Name: Backward HCal DSC weekly meeting
Start: 2025-08-19T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-19T15:20:00-04:00
Location: No location set

- 14:00 → 14:10
  
  DSL report 10m
  
  Pre-TDR Assignments:
  - Sam: neutron efficiency
  - Tianhao: Simulation vs. CMS data, impact of tile uniformity
  - Maria: intro/overview of design optimization
  - UIUC: Updates to muon ID and muon plots
  - Leszek: updates to sampling fraction and geometry description. Update into plots to include neutrons / muons and mean energy for the tail catcher region
  - CTU (Sasha/alexander/Subadip): Upate plots similar to DAC presentation to show the position resolution (5x5, 10x10, 15x15) and the Delta Rxy distribution.
  - Yevhenia: nHCAL performance evaluation and tests
  
  I have a version of the pre-TDR with only the nHCAL that we can use to draft before pushing our updates to the official epic pre-TDR document:
  
  View only link:
  https://www.overleaf.com/read/srykwmdjtkpj#9fc320
  
  During the meeting I can add emails for edit access.
  
  Current ePIC pre-TDR:
  https://zenodo.org/records/14328280
  
  Speakers: Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University), Dr Leszek Kosarzewski (Ohio State University)
- 14:10 → 14:20
  
  DSTC report 10m
  
  Speaker: Caroline Riedl (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- 14:20 → 14:40
  
  UIUC group report 20m
  
  Speakers: Caroline Riedl (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kira Richards
- 14:40 → 15:00
  OSU group report 20m
  - Tianhao: low energy proton detection + other studies
  Speakers: Prof. Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University), Dr Leszek Kosarzewski (Ohio State University), Dr Maria Stefaniak (Ohio State University), Samuel Corey (The Ohio State University), Yevheniia Khyzhniak
- 15:00 → 15:20
  
  CTU group report 20m
  
  Speakers: Alexandr Prozorov, Dr Leszek Kosarzewski (Ohio State University), Subhadip Pal (Czech Technical University in Prague)