Research Plan at RIKEN CC-J Date: 11/11/08 (DD/MM/YY) To: the Planning and Coordination Office of RIKEN CC-J Reseach Subject : MPC Left/Right Asymmetry Measurement (PHENIX official or not : official ) Person responsible for this reserch: Name : John Koster Tel/Fax : 631 344 3805 E-mail : jkoster4@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov Person responsible for the job submission: Name : John Koster Tel/Fax : 631 344 3805 E-mail : jkoster4@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov Other collabrators in this research subject: Name : Kensuke Okada tel/Fax: 631 344 5969 E-mai: okada@bnl.gov Name : Ruizhe Yang tel/Fax: 631 344 3805 E-mai: ruizhe.yang@gmail.com Summary of this research (10-100 lines) Measure left/right asymmetries on forward neutral pion production Estimated CPU time required : 1200 hours (with Pentium III 1GHz) Estimated disk space usage required : 100 GB Estimated HPSS space usage required : HPSS band width for above estimate : negligible MB/s whatever bbftp gives me on default settings. Target date for completion (cpu) : 03/01/09 (DD/MM/YY) (disk): 03/01/09 Plan for the publication of this result (if possible) Forward A_{N} as a function of x_{F} and p_{T} or other kinematic cuts. Other useful infomation My plan is produce a uDST from the Run08 MPC dataset with a total disk space of 100 GB. There may need to be several iterations of producing the uDST's (where the old files get deleted) as I improve MPC calibrations.