min)

      multiplicity fluctuations                       (Rybczynski) (40 min)  


 12:30-14:00 Lunch at the ECT* canteen

 14:00-16:00:

      energy dep. of pT fluctuations               (Grebieszkow/Gazdzicki) (15 min)

      critical fluctuations                        (Fotis/Nikos) (30 min)

      particle ratio fluctuations                  (Roland/Gazdzicki) (30 min) 

      multiplicity, p_t/multiplicity and p_t/p_t long range 
      correlation analysis in PbPb collisions at 158 AGeV   (Naomenko) (30 min)
    
 16:00-16:30  Coffee Break
     
 16:30-18:30:

    NA49 council meeting
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     finances
     organisation: spokesperson, deputies
     transfer of detector to NA49'
     AOB  

 20:30 Collaboration dinner (downtown)


 April 23 Friday:
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 9:00-11:00:

    NA49':
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      general news                              (Gazdzicki,Vesztergombi)   (30 min)

    Physics ideas:
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      energy scan (A+A, p+A, p+p)               (Gazdzicki + ...) (20 min)

      high p_T                                  (Vesztergombi + ...) (20 min)

 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 11:30-12:30:

    Detector upgrades:
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      status of the NA49 software/hardware                 (Betev) (20 min)

      minimal upgrades/repairs needed to run in 2006(7)    (Betev) (20 min)

      repair of MTPC sectors                               (Renfordt) (15 min)

 12:30-14:00 Lunch at the ECT* canteen

 14:00-16:00:
 
      possible increase of event rate:
       -general requirements                          (Renfordt) (30 min)
       -maximum traget thickness                      (Flierl) (10 min)
       -test set up and results in Budapest           (Fodor) (30 min)
       -development of new CT board                   (Fodor/Vesztergombi) (20 min)      
       -read-out control unit, and DAQ                (Roehrich) (30 min) 

 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

 16:30-18:30:

      astrophysics needs                              (Hungs) (20 min) 

      spectator detector                              (Stroebele/Renfordt) (10 min)

      photon calorimeter                              (Vesztergombi) (20 min)

      ideas on improvement of acceptance              (Blume) (20 min)
 

      preparation for the Villars meeting             (Gazdzicki) (20 min) 

      preparation of the proposal                     (20 min) 


 19:30 Dinner at the La Barraca or downtown in a pizzeria 


 April 24 Saturday:
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    Departure

    or

    Start of the Workshop:
    ``Tracing deconfinement in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions''
    (see the workshop agenda)  
    

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