Minutes from IFIC TileCal meeting Valencia - CERN 17th December 2007
At CERN: Bruce, Jalal.
At Valencia: Alberto, Arantxa, Belen, Carlos, Cristobal, Emilio, Juan, Victoria.

OMB status (Alberto):
Optical Receivers still to be bought (10000Euro).
Firmware performs inverse pulse generation (given E, t, p produces samples).
Development on high rate missing events: L1A spacing < 5 BC.
Staging, input, TTC FPGA and DSP prepared to handle 4 BC spacing.

TDAQ status and plans for 2008 (Carlos):
Many developments for this year. Two lab set-ups.
Good performance in milestone weeks.
Developments still to come. Carlos will start working on his thesis.

Low p_T Muon Trigger with ROD: Status and Plans (Arantxa):
Studying performance of both algorithms with MC samples (athena rel 12.0.X) for CSC note using the algorithms.
Discrepancy in efficiencies between Julio's and Arantxa's algorithm: No cut for gap.
Fraction of fakes are smaller in arantxa's algorithm.
Tails in the timing distribution in technical run set-up. To be optimized.
Preparing new DSP version new ByteStream format, deal with noisy channels and byte-stream decoder.

Higgs to Muons: Status, CSC Note and Plans (Arantxa):
A→μμ inclusive analysis (without b-tagging).
Feasible to be done with low luminosity (~10 fb^-1).
First draft with the highlights of the contribution given to HG8 conveners (http://aranzazu.web.cern.ch/aranzazu/draft.pdf)

Optimal Filtering Recent Updates (Ximo):
New results from simulation and testbeam data on χ² vs Q.
χ² is better estimator.

SUSY 0-lepton analysis QCD Fake MET cleaning Status and results (Jalal):
QCD cleaning cuts: cuts based on calorimeter and tracker recontruction to reject events with a potential fake MET
Presented preliminary cut flow table
Migration to SUSY view ntuples and new cuts definition
Contribution to the 0-lepton note ongoing.

AOB:
Christmas Lunch: We will celebrate the traditional Christmas lunch on Thursday 20th at Restaurante Levante in Benisano.
Disk space: Carlos and Alberto will take care of buying 1TB disk space for valtical15.