Barrel HCal Meeting
BHCal Meeting, 2/13/2026
sPHENIX R&R: Ed O’Brien gave update last night at sPHENIX GM: all detectors will be disassembled by September, 2028, consistent with our earlier planning
Highbay 2/13/26 Martin
10 Gbit readout, running into roadblock, Norbert brought his set-up (10 Gbit), but didn’t work with KCU card; Miklosh made another firmware version, all non-BNL cards work fine, all BNL cards don’t
Now: card will go to Miklosh to figure out; in meantime 1 Gbit fall back
Found two more cards; one has interface broken
While Norbert was here took couple of 10 Gbit runs, have in hand, working on new decoder
Norbert: did Oleg talk to Paul Orphin about space assignments in HighBay, HFJet is desiring space (currently sitting at 1012).
Jan: will help with CALOROC simulations, Ravi will also help with that; Ravi and Jan are in touch.
(Cf. google doc)
Jan: calibration: located latest simulation production so can start with neutron and charged hadron simulations as we discussed yesterday.
Olaiya: timing: still working on it
David: one slide update: ML for calibration with continuous energy distribution: reported last time that with cheating version (when reporting Ekin to network) worked, but not without: almost no clusters
Now: using more files, only taking particles that have associated clusters; now technically working, reproducing roughly continuous distribution, but still artifacts, but encouraging.
In the slide: all particles, not just neutrons
Murad: no news from Eljen.