Magix weekly meeting

Tuesday 21 Feb 2017, 10:00 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

Sem. Room 2

Meeting agenda:

 

1. Discuss the student projects
2. Introduce Max's projects
3. List new students looking for a project
4. Wiki: Starting guide for new students
5. Planning for GEM testbeam
6. Discuss epics for GEM testbeam
7. DPG talks reminder and planning
8. Talks rehearsal planning
9. What are the schedule and absences of people working on the TB preparations in the next couple of months?
10. Setting a few possible dates for the MAGIX phone meeting.
11. What physics benchmark should we work on

Slides MAGIX-12-02-17-ResonancesInHeliumBurning.pdf MAGIX-12-02-17-ResonancesInHeliumBurning.pptx

Attendees:

• Achim
• Harald
• Patrick
• Sören
• Julian
• Lunki
• Mirco
• Pepe
• Yasemin
• Manuel

Minutes:

Students Projects

See wiki page with ideas: https://wiki.magix.kph/index.php/MAGIX_student_projects

• Max will start most likely on 6th of march and work on chromium GEMs
• 3 new Hiwis start as well on the 6th March (9h per week)
  • 9h per week
  • contract not signed yet
  • tasks not set yet -> we will fix it on their first day
• Rahina Master thesis?
  • Detector simulation?

Talk on S-Factor by Patrick

• slides are attached
• focus on contribution of resonances to cross-section
• seperation of p- and d-waves
• discussion about detector-concept and necessary angular acceptance
• -> wait for simulation results and then work on detector concept

Other

• New indico page set up!
• Benchmark-Meeting on 8th or 9th of March around 16th
  • Stefano will set up poll
  • On which tasks are we going to work?
• Are there any plans for a polarimeter for MAGIX?
  • talk to MESA guys

Quote of the day

"Seperation of the multipoles is one day of work..." Harald Merkel