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STAR Collaboration Meeting - UCDavis 2008

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Monday, 16 June 2008 :: day 1

Registration

Conveners: Brandee Mead

(Roessler 66 Lobby : 08:30 - 09:00)

Junior session 1

Conveners: Anders Knospe, Anthony Timmons

(Roessler 66 : 09:00 - 14:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	What's Behind the Concrete Wall? A Closer Look at the STAR Detector and Some of its Hardware ( 00:50 ) 1 file	Jim Thomas (LBNL)
09:50	A new muon telescope detector at STAR ( 00:20 ) 1 file	David Tlusty (Nuclear Physics Inst., Academy of Sciences)
10:10	Gamma-conversion tomography of STAR Silicon detector in Cu+Cu collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Kyung-Eon Choi (Pusan)
10:30	Morning Break ( 00:15 )
10:45	Strange Hadron elliptic flow from 200 GeV CuCu collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Shusu Shi (Institute of Particle Physics)
11:05	Glauber Monte Carlo simulation in heavy ion collisions ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Hiroshi Masui (LBNL)
11:25	Studies of the jet fragmentation in p+p collisions in STAR ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Elena Bruna (Yale University)
11:45	Baryon to Meson ratios in jets and ridges ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Cristina Suarez (UIC)
12:00	Lunch ( 02:00 )

Junior session 2

Conveners: Cristina Suarez, Xin Dong

(Roessler 66 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Predicting the Total Heavy Flavor Cross Section ( 00:50 ) 0 files	Ramona Vogt (LBNL)
14:50	Measuring the D0 and D_s yields in 200GeV Cu+Cu collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Stephen Baumgart (Yale University)
15:10	Study of bottom quark contribution to nonphotonic electron by e-h correlations ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Shingo Sakai (UCLA)
15:30	Afternoon Break ( 00:15 )
15:45	J/Psi in 200 GeV Cu+Cu ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Daniel Kikola (LBNL)
16:05	Measurement of non-photonic electrons in Cu+Cu 200 GeV collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Anders Knospe (Yale University)
16:25	Star TPC Space Charge and Grid Leak Calibration ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Hao Qiu (Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou)
16:45	Performance and analysis using the Silicon Strip Detector ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jonathan Bouchet (Kent State University)

Junior Members Barbeque

Conveners: Xin Dong

(Putah Creek Lodge : 17:00 - 20:30)

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 :: day 2

Registration

Conveners: Brandee Mead

(Lobby Roessler 66 : 08:30 - 09:00)

Plenary session - Status of Experiment / Run 8 / BUR

Conveners: Daniel Cebra

(Roessler 66 : 09:00 - 14:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Welcome ( 00:15 ) 0 files	Nu Xu (LBNL)
09:15	Status of STAR / RUN 8 Summary ( 00:45 ) 0 files	Bill Christie (BNL)
10:00	Town meeting: PWG restructuring / 5-Year Run Plan - BUR ( 01:00 ) 2 files	STAR Management Team
11:00	Morning Break ( 00:20 )
11:20	DAQ 1000 Installation progress ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Bill Christie (BNL)
11:40	TOF installation update ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Kohei Kajimoto (Texas)
12:00	Lunch ( 02:00 )

Plenary session - Upgrade Session / Future of STAR

Conveners: Helen Caines

(Roessler 66 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	FGT ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Doug Hasell (MIT)
14:20	MTD ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Lijuan Ruan (BNL)
14:40	Gamma-Gamma Converter ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Evan Finch (Yale)
15:00	HFT ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Hans Georg Ritter (LBNL)
15:20	SSD ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Howard Matis (LBNL)
15:40	Afternoon Break ( 00:20 )
16:00	GEM Tracking Alignment ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Dick Majka (Yale)
16:20	Trigger Upgrades ( 00:15 ) 1 file	Hank Crawford (LBNL)
16:25	( 00:00 )
16:35	BSMD ( 00:10 ) 1 file	Steve Trentalange (UCLA)
16:45	Town meeting: Long-term future of STAR ( 00:45 ) 0 files	Discussion moderator: Zhangbu Xu (BNL)

Advisory Board

Conveners: Nu Xu

(Phys/Geo 432 : 18:30 - 21:30)

Wednesday, 18 June 2008 :: day 3

Parallel session - Event by Event PWG

Conveners: Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Aihong Tang

(Phys/Geo 140 : 09:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Probe for Strong Parity Violation in Heavy Ion Collisions using Three Particle Correlations ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State University)
09:45	Update on System Size and Incident Energy Dependence of pt Fluctuations and Correlations at Mid-rapidity ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Lokesh Kumar (Panjab University)
10:15	K/pi Fluctuations and the Balance Function - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Gary Westfall (Michigan State University)
10:45	Coffee ( 00:30 )
11:15	pt-correlation ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Monika Sharma (Wayne State University)
11:45	Method for study of ptpt correlation ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Claude Pruneau (Wayne State University)
12:05	Lunch Break ( 02:10 )
14:30	Paper Proposal: Charged and strange hadron elliptic flow from 200 and 62.4 GeV Cu+Cu collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Shusu Shi
14:30	Percolation and Long range correlations ------ DELETED ! ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Terry Tarnowsky (Purdue University)
15:00	Two-body correlation with respect to RP ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Na Li (LBNL)
15:30	Coffee ( 00:30 )
16:00	AMPT Predictions for K/pi Fluctuations and the Balance Function ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Hui Wang (Michigan State University)

Parallel session - Peripheral collisions PWG

Conveners: Janet Seger, Yury Gorbunov

(Phys/Geo 432 : 09:00 - 12:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	rho prime analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Boris Grube (Pusan)
09:30	Starlight upgrades ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Yury Gorbunov (Creighton)
10:00	rho analyses (dAu and 62 GeV) ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Janet Seger (Creighton)
10:30	Break ( 00:15 )
10:45	pp2pp update ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Wlodek Guryn (BNL)
11:15	New analyses ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Spencer Klein (LBNL)
11:45	Future Planning ( 00:45 ) 0 files

Parallel session - Heavy Flavor PWG

Conveners: Alexandre Suaide, Manuel Calderon

(Phys/Geo 416 : 09:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	e-h correlation paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 3 files	Shingo/Andre
09:40	D* on jets paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 1 file	Xin Dong
10:20	break ( 00:20 )
10:40	Upsilon paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 1 file	Pibero/Mauro/Debasish
11:20	Triggers for Run 9 ( 00:40 ) 1 file	All (with spin people?)
12:00	Lunch ( 02:00 )
14:00	Update on D-mesons in Cu+Cu ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Sarah LaPointe
14:30	D-meson update ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Stephen Baumgart
15:00	e-D0 correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Artemios Geromitsos
15:30	break ( 00:20 )

Parallel session - Event Structure PWG

Conveners: Lanny Ray

(Phys/Geo 107 : 09:00 - 17:30)

Parallel session - Strangeness PWG

Conveners: Lee Barnby

(Roessler 158 : 09:00 - 12:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
11:00	Multi-strange hadrons in Cu+Cu 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xianglei Zhu (Tsinghua)
11:30	Low energy data - status and prospects ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Helen Caines (Yale)
12:00	Prospects with current and future data ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Lee Barnby (Birmingham)
12:30	Lunch ( 01:30 )

Parallel session - Spectra PWG

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan

(Phys/Geo 130 : 09:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Photon Multiplicity results from Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV ( 09:30 ) 1 file	Lokesh Kumar
11:00	identified particle spectra at high pt in p+p collisions ( 11:40 ) 1 file	Yichun Xu
11:40	High-pt proton and pion spectra from 200 GeV Cu+Cu ( 12:20 ) 1 file	Richard Hollis
12:20	Nuclei yields and v2 and comparison to models ( 13:00 ) 1 file	Jianhang Zhou
13:00	lunch break ( 14:00 )
14:00	3 particle dphi-dphi correlations and 2 particle net charge correlations ( 14:50 ) 1 file	Quan Wang
14:50	3 particle deta-deta correlations ( 15:30 ) 1 file	Pawan Netrakanti (Purdue University)

Parallel Session - Joint Spectra and Strangeness PWG Meeting

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan/Lee Barnby

(Phys/Geo 130 : 09:30 - 10:50)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:30	PID results at low-pt for 200 and 62.4 Cu+Cu data ( 10:10 ) 1 file	Aneta Iordanova
10:10	Ks and Lambda in 200 GeV Cu+Cu ( 10:50 ) 1 file	Anthony Timmins

Parallel session - Joint HighPt and Spin PWG

Conveners: Ernst Sichtermann, James Sowinski

(Phys/Geo 148 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	gamma-jet analysis in p+p and Au+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 file	A. Hamed or S. Mioduszewski
14:30	Photon-jet reconstruction with the EEMC detector - Part 1 ( 00:20 ) 3 files	Ilya Selyuzhenkov (IUCF)
14:50	Photon-jet reconstruction with the EEMC detector - Part 2 ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Pibero Djawotho
15:10	Prompt Photons using the Conversion Method ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jason Webb
15:30	Coffee break ( 00:15 )
15:45	Inclusive neutral pion and direct photon production at high transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Oleksandr Grebenyuk (LBNL)
16:15	Status of Jet Libraries (StJetMaker, StJetFinder) ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Tai Sakuma
16:45	Systematic studies on jet finding in p+p ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Elena Bruna
17:15	Jet finding in Au+Au ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Mateusz Ploskon
17:45	Dijet analysis in p+p ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Tai Sakuma

Council Meeting

Conveners: Hank Crawford

(Roessler 55 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Parallel Session - Joint Spectra and Heavy Flavor PWG Meeting

Conveners: Alexandre Suaide, Manuel Calderon and Lijuan Runa

(Phys/Geo 130 : 15:50 - 17:50)

Time	Talk	Presenter
15:50	Singe electron analysis run2006 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Wei Xie
16:20	High-pT J/Psi paper updatee/draft ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Zebo/Zhangbu
16:50	J/Psi in Cu+Cu 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Daniel Kikola
17:20	NPE's in pp Run8 with TOF ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jin Fu

Thursday, 19 June 2008 :: day 4

Plenay session - Overview talks / Theory talks

Conveners: Bernd Surrow

(Roessler 66 : 09:00 - 14:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Status and prospects of the RHIC Spin program ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)
09:30	Theory highlights of the RHIC Spin program ( 00:45 ) 0 files	Feng Yuan (LBNL)
10:15	Morning Break ( 00:15 )
10:30	Highlights of the STAR soft physics program ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Anthony Timmins (Wayne State)
11:00	Highlights of the STAR high-pT physics program ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Mateusz Ploskon (LBNL)
11:30	Theory highlights of the RHIC Relativistic Heavy-Ion program ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Rainer Fries (TAMU)
12:15	Lunch ( 01:45 )

Parallel Session - STAR S&C, UCM and CEDPS joint meeting

(Phys/Geo 107 : 13:00 - 16:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
13:00	UCM status overview ( 00:30 ) 1 file	David Alexander (Tech-X)
13:30	NetLogger framework ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Dan Gunter (LBNL)

Parallel Session - Joint Spectra/Highpt/Strangeness PWG Meeting

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Jana Bielcikova, Marco van Leeuwen, Lee Barnby

(Roessler 55 : 14:00 - 15:20)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Baryon and meson ratios in ridge/jet ( 14:40 ) 1 file	Cristina Suarez
14:40	EMC-triggered two particle correlations with identified hadrons ( 15:20 ) 1 file	Essam Elhalhuli

Parrallel Session - HFT Group

Conveners: Hans-Georg Ritter

(Phys/Geo 130 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	HFT Software overview ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Spiros Margetis, Jonathan
14:20	Thoughts on B-Meson simulation ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Gang Wang
14:40	B->J/Psi+X simulation; Status and Plans ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Quan
15:00	B triggering using the HFT? - First Steps ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Howard Matis
15:20	IST status and plans ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Bernd Surrow (MIT)
15:40	Break ( 00:10 )
15:50	How to build Pixel geometry ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Andrew Rose (LBNL)
16:10	Discussion finishing geometry - Update ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Andrew / Gerrit
16:40	Discuson finishing geometry update session ( 00:10 ) 0 files	All; led by Andrew and Gerrit
16:50	PIXEL detector Slow Simulator ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xin Li

Parallel session - Strangeness PWG

Conveners: Lee Barnby

(Roessler 158 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Parallel session - Spin PWG

Conveners: Ernst Sichtermann, James Sowinski

(Phys/Geo 148 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Neutral Strange Particle Transverse Spin Asymmetries ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Thomas Burton (University of Birmingham)
14:30	Longitudinal spin transfer for (anti-)Lambda hyperons ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Qinghua Xu
15:00	Inclusive Jet A_LL from 2005/2006 ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Murad Sarsour
15:30	( 00:30 )
16:00	Electron Analysis Update ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Priscilla Kurnadi
16:30	W simulations and FGT upgrade ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jan Balewski
17:00	Discussion: Simulations needs and AOB ( 00:20 ) 0 files	ALL
17:30	Discussion: simulation needs and AOB ( 00:20 ) 1 file	All

Parallel session - Spectra PWG

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan

(Roessler 55 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
17:00	Discuss paper plans from the results presented at QM2008 (QM2006); plans for SQM2008 and QM2009 ( 17:30 ) 0 files	All

Parallel session - Peripheral collisions PWG

(14:00 - 17:30)

Parallel session - High-Pt PWG

Conveners: Jana Bielcikova, Marco van Leeuwen

(14:00 - 17:30)

Parallel session - Heavy Flavor PWG

Conveners: Alexandre Suaide, Manuel Calderon

(Phys/Geo 416 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	BTag analysis update ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Mark Heinz
14:30	Electrons from BTag dataset ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Bertrand Biritz
15:00	Comparison of D0 variables from GEANT and reco ( 00:10 ) 1 file	Jonathan/Jaiby Joseph
15:10	Embedding status from heavy flavor ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Andrew Rose (LBL)
15:30	break ( 00:20 )
15:50	Running embedding by ourselves ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Anders Knospe (Yale University)
16:20	How to proceed with embedding? ( 00:30 ) 0 files	All
16:50	Analysis plans, QM2009, production, QA ( 00:30 ) 1 file	All

Parallel session - Event by Event PWG

Conveners: Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Aihong Tang

(Phys/Geo 140 : 14:00 - 15:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Search for Conical Emission with Three-particle Azimuthal Correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Claude Pruneau (Wayne State University)
14:30	Strong Parity Violation ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Dhevan Gangadharan (UCLA)
15:00	Parity Violation in Strong Interactions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jim Thomas (LBNL)
15:30	Coffee ( 00:20 )
16:00	E by E Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Gary Westfall (Michigan State University)

Parallel Session - BES Focus Group

Conveners: Grazyna Odyniec, Declan Keane

(432 Phys/Geo : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:45	Physics of the BES Program --- One Slide Presentations ( 00:05 ) 1 file	Declan Keane (Kent State)
15:00	Discussion of "Addressing the PAC Comments" ( 00:20 ) 0 files	All
15:20	Low Energy Data Analysis ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Rosi Reed and Debasish Das
15:40	Afternoon Break ( 00:20 )
17:00	Extension of tracking with GEM detectors to large eta ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Bernd Surrow
17:30	Detector Options Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 files	All

Parallel Session - Joint Spectra and BES Meeting

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Grazyna Odyniec, Declan Keane, Paul Sorensen

(Roessler 55 : 16:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
16:00	19.6 GeV Au+Au paper status ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Daniel Cebra
16:30	19.6 GeV HBT ( 00:10 ) 2 files	Zbigniew Chajecki (OSU)
16:40	22 GeV Cu+Cu data analysis update ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Orpheus Mall

BANQUET

Conveners: Manuel Calderon

(University Club : 19:00 - 21:30)

Friday, 20 June 2008 :: day 5

Software & Computing session 1

Conveners: Jerome Lauret

(Roessler 66 : 10:20 - 14:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Town Meeting: Long Term Future of STAR ( 00:45 ) 0 files	Dscussion Moderator: Zhangbu Zhu
10:20	Coffee break ( 00:15 )
10:35	FTPC status ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Micheal Skoby (Purdue)
10:55	BEMC overview ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Matthew Walker (MIT)
11:15	TOF Year8 status and preparation for Year9 ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Xin Dong (LBNL)
11:35	Data Readiness activities and status report ( 00:25 ) 1 file	Gene Van Buren (BNL)
12:00	Lunch ( 02:00 )

Software & Computing session 2

Conveners: Gene Van Buren

(Roessler 66 : 14:00 - 17:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	SVT status - progress toward embedding ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Stephen Baumgart (Yale)
14:20	SSD embedding integration status ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jonathan Bouchet (KSU)
14:40	Future of Embedding, an overview of past and incoming activities ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Lee Barnby (BHAM)
15:00	Reconstruction, production and projects status ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jerome Lauret (BNL)
15:30	Coffee break ( 00:20 )
15:50	Offline integration of RTS and EVP, toward a single framework ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Valeri Fine (BNL)
16:10	Grid project summary ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Douglas Olson
16:30	Setting up a Tier2 site, Prague experience ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Michal Zerola (NPI-AS)
16:50	UCM project status and results ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Valeri Fine (BNL)
17:10	Web service and Drupal overview ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Zbigniew Chajecki (OSU)

Saturday, 21 June 2008 :: day 6

Plenary session - PWG Summary 1

Conveners: Jamie Dunlop

(Roessler 66 : 09:00 - 14:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Summary of results from Spectra PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Lijuan Ruan (BNL)
09:30	Summary of results from Event Structure PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Lanny Ray (University of Texas - Austin)
10:00	Summary of Results from Event by Event PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Gary Westfall (Michigan State University)
10:30	Morning Break ( 00:30 )
11:00	Summary of results from UPC PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Spencer Klein (LBNL)
11:30	Summary of results from Strangeness PWG ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Lee Barnby (University of Birmingham)
12:00	RHIC Spin DOE report Overview / Delta G Workshop Summary ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Bernd Surrow (MIT)
12:30	Lunch ( 01:30 )

Plenary session - PWG Summary 2 & Wrap up

Conveners: Manuel Calderon

(Roessler 66 : 14:00 - 16:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Summary of results from Heavy Flavour PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Alexandre Alarcon Suaide (Instituto de Fisica da Universidade de Sao Paulo)
14:30	Summary of results from Spin PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Stephen Trentalange (UCLA)
15:00	Summary of results from HBT PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 files
15:30	Summary of results from High pT PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Jana Bielcikova

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