1. 1 st RPC General Meeting 29 March 2011 Pigi Paolucci RPC project status

2. RPC General Meeting 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 2 RPC General Meeting will be held once per month, CMS week included. In total we have 12 GM per year GM is for a large audience (not too technical talks) GM organization: Introduction about the Project Coordinator reports (TC-RC-DPG-Upgrade): To give an overview to the collaboration To focus our attention on “critical issues” To underline priorities and manpower requests To present interesting results 2-3 specific talks will be proposed by coordinators.

3. RPC project – new organization Organization Chart has been defined and it will be endorsed today at IB. Thanks to all the people involved in the discussion and to who will be part of the chart. Management Board and IB will support all the people involved in the organization as much as they can. 29/03/11 3 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci

4. 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 4 Project Manager P. Paolucci M. Tytgat & G. Pugliese Project Manager P. Paolucci M. Tytgat & G. Pugliese Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowski C. Carillo DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowski C. Carillo Upgrade G. Iaselli A.Sharma S. Buontempo Upgrade G. Iaselli A.Sharma S. Buontempo Institution Board L. Litov Resource manager P. Paolucci ad interim Steering committee W. Van Doninck, M. Maggi H. Hoorani, A. Colaleo, A. Sharma (PM+DPM+RC+TC+DPG) Conference Committee S. Park, B. Pavlov Conference Committee S. Park, B. Pavlov Editorial board S. Qian, M. Abbrescia S. Bianco Editorial board S. Qian, M. Abbrescia S. Bianco Tech. Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov Tech. Coordination S. Buontempo A. Dimitrov RPC organization chart 2011-2012

5. DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowsk C. Carillo DPG D. Piccolo K. Bunkowsk C. Carillo Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis Run Coordinator L. Benussi H. Shahzad N. Zaganidis SoftwareValidation/ Data Certification J. Gho SoftwareValidation/ Data Certification J. Gho Detector perfomance C. Calabria Detector perfomance C. Calabria Online K. Bunkowski Online K. Bunkowski Offline D. Piccolo Offline D. Piccolo Detector & trigger analysis C. Carillo Detector & trigger analysis C. Carillo Phys Valid Tool S. Costantini Phys Valid Tool S. Costantini Detector impact on trigger Resp. Detector impact on trigger Resp. Calibration Streams M. Maggi Calibration Streams M. Maggi WBM U. Berzano WBM U. Berzano Run Quality Tae Jeong Run Quality Tae Jeong Noise tools S. Costantini Noise tools S. Costantini DQM A. Cimmino DQM A. Cimmino Skims S. Tupputi Skims S. Tupputi Simulation B. Pavlov Simulation B. Pavlov Local Reco C. Carrillo Local Reco C. Carrillo DataBase M. Maggi DataBase M. Maggi Trigger DB M Szlepper Trigger DB M Szlepper Configuration K. Bunkowski DCS Detector DB Manpower needed Not covered Covered 8/02/2011 5 RPC organization chart Non event data P. Petkov Non event data P. Petkov DPG-POG Min Suk Kim DPG-POG Min Suk Kim Upgrade Resp. Upgrade Resp.

6. Conference and papers 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 6 RPC Editorial Board is now in charge for all the notes, conference notes/papers and papers Only the approved papers will be considered RPC papers Author list will be provided by the RPC Institution board to the editorial board. RPC member can decide to sign or not every single paper. RPC Conference Committee is in charge for the talk/poster proposal and to choose the nominated speakers. RPC abstract sent directly to the conference will be “cancelled” by the CC.

7. Organization chart 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 7 I’m glad to have many phd student and post-doc in the LV3 organization chart. Most of them are in the DPG and are participating to the data analysis of the RPC and Trigger performances Bari, Ghent, Korea, Sofia, Uniandes……. Let me underline the perfect integration of the 6 Korean Phd and post-doc. 3 of them are already in the DPG chart.

8. Main goals – 2011-2012 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 8 Main scientific goals are: In priority order 1. High efficiency of the RPC data takingTC/RC 2. Assure an high quality of the dataDPG/RC 3. Clear set of results (performance and studies)DPG 4. Build the RE4 upgrade systemTC/Up 5. Enlarge the collaborationMB/IB 6. Manpower balance & budget consolidationMB/IB but this is not enough for us and we have to do more and more to improve our project….(see next slide)

9. More goals…… 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 9 Study and underline all the aspects in which the RPC could play a central role in CMS: Alternative reconstruction algorithms Peculiar Trigger regions How recover DT/CSC temporary inefficiency using RPC More goals - we really need to work on: 1. New institutions and more young physicists 2. Help young people in maturating in the proper way 3. Move toward a “muon system” and “muon services” 4. Use the central CMS structures/group as much as we can

10. Possible strategies 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 10 New institutions can be attracted by the 2 nd step of the upgrade (2017-2018) at high eta region. They should join RPC project previously to learn about CMS and the muon system. How can we help young people in maturating: 1. Visibility and responsibilities 2. Work on different aspects of the project and not only one (detector, DAQ, trigger and data analysis) 3. Collaborate more and more with the CMS central projects 4. Conferences and papers 5. Work in group and not alone – be part of some task force

11. 2011-2012 data taking It’s now time to work, we have 2 long years of data taking Shifters and experts have a delicate role and we have to support them as much as we can: Improve our tools and instructions Organize training period for everybody Support them during the “crucial” period Operation Manager and Data Manager shifts are now counted as central shift. Training period is mandatory to get the OM/DM driver license from the Run coordination. 29/03/11 11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci

12. 2010 Data analysis We already have a lot of data to analyze and to publish: Muon performance paper is already under development: Some results have been already approved (efficiency) We have to understand better other sections (noise) Editorial board it is now ready to work Conference talks and posters have to be defined in advance (at leas 2-3 months) Instrumentation Conferences are a very good training center for phd students and not only. 29/03/11 12 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci

13. Scientific results to underline 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 13 2010 results: many already approved in March Noise studies: linear dependence rate.vs. luminosity FEB configuration: great improvements (Anton, Karol, Philip) HV scan: great success of the RPC collaboration See next presentations

14. Steering Committee 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 14 Chairman: Hafeez Hoorani Members: A. Colaleo, M. Maggi, A. Sharma, W. Van Doninck The RPC management board will consult the SC to get help on very urgent and crucial tasks and to solve delicate scientific issues. The experience of the 5 senior physicists members is a guarantee for the RPC project and will help us a lot in the future.

15. HV scan – sociological exercise 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 15 Steering Committee was consulted to give us guidelines about the “calculation” of the high voltage working point of every single chamber. The answer was fast, very professional and clear. Let me thanks a lot the committee. Run and Technical coordination did a great job in organizing the data taking and in following it hour by hour (pressure correction, threshold setting….) DPG team was able to provide results in real time (weekend) Info and results circulated in the best way A first exercise of cross-coordination and coherent work in the RPC project

16. HV scan results 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 16 Marcello, Cesare and Juan Pablo are now working and the data analysis in the DPG team. Many chambers were already working in plateau during the 2010 data taking but not all (see Marcello talk) 2011-2010 comparison Working points Cluster size check

17. Noise studies 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 17 Noise group (Silvia, Mihee and Mircho) is doing a great job and it was not so easy to clean the data in order to spot the linear increase

18. FEB configuration 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 18 There was a big effort to improve the FEB configuration in few weeks !! Now parameters are automatically loaded by the database The procedure is 5-6 times faster thanks to a firmware review A WEB GUI allow us to write/read the configuration parameters (different views) HERE THE TEAM Filip - main developer of the C++ part, Karol - main developer of the Java part, also responsible for configurationDB Anton - main tester of the product, main provider of ideas Krzysztof - main developer of the Trigger Supervisor Sajjad Asghar - coordinator of the DB activities. Imran and Atif - developers of the GUI. Let me thanks Hafeez and the Pakistan database experts to join the group.

19. 2010 results 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 19 Many results obtained by the DPG group have been approved by the RPC collaboration (efficiency, cluster size, spatial resolution, muography…)

20. 2011 Agenda 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 20 General Meeting:Thursday at 9:30(1 per month) DPG/RC:Thursday at 9:30(3 per month) Tech coordination:Monday at 9:00(weekly) Upgrade: Tuesday at 9:00(weekly) Management:Wed at 10:00(weekly) restricted ISR meeting:Monday 14:00(weekly) technical 904 meeting:Wed 10:00(weekly) technical GEM meeting: Tuesday 14:00(weekly) technical Upgrade RE4 Workshopto be decided Upgrade High Eta Workshopto be decided Let me ask the 4 coordinators and deputies to actively participate to the 3 weekly meetings. Unique project

21. Construction and docDB 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 21 I would like to remind you we have hired a DB expert (Daniela) to work for 3 months on the construction DB. She is doing a very good job but is now stuck for lack of information and collaboration. Question: if the construction DB is not on top of our list of priority I will close to task Anton is supervising both the construction DB and docDB RPC docDB is almost ready. We need to clean our twiki page http://dev-cms.web.cern.ch/

22. RPC “social” dinner tonight at 20:30 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 22 La Villa du Lac – Divonne Les Bains It is just in front le lake Sorry but not more than the 34 people already registered From Highway: 1. after the “douane” go straight 2. turn right at the second roundabout 3. After 400 meter there is a roundabout, go straight 4. The Hotel is on the left From GEX: 1. Follow “highway to Geneve” indication. 2. Then indication to “promenade” or “Villa du Lac”

23. Conclusions 29/03/11 1th RPC General Meeting - Pigi Paolucci 23 RPC project is in good shape Two years of data taking + upgrade is not an easy job for a small collaboration. We are 80 people Let me stress again that we have to improve and stabilize the present project and then eventually move manpower to the upgrade 2013-2014. Right now is still not the case !! It is important to work in a coherent way as we did for the HV scan and FEB configuration See you this evening