Hi,

 we had a first meeting today, to try and draft a plan for our High Pt
 physics analysis for the winter conferences.
 I am sending two files: Weiming's top analysis list of work to be done,
 Lina's startup  spread shift (needs a lot of work!).
 Here is what have we discussed:
 
 1. Z--> bbbar
   Erik and Young Kee have joined the group working on this, with the
   aim of improving on the jet energy scale for top mass. It turns out
   that this is the sample that Aaron wants to use for his Higgs
   search with 4 b's in the event. They will work together!! Great!!
                                                                    
2. Top work
  Weiming went through his transparencies. We are working on a lot of
  things which are very important for EWK and top analyses (see also my 
  spreadsheet). We need to make a plan now on what we will be doing
  for the winter conferences ( beyond what we are doing now).

  It appears that we are doing a lot of service work, but we are not
  actually ready as yet to get involved in top physics (some of this
  discussion took place after we lost connection with Fermilab). Our fearless
  leader(Jim) was present and he incourages us to think about the next
  step and actually try to reduce our committments on tools, if possible.
   
  The following was discussed:
  1. get involved in looking at the top sample (TOPFND and NTUPLES
     from it). Weiming has one NTUPLE, Erik is working on adding info 
     to the Ohio one. It would be desirable for all of us to use the
     same NTUPLE, so we can share code.
  2. See what we can contribute to the top cross section, in addition
     to the tools.
  3. Work on improving the top mass measurement. D0 has been talking
     at all the conferences about better methods of combining data and
     backgrounds to find a mass (not neural network). We believe that 
     they will show results at the winter conferences. We should
     pursue better methods as well. Igor may be interested. If this is
     so, we should provide him with Monte Carlo samples to play with.
  

 Here is what each of us is doing now (I will be leaving something out
 for sure):

 Aaron  : B-tagging, Si tracking, Z-bbar, Higgs.
 Adam   : ACE, minbias for calorimeter E-scale, Z asymmetry
 Bill   : champs  
 Charles: jet corrections, top
 Greg   : electrons, Z asymmetry
 Erik   : Z-bbbar, top mass
 Henri  : SVXMON, b-tagging, top mass
 Igor   : almost done with SVXMON and Si Calibration, top mass (we hope)
 Jason  : ACE, silicon (pager, calibration+ tracking), Z asymmetry
 Jeremy : Monte Carlo, top mass 
 Jim    : looking at data, top mass
 Lauren : minbias for calorimeter E-scale, ?
 Lina   : jet corrections, top mass
 Ykk    : L3, Z asymmetry, Z-bbbar, top
 Weiming: b-tagging, Higgs, top cross-section

This is an impressive list (15)! We should be able to do a lot of physics!