Minutes Tuesday, June 24, 2014

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Agenda

• Paul's Update https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/images/c/ca/Presentation1.pdf
• SIDIS Rate Study by Zhihong: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2c84sriwsdvl4z/SIDIS_Rates.pdf

Present:
Rakitha, JP, Zhihong, Paul, Nickie, Mehdi, Michael, and Richard

Minutes

• The preCDR status,
  • Will submit by next Monday to Bob and Mont.
• We will receive Hall A TAC comments for new SoLID proposals
  • One main comment about the EMC proposal : Ca48 Neutron bkg
• Update the collaboration list before the director's review
  • Sent out emails institutions to update collaborators in that institution.
• Paul's update on Simulation
  • Discussed the possibility of reducing the target length, where pions go down quadratically and DIS goes down linearly with the target length
  • Possible changes that we could do before the director's review
    • Optimizing the Cerenkov detector system : add lead before the Cerenkov mirrors
    • Paul and JP can come up with a list of things that we could do before the directors review
  • It is also worth looking at the EM background variation with target length
• CLEO magnet visit, People who traveled to visit the magnet are finalizing the report
• Zhihong's update on the Pi0 background on the SPD, see SoLID elog 89