E895 Meeting Minutes                 25 February, 1997

Attending:  Gulshan Rai, Nathan Stone, Dieter Best, Heng Liu, Jim Draper,
	    Bill Caskey, Dan Cebra, Jerry Chance, Arun Das, Hans Georg Ritter

Teleconference joined by Mike Lisa and Mark Gilkes.

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News & Status Report:

HGR -   Marvin's strangeness paper is ready and will be distributed next week.
    -   Jerry's paper will come out mid March according to PRL's Web page.

GR  -   Tim ask me for a nomination from E895 for the Big Sky meeting. Mike,
	are you interested in it ?

ML  -   ya. If you can send me the detailed information, I'll take a look.

GR  -   We welcome Arun Das here. He is the post-doc from OSU. He will tell
	us his interest in E895.

AD  -   give presentation about event-by-event analysis. The method to
	separate normal events and exotic events is very efficient at SPS
	energies, we have to do the efficiency study before applying it to
	E895 data.

DC  -   We are looking at the finer detail of laser events. The fiducial
	marks are pretty close to the previous survey result.
    -   We have to apply distortion correction to the laser events.

NS  -   Hall probe readings are transformed to magnetic field. At one point,
	the probe was broken. At another point, because of the tolerance
	constraint the probe reading is erratic.

GR  -   The effect is real and the field change is about 0.1%.

NS  -   The distribution area is set up and it got updated from CVS
	periodically. The documentation is on E895 Web page. Another utility
	directory is being set up.

DB  -   give a brief summary of last week's PDSF user meeting. We have access
	to the mass storage system on NERSC.
    -   Exabyte stacker is mounted on SUN. DLT stacker will be moved to HP
	side.
    -   I'm updating the tracker program.
    -   I am working on the rqmd_to_geant routine. My cluster routine is
	only in configuration space.

GR  -   From the PDSF user meeting, we had the green light to use most of
	them in the next few months.
    -   Global t0 issue. Using beam which is aligned to the surveyed V2
	hole gives me different result from the top edge method. Except
	this t0, all other calibration parameters are ready.

DC  -   Look at the reconstructed vertex to see if it moves.

JD  -   give an update on laser calibration. It's ready to tabulate the
	drift velocity.

GR  -   Two distortion tables are in CVS repository.

HL  -   showed the difference between two hit_finders. The reason that one
	found less hits is that Marvin inserted some quality checks which
	cut off most of the deconvoluted hits. This doesn't affect the case
	when TRFF=1 (Gulshan's symmetric Gaussian fitting), the default
	switch that we are currently running is TRFF=2 (Mike's asymmetric
	fitting).

ML  -   I will look at it and give you a fix to those quality checks.
    -   I propose to have a software meeting in the next 2 weeks at OSU.

	After discussion. we agree that: Mike is coming to LBL on March 21,
	Mark Gilkes will be here March 16, then we can have a software
	meeting at LBL.



                                        Prepared by Heng Liu