# Presentation: 063382

## Closing Remarks

- H.Weerts
- Michigan State University

## The location

- Not everybody instantly enthusiastic  about location of workshop this year before the workshop;
- hot and humid Norman, Oklahoma in the summer

- Would like to thank the Oklahoma group for hosting the workshop.

- Every body is leaving with a different view of Oklahoma University:

**Beautiful campus**
**Great facilities**
**Great weather, although on the hot side**
**Cool meeting rooms and buildings**

- Excellent place for workshop

- Several other attractions discovered in evening hours........

## Thank you

- Grateful and thankful to our colleagues

- Program committee:

- “One man  everyday problem solving” committee:

- Local organizers :

- Ia Iashvili,  Gavin Davies
- Andrei Nomerotski, Mike Strauss

- Brad Abbott, Phil Gutierrez &
- Mike Strauss

- and all people behind the scenes

- Mike Strauss

- made it all work

## Language competition

- Public affairs office  at Fermilab wants to know number of languages spoken in CDF and D0.

- We have done this before:  ~42 or more

- Send email to:
- Judy Jackson  ( jjackson @ fnal.gov  )
- With subject:  “D0, language 1, language 2, etc”

- Will announce on d0news and D0 IB

- What to do:

- Criteria:  use only languages which you speak fluently

## Status  

- Very broad brush

**Detector is complete and we are reading it “all” out**
**Collecting data & transferring to final form of storage**
**Processing events, reconstructing them and making results available to collaboration **
**Learning and understanding detector ( calib, align etc.)**
**We are producing Monte Carlo events at large rate**
**Even are able to produce first physics results**

**Still quite a bit away from a smoothly, fast and efficient running system**

**Need emphasis on THIS; takes manpower**

**shortage**

**Starting Run 2b**

## Critical areas

**The trigger and DAQ**

**May  have to consider to send help to BD **** ****( **Already help from Boston student Lorenzo Feligioni)

**RECO & algorithms**

**Run 2b**

**Luminosity**

**Highest priority **

**Need nominal bandwidth; starting to hurt physics; L1 problems, algorithms in L2, L3; unknown problems ahead**
**Trigger verification help from ID & physics groups**

**FOCUS **

- Our plate is full.......Manpower is needed everywhere...............

**Want to get P13 (physics); a long difficult road.  A lot of effort, but need to focus on getting physics results.**
**Need for certified L2,L3 algorithms NOW; activate them in **

**HAVE to upgrade for Run 2b and ****are committed to this****.**
**Solve/attack all administrative hurdles  ( Lab, DOE, world...)**
**Have to show/document our commitment ( questioned by Director & Proj. Man.)**

**Critical areas**

**Problem for whole field **

## Priorities

**Need to emphasize & focus on understanding and solving basic problems in the detector, algorithms and computing areas, with emphasis on producing “physics” quantities.**

- Have produced first physics results, showing we can do it

**Need to stop/slow down on (for example) simulation efforts to find a signal in an imaginary data set.**

- We are on the map

**Final push towards the nominal operating Run 2a experiment**

**(nominal bandwidths everywhere & reconstruction of events)**

## Conclusions and outlook

- This was another very useful workshop in the long series of annual workshops that D0 has had.   Tradition should continue.

- It is good for our physics and essential for the health of the collaboration.

- Banquet last night & crowd at “The Mont” afterwards obvious indicators

- Outlook

- Crossed the ocean
- Conquered the mountain range
- .........
- Cross the last river in front of us before we enter

- The land of milk and honey in physics

- River may be wider than we think

- Remarkable performance by ~25 colleagues at karaoke bar

## The last six years as a spokesman

- Year 1 ............2.............3...............4...............5...............6

- Time:

- Status:

**It has been an incredible honor for me to serve as one the spokespeople of this outstanding experiment and collaboration. **
**I have especially enjoyed the interaction with all of you and it has been an incredible experience to work with such fantastic group of physicists from all around the globe.**

**THANK  YOU ALL**