Don Lincoln (Scientist)
Service Work:
  Tracker Front End Electronics 
    5-8 hrs per week
    Service Task Group: Operations
    Service task Leader: D. Denisov
    Description: "I interface between engineers at
                 Feynman and D0 with respect to the VRB and VRBC firmware.  
                 I do not write firmware, but I test and debug, letting 
                 the engineers know the symptoms and pinpointing where the 
                 problem lies.  This has been a real mess, due to the
                 history.  We now have reliable firmware, but no spares.  
                 We're working on getting the spare situation under control."
  B ID 
    20 hours per week 
    Service Task Group: B ID Group
    Service task Leader: Meena Narain and Gordon Watts
    Description: "I am working on bID for high-pt jets.  Specifically, I've
                 been working on mu-tag and secondary vertex tagging.  I had to completely
                 remake ptrel templates for high pt jets (the old ones were for B physics,
                 not high pt).  My results are useful for any search using high pt Bs and
                 have some bearing on the higher-end Higgs domain.  In addition, I have been
                 working a long time on secondary vertexing.  I originally started testing
                 the existing secondary vertexing code and dominant implementation (d0root).
                 I spent 6-8 months maintaining and debugging the code when the graduate
                 student author left.  He's back now and has taken over the maintenance.  Now
                 I spend a lot of time qualifying the code.  I have extensive results on the
                 behavior of high pt btagging.  I also spend a fraction of my time running
                 jobs to fix up TMB files which were made with faulty RECO.
Updated: October 16, 2003