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Work limited by other tasks so status is much the same as 2 weeks ago BUT
MIP Finder News:
- Question of why many p+ events that get through the CT cuts were not detected by the MIP finder has been answered!
  - 80% of these events were obviously MIPs when scanned by eye, but only 50-60% were detected by the MIP finder.

Fred will need to do sims to replicate the GSI data configuration.
- This means a new config in Gleam
- He needs to determine number of events required
Eric N. has been working DC2 prep tasks so not much done recently on GSI analysis. He has gathered together the software pieces he needs for the task
Fred is still working on MIP finder, esp. on trying to make it work with the odd events that make it past other cuts in bkgd analysis. He is also working with Sylvain to define new variables and cuts
Fred points out that if the TKR is not usable for GCR tracks (see below), a modified, more sophistocated MIP finder may be required
- Must account for different energy deposition pattern
- Requirement depends on rates determined from Andrey's work and allowable collection times. If we can just use the "obvious" events, we may not need a MIP finder

Andrey continues to work on GCR rates via Gleam.
- With help from Tracy and Francesco, he is closer to being able to get particle IDs from MCIntegratingHits
- His findings on file sizes and Gleam performance make the following points clear:
  - Files produced (esp. mc.root) are HUGE. We can deal with this in several ways:
    - Prune files
    - Focus incident particles on certain types of interest (e.g. Fe) rather than the entire suite of CRHeavyIonPrimary particles
    - Create specialized data products (i.e. tuples). This is what Andrey is doing via UserAlg
  - TKR Recon is very slow on these events (due to large number of delta electron hits). We need to deal with this somehow (e.g. specialized path through Recon?)
- Suggestion was made that maybe a back-of-the-envelope calculation of rates using propagator and cross sections could be made
Eric Grove suggests that FIFO overflow in the TKR may result in events with only the lower layers read out. Can this be incorporated into the simulation for investigation?
Mark needs to produce the next step in planning/tasks by approx. 1 Dec.

- - Solution is to move accepted energy deposit "window" from 9-16 MeV to 7-30 MeV, including more events in the Landau tail. This includes all the p+ events that produced obvious MIPs that the finder was missing (about 80%).
  - Hopefully new settings in code will be ready for 1B photon DC2 run.
  - A remaining question: why did these events, which are pretty obviously MIPs, get through the CT cuts in the first place?
GSI Reanalysis News:
- Eric N. still working on DC2 dark matter, but a little new work has been done
- Test analysis run through old software but don't get old numbers. Searching for problem.
- Thierry has a GLEAM implementation of most of the GSI configuration, including upstream material configurations so no need to redo this!
- Still looking into doing sim runs to support this at Lyon. Disk space easy to come by, afs farm accessible from SLAC once you have an in2p3 account.

Andrey now has solved all the problems for getting at MC truth in detail for heavy ions. Still needs to write output tuple routine, but this is easy. Should have preliminary rates by next meeting (barring other problems).
Mark has started writing In-Flight Calibration document outline. Draft should be available for next meeting

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