Minutes of the UVic testbeam meeting, Wed. April 30, 2003
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 Michel presented a draft plan for the group, which was developed by
 Michel, Rob, Richard and Randy. It should serve as a guideline for
 what each of us will be doing in the next while. These guidelines are
 not fixed, but a suggestion of what could be done:


 Long-term schedule:
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 Tayfun and Tamara: Their thesis work will be based on testbeam
               analysis. In order to provide them with well defined
               (and separated) topics for their analysis, it was
               suggested that Tayfun could concentrated on analyzing
               the electromagnetic aspects of the testbeam data while
               Tamara could concentrate on the hadronic processes.

 Ian Gable will be working with us again over the summer.  Together
               with Michel, a new version of the TBRootAna package can
               be developed, and possibly later an interface to MC
               packages.

 Margret and Naoko are encouraged to pursue testbeam analyses of their
               own choice.  Margret will also be involved in ntuple
               production while Naoko should continue her software
               maintenance (with Rob) and web-documentation. It was
               acknowledged, that Naoko's software work is a major
               piece of work and will continue to take up the major
               fraction of her time.

 Rob is in charge of the LAr Testbeam software coordination now.  He
               is investigating formats for next year's datataking and
               will continue to contribute work on the signal
               reconstruction.

 Michel will continue the upkeep of the web-pages and chair the
               meetings.  He will also be looking at identifiers, keys
               and other software items as well as working on a
               geometry service.

 It was mentioned that A.Kiryunin has a G4 version of the combined
 testbeam running. None of us have looked at it yet, but we believe
 that he has a web-site with lots of information on this and with
 packages that can be checked out.



 Schedule to the immediate future:
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 Tamara and Tayfun have to re-familiarize themselves with the testbeam
               analysis routines. This means starting with a fresh
               version of Athena (6.0.3.) and running an Athena job,
               producing an Ntuple with LArTBCombinedNtup.  They
               should look into the Ntuple and see what it contains
               for the combined testbeam.

               They should also look at some pre-2002 data, using
               TBRootAna.

               While looking at the contents of the ntuple it is
               important to become familiar with all aspects of the
               geometry of the testbeam setup.


 Naoko is currently busy with the preparation of talks for the ATLAS
               physics workshop in Athens and for the CAP conference.
               She is also involved in coordinating the new Athena
               version 6.1.0.


 Margret is working on analyzing shower shapes. She gave a presentation
               on the longitutinal shower development, which can be studied
               with the material runs taken during the combined testbeam.
               Slides of her talk are on our web site.


 The meeting ran out of time at this point, so the next points on the
 agenda (Michel's report on MPI analyses and Naoko's report on out-of-phase
 events) had to be postponed until next week.

 You can have a look at the MPI analysis presented by Hendrik Bartko at the
 last LAr week at
 http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a03712