GlueX Physics Workshop 2016

Purpose

• To give an overview of recent developments in hadron spectroscopy, with a focus on physics analysis opportunities with Jefferson Lab experimental data.
• To discuss software and analysis techniques that will be essential in extracting first physics results from GlueX data.
• To have hands-on sessions for participants to actively engage in performing physics analyses.

These talks, tutorials, and hands-on sessions will be catered towards graduate students to help familiarize them with doing physics analyses with Jefferson Lab experimental data.

Although this workshop is GlueX-focused, its content is of interest to the larger Jefferson Lab hadron spectroscopy community, and all are invited to attend.

Location and Time

The workshop will take place at:

DATES: May 11 - 13, 2016

LOCATION: CEBAF Center L102 - L104

Registration & Requirements

• [Registration Page]
• All attendees are required to bring their own laptop to the workshop.
  • It must have enough memory (4+ GB RAM preferred) and free hard disk space (~15+ GB) to run a virtual machine, which will be distributed at the workshop.
  • It must have VirtualBox installed (v4.2.14 or later): Download VirtualBox
  • If you are attending remotely, instructions for obtaining the virtual machine image are below.

Remote Participation

1. To join via a Web Browser, go to the page [1] https://bluejeans.com/115815824.
2. To join via Polycom room system go to the IP Address: 199.48.152.152 (bjn.vc) and enter the meeting ID: 115815824.
3. To join via phone, use one of the following numbers and the Conference ID: 115815824.
   • US or Canada: +1 408 740 7256 or
   • US or Canada: +1 888 240 2560
4. More information on connecting to bluejeans is available.

Agenda: Wednesday May 11, 2016

• 2:00 Introduction & Meson Spectroscopy (x) --- Chair: Paul Mattione
  • 2:00 Welcome and Getting Started (15) --- Paul Mattione

Overview of meson spectroscopy: Curtis
Interesting physics with early GlueX data (& Introduce g, p -> omega, p channel): Matt / Ryan

• 3:30 Coffee (20)

Analysis Basics (PID, Beam photon selection, Particle Combo)
Analysis Example: Get through JANA (PID, Beam photon selection, kinematic fit)

• 5:30 Adjourn

Agenda: Thursday May 12, 2016

• 8:30 Start
• 10:00 Coffee (20)

Analysis of ROOT Trees (Selectors, TParticle*, kinematics, Play time)

• 12:00 Lunch (90)

Overview of reaction production mechanisms, Polarization observables, SDMEs Moving from simulation to a real analysis: acceptance corrections, systematic uncertainties, cross section

• 3:00 Coffee (20)

Beam asymmetry extraction (simple example: gp -> p pi0, then omega channel)
Using AmpTools to extract SDME with acceptance correction

• 5:00 Adjourn
• 6:00 Reception

Agenda: Friday May 13, 2016

• 8:30 Start

Working with Experimental Data (EventStore, SWIF, Tape silo, Jasmine, Auger, monitoring database, RCDB, etc.): Sean

• 10:00 Coffee (20)

Open work session: Independent Analysis Time (w/ help from experts): Paul, Sean, Justin

• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:30 Bonus (Optional) Open Session

Open work session: Independent Analysis Time (w/ help from experts): Paul, Sean, Justin

• 5:00 Adjourn