Minutes of Meeting 15/1/08

Our first regular meeting was held at 4pm on Monday. The main points were:

• Mark's Plots (see previous entry): number of jets and mass of the Z as as function of K_T cut. Things look sensible in the limits, but he has discovered a bug that can double count if more than one MC particle is in the same jet (this gives the peaks at m_Z=180 GeV etc.)
• Energy: it was agreed to make future samples with c.of.m energy 250 GeV as specified in the benchmarks
• Effort: Mark is working full time, with support from Clare. Victoria and Robervaal are working on other things at the moment but should start ramping up soon. Hajrah is coming up to speed, and will start looking at muon ID. There is also an undergraduate at Bristol who will look at electron ID, and an undergraduate at Edinburgh who will be asked to make a short presentation soon.
• Next Steps: Mark's priority will be to assemble all of the machinery for a crude analysis, so we can see where the work needs to be done in tuning etc.
• Future Meetings: We will switch to 1pm on Mondays in future. Next meeting is next week.