1. CSC Trigger Meeting Summary
Cast of many

2. CSC Trigger Meeting Agenda
Status of U. Florida slice test
o Status of Tests (Acosta)
o Status of cosmic ray test stand (Stoeck)
Progress with Track Finder hardware/firmware
o SP Latency, design changes, and DT/CSC transition card (Uvarov)
o SP-to-MS testing (Matveev)
Progress with Peripheral Crate hardware/firmware
o Brief TMB, RAT, MPC-mezz updates (Hauser)
Simulation and test beam results
o Simulation results (Drozdetski)
o Test beam results (Hauser or Zheng)
Software developments
o Track-Finder GUI (Gray)
Future schedules and planning
o Production planning for 2004: MPC, CCB, TF, Sorter, etc. (All)
o Slice test planning for (All)

3. CSC Trigger Meeting Highlights
Cosmic ray stand at UF working with test beam 2003 setup to 1st order
Sector Processor nearing completion
(various developments)
Chain test at Rice forseen with trigger data flow from TMB FIFOs to MPC to SP to MS
Much of hardware, software team there
Detailed discussion of goals for CERN structured beam test and SX5 slice tests

4. CERN Structured Beam Tests 2004
Base goals:
Set up pre-production system esp. CCB and repeat prior tests
Use new software package
Use “fixed” SP system
These are important validation for full production
Additional top goals:
Add an ME1/2 chamber in order to have 3-chamber test (for SP)
Mount an endcap RPC on ME1/2, connect Link board to RAT, record RPC data in TMB
Swap ME1/1 in for ME2/1 and read out its data
Add a small block of iron between (15x15x30 cm?)
Goals are ambitious for June.
Use September test beam cycle to finish anything not accomplished in June.

5. Slice Test at SX5: CSC Plans for 2004
Goals
Exercise peripheral crates, other systems at SX5
Run up to 2 full sectors so we can use SP to find cosmic ray tracks
Provide “test bench” to prod CMS DAQ team to confront reality?
Discussions of + versus – endcap
My own opinion: make use of the counting room, run shorter or longer optical cables from there depending on which endcap is preferable