# Presentation: 561147

## IB Meeting

**Nick Hadley**
**The University of Maryland**
**DØ Collaboration Meeting**
**Fermilab February 26, 2004**

## Agenda

**1)   Welcome and News -     Nick Hadley ****          Fresno Meeting Plans ****          Election Schedules ****2)   Proposal  from the University of Mississippi to Join D0 ****          Presentation by Breese Quinn, Discussion and Vote       ****3)   AC Report - Tom Diehl     -     ****4)   Showing Results Outside Dzero and Attibuting the****	****           Work of Others ****        Presentation and Discussion - John Womersley ****5)   IB Participation in Experiment Management ****          Jon Kotcher **** **
**6)   Discussion of Shift Requirements ****          Shift Data Summary - Arnd Meyer ****          Discussion - Jerry Blazey **** **

## Slide 3

## Fly to Fresno Yosemite International airport 

- Note on air travel:
- Fly to Fresno Yosemite International airport
- Airport code:  **FAT      **(formerly: Fresno Air Terminal)

## http://physics.csufresno.edu/d0workshop/

**Please register at your earliest convenience**

**http://physics.csufresno.edu/d0workshop/**

## Election News

**What we did last time from March 31, 2003 Dzero news**
**The Spokesperson Election Committee (SEC) is pleased to announce the start of the 2003 D0 spokesperson election. The D0 spokespersons serve 2-year staggered terms, and so each year we elect one spokesperson. The successful candidate in this election will serve with Jerry Blazey, whose current term of office extends until summer 2004. **
**In brief the election process will include: **
- (A) a three-week nomination phase,
- (B) a one-week period during which nominees decide whether or not to run,
- (C) a two-week period during which candidates respond to questions from the collaboration, and
- (D) a two-week election.

## Election News (cont)

**Please send me names of people to serve on the election committee**
**The SEC members in 2003 were: ****Angela Bellavance, ****Volker Buescher (chair), ****Gaston Gutierrez, ****Alan Jonckheere (technical advisor), ****Ursula Bassler (ex-officio, AC chair), ****Terry Wyatt (ex-officio, IB chair).**** **
**2003 election started March 31 ended May 23****propose roughly similar time scale**
**then IB Deputy Chair election...**

## Space this summer

**If your group expects to expand the number of permanent residents at Fermilab this spring of summer please send Ron Lipton <lipton@fnal.gov> a note with the number of people, the duration of their stay, and whether more office space is needed.**

## University of Mississippi

**Welcome to Breese Quinn and the University of Mississippi who were voted into the collaboration last evening.**

## Advisory Council Report

**October 21, 2003 to February 24, 2004**

- AC Members:
- Laurent Duflot, Alan Stone, Brigitte Vachon, Darien Wood, Tom Diehl (Chair)
- Nick Hadley and Pierre Petroff (IB Chair and Deputy)
- Jerry Blazey and John Womersley (Co-spokes)

## Summary

**The Advisory Council (BV, AS, LD, DW, TD, NH, PP, GB, JW) has concentrated on Service Work, Technical Management, and Long-Term Operation.  **
- Provided a lot of advice, persistently & mostly good, I think, and John and Jerry have responded.
- The AC is still worried and is going to continue to work for progress in any way it can.
**We worked on some other important issues including d0web, Fresno format, student thesis distribution, and meeting effectiveness.**
**Finally, AC agrees the many good analyses and talks from D0 students and post-docs this week has been a real positive. New faces.**

## Talks outside DØ - Womersley

**A reminder: if a result needs to be approved, then it cannot be shown outside D0 until it has been approved**
**We have informally allowed exceptions (no copies!) for things like **
- a description of work in progress during a DOE review
- a job interview
- Any need to revisit this?
- 10 minute student talks need only physics group convenor approval. No final numbers

## Two issues related to giving credit

**1. Talks outside D0**
- When a talk is given “for the DO collaboration”
- no attribution of individual work is expected
- When a talk is given at a seminar, reporting results from DO
- ?
- When a talk is given by the speaker reporting his/her own work (job interview etc.) but shows some work of others
- ?
**2. D0 Notes**
- Giving correct attribution to the work of others
- We haven’t felt the need for rules beyond those normally expected in scientific good practice
- There have been complaints that such practice is not always followed
**We don’t have explicit policies: do we need one? A.  No, too many individual cases.**
**Best guideline: would the person who made the plot be surprised or offended to see it in the talk/note without attribution?**

## Institutional Commitment & Reporting - Blazey

**Last year’s collection of information was helpful**
- Some resources identified.
- Some crucial and shorthanded efforts now better manned.
**We will repeat again in April w/ a web based tool.  **
- This information will help us meet the challenge of LHC run-up.
- We are in an ongoing dialog with DOE & NSF about the need for continued support, the results are small but real.

## Shifts

**We have had difficulty filling CR and SAM shifts**
- Prompted, in part, the explicit publicizing of tallies.
- Increased participation
**But a number of issues were raised. **
- 1) What is the appropriate number required?
- 2) Should there be an individual requirement?
- 3) Can consortia be formed to meet requirements and avoid unevenness?
- 4) Should there be exemptions?
- 5) Should we include processing, skimming, and Monte Carlo generation?
**How to proceed?**
- Advice from TIC and Run Coordinator
- 2,3,4) Commentary from AC and IB.
- 5) Advice from TIC and Run Coordinator, AC and IB
**	****Over the next few months will formulate a policy for review at Fresno.**

## Technical Integration

**Technical Integration Coordinator – Jon Kotcher**
**Gang of 4 – Ginther, Gutierrez, Klima, Kotcher doing an audit of technical status of the experiment, hardware and software**
**Experiment management will set priorities (their job).**
**Call for PI’s and experiment management to collaborate together to implement priorities. Dialog needed.**

## Our Initial Reactions

**After ~ 11 discussions thus far, each >2 hours, we’ve all come away extremely impressed:**
- Wealth of talent
- Level of dedication and effort
- Our younger colleagues are not only doing all the work, but leading significant efforts on all fronts as well
**Quite extraordinary, even inspiring**
- Our thanks to all of them for committing to DZero at this level, and driving this experiment forward for all of us
**Exciting and encouraging...**

## Comments on Current Managerial Structure

**Tier of upper managers put in place by our elected representatives (spokes) **
**These managers have been entrusted with, are in many ways responsible for, experiment’s output – but have little say over what people actually do**
**If we really are to make serious improvements, a collective effort must be made to give the managers ****(& spokes) some measure of authority over what people work on**
**We feel it imperative that the PI’s work closely with us as we try to focus the labor in places where experiment will most benefit**
- This includes putting more resources into laying a firmer foundation, understanding of the detector and its features, otherwise laying the extensive groundwork that’s required for solid measurements
**It’s what you asked us to do! **

## New PhD Students

**Mahsana Ahsan – Kansas State**
**Mark Smith – Kansas State**
**Ana Carolina Assis Jesus – U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro**
**Helena Malbouisson - U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro**
**Renata Rodrigues - U do Estado do Rio de Janeiro**
**Stephen Robinson – Imperial College**
**Dag Gillberg – Simon Frasier U.**
**Pieter van den Berg – NIKHEF/Univ. Amsterdam**
**Jeroen Hegeman - NIKHEF/Univ. Amsterdam**
**Greg Pawloski – Rice**
**Aurelien Mendes – CPPM**
**Hwi Dong Yoo - Brown**

## New PhD Students (cont)

**Marcus Lewin – Lancaster**
**Carsten Magass – Aachen**
**Oliver Kraff – Aachen (Diploma student)**
**Philipp Biallass – Aachen (Diploma student)**
**Vlastislav Hynek – Prague**
**Zdenek Hubacek – Prague**

## New Postdocs and Researchers

**Sasha Caron – NIKHEF/Univ. Amsterdam**

## Changed Institutions

**Frederic Villeneuve - postdoc - Marseille to Imperial**
**Yann Coadou – postdoc – Uppsala to Simon Frasier**

## Conclusion

**We have a large data set and more coming in with record stores.**
**Enjoy the physics of the next few years!**
**But....**
**Much work still to do. Better data will give us better physics. **
**Not enough people, coordination vital**
**We have to run, operate, analyze, build, commission**