Minutes: E895 meeting at LBNL, 20th January 1998

GR:     This is our first meeting of the New Year. We will continue to meet
        on Tuesday, 1:30 pm in the Director's conference room, if available.

        The minutes have been neglected or its circulation delayed during the
        last few months. After hearing the views of the participants, I am
        convinced the minutes are of some value to the collaboration.
        Therefore, I have decided to implement a new format which hopefully
        will not burden the transcriber and useful information can be
        disseminated in a timely manner. The new format consists of an
        executive summary and action items. The mundane operations of our
        group will not be reported. I have volunteered for the month of
        January.


        Data Processing:

        Pentium farms have switched over to 6 A GeV central trigger data.
        Tape 40 is currently being analysed using the latest software
        (2D hitfinder version 1.20, BFT v 4.40)

        PDSF 4 A GeV Au+Au central trigger data (no MUSIC output) using
        2D v1.20,BFT v4.4.

        Data Analysis:
        DB: K0 invariant mass peak observed in 4 A GeV data. Starting
        efficiency studies. Chris observed peaking structure in DCA
        histrogram. The 2 A GeV data (without packing) show no peaks (scale
        1cm=1000 bins). Is this a packing problem ?

        HL: Showed mixed event analysis for efficiency studies of flow.

        Action Items:

        1)      Identify tapes at 4 A GeV and 8 A GeV for comparison studies
                as suggested at the collaboration meeting. Contact Mike for
                input. Postscript: Tapes 89,90 (8 A GeV) and 217,218,219
                (4 A GeV) have been nominated. These tapes will be queued
                for processing on the Pentiums. Mike do you have a preference?

        2)      Get MUSIC code into CVS Pass 1, asap

        3)      Check with Chris about the DCA problem



Prepared: G. Rai