Summary of July 24th mtg

Attending: Y2K, Mario, Luciano, Mel, Richard (phone), Patrizia, Marco,
 Avi.

 - Was too early for a discussion. We think we are ok, but we'll (Y2K and
 myself) to right something for next time. 

 - Mario has mapped completely the COT occupancies, and data sizes for
 both data (broken down by instantaneous luminosity) and MC. From this we
 can extract the luminosity dependence. It may be that the extrapolation
 will not be too bad as we have 8 sets of 5 points each that have to fit
 the same curve. Luciano and Mario promised to do it. Arnd is coming back
 tomorrow, I hope we can feed him all these numbers and that he'll
 combine them into a bullet proof TDC section.

 -  Marco showed some very scary plot of SVT impact parameter for events
 of Jet20 merged with 5 min bias events. Using perfect XFT tracks, he
 gets the fraction of non-Gaussian tails to go from ~16% to ~68%. Under
 further investigation.

 - Richard scared us too. Described a study underway to use the same
 sample (Jet20+5 min bias) to look at XFT performance. So far looked at
 Pt and phi resolution. He sees it go from 2.5%/GeV (in the note) to
 4.3%/Gev (now), and phi resolution from 8 to 17 mr. He also described a
 couple of other lines of investigation being followed: 
   1. toy MC to study resolution. reproduces current XFT performance. is
 used to show how a future device will behave. does not address fake
 rates.
   2. thoughts about estimating fake rates reduction (in a future
 device), using its extra information.
 Promised to write a description of what was done, intermediate
 conclusions and possible directions. 

 - Y2K went over the latest trigger table, incorporating Mel's latest set
 of comments. Some comments about justifications of SUSY triggers,
 documentation of known (e.g. inclusive CEM trigger), and text on wild
 speculation (e.g. muons).


 We skipped Z-->bbbar, COT performance, and Si tracking. 
 Agreed to meet again Friday 1300, same place (trailer 171).

 Thanx a lot for the patience and all the work.
                                     Avi.