CLAS Meeting Minutes, November 2003

1. Volker Burkert gave the CLAS status summary (see link here)
2. Hari Areti gave the accelerator summary, focusing mainly on Hurricane Isabel recovery issues.
3. CLAS business meeting:

• We discussed realigning the Physics Working Groups from the current ones (Real Photon, N* and Multihadron) to Hadron Spectroscopy, Deep Inelastic Process and Nuclear Physics in order to reduce overlap among the groups.  The realignment passed, 23 in favor, 21 abstaining.  This must be voted on again at the next meeting in order to become official.
• We approved a general set of charter changes to modernize the charter and remove unnecessary references to CLAS construction.  These will be posted once we get a new CLAS archivist.
  
• A bylaws change to define voting rights in the PWGs will be proposed at the next meeting.
• A bylaws change to clarify the responsibilities of the Service Work Committee passed.  It requires the SWC to request service needs from the various technical committees.  The new archivist will post these also.

1. Jerry Gilfoyle's analysis of deuterium (e,e'p) response functions is approved as a CLAS Approved Analysis
2. Kim Egiyan presented a talk on 3N correlations in  A(e,e') at 2 < x < 3
3. Ji Li presented Exotic Meson Photoproduction results
4. The Offline Technical Working Group (OTWG) led by Latifa E. presented the results of its Wednesday meeting.  They are making progress in DC alignment, TOF calibration, and monitoring calibration.  Results for two different momentum correction schemes can be found in CLAS Notes 2003-012 (Kijun Park) and 2003-005 (Alexei Klimenko and Sebastian Kuhn).  
5. Jorn Langheinrich (So Carolina) presented his GAMECOCK gui-based wrapper to greatly simplify cooking and calibration.  It is implemented for SC calibration but could easily be extended to other detectors.
6. Mac Mestayer presented DC inefficiency analyses.
7. Maurizio Ungaro presented his pi0 electroproduction at High Q^2 results
   
8. The real excitement was on Saturday when the various theta+ results and proposals were presented:

•   John Price: search for cascade-- (double minus) pentaquark
• Elton Smith: cascade photoproduction with untagged photons
• Marco Battaglieri: low photon energy theta production.  Two peaks?
• Dennis Weygand: gamma p -> pi+ K- theta+ using g6 data