A lot of work has been in the "slow path" analysis (at least for
non-nucleon-decay catalyzing monopoles) with Erik's FFDSTs. However we
aren't very far along in the "fast path" (I think there is a certain
irony here!)
It would be a good idea for those who are interested in fast
monopole searches to agree on an initial set of cuts so that a bulk of the
tape spinning that has to be done can be reduced. You could imagine
multitasking between Universities so that we can analyze the full RARE DST
data set for fast monopoles on a reasonable time-scale (or you can imagine
sticking the bulk of the tape-spinning on one poor graduate student in an
East-coast institution, but if you also want to benefit from this grad
student's labors, you better send your input now!)
As a starting point I was going to select on events where the
HIPT or FMT fired, and the ERP energy in at least one box is greater than
2 Imin. I intend to do this first pass in DREAM only on the WFD-combined
data for maximum portability to others' analyses. Using the ERP as a
first cut has a couple advantages: 1) its response over time is well
known and well-documented, particularly at the Imin level, 2) selection
will be independent of whether the waveforms were saturated or not, 3) it
is less CPU intensive than to compute the WFD charge for every event.
More complicated studies using the WFDs can be performed on the reduced data.
I strongly encourage that people who are interested get in
contact with me so that we can either pool our resources, or so that my
solitary work benefits the most people.
Chris Orth