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STAR Collaboration Meeting (Fall 2009 LBL)

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Monday, 5 October 2009 :: day 1

Conveners: Xin Dong

(66-Auditorium : 09:00 - 12:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	QCD in Hadron Physics: Partons, Factorization, ... ( 00:50 ) 1 file	Feng Yuan (LBNL)
09:50	FMS + FTPC analysis: status report ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jim Drachenberg (Texas A&M Univ.)
10:10	FHC cosmic ray test ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Xuan Li (Shandong Univ.)
10:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
11:00	K/pi and p/pi fluctuation study using Run 7 data ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Hui Wang (Michigan State Univ.)
11:20	v1 analysis at 22.4 GeV CuCu data using BBC event plane ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Yadav Pandit (Kent State Univ.)
11:40	Search for QCD Critical Point: High Moment of Event by Event Multiplicity Distribution ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Xiaofeng Luo (LBNL/USTC)

HFT Review Preparation

(50B-4205 : 09:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
08:45	Physics of HFT ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Nu Xu
09:30	Project Overview ( 00:45 ) 1 file	F. Videbaek (BNL)
10:15	Break ( 00:15 )
10:30	Pixel subsystem ( 00:30 ) 1 file	H. Wieman
11:00	Pixel sensors electronics ( 00:25 ) 1 file	L. Greiner
11:25	Pixel sensor development ( 00:20 ) 0 files	M. Winter, IPHC
11:45	IST sensors ( 00:45 ) 2 files	B. Surrow
12:30	lunch ( 01:15 )
13:45	SSD upgrade ( 00:45 ) 1 file	M. LeVine
14:30	Cone mechanical, integration ( 00:45 ) 1 file	E. Anderssen
15:15	HFT Management ( 00:45 ) 1 file	F. Videbaek
16:00	HFT Summary ( 00:10 ) 0 files	H.G. Ritter

Lunch

(12:00 - 14:00)

Juniors Afternoon Session

Conveners: Xin Dong

(66-Auditorium : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	STAR in LHC era (Lecture) ( 00:50 ) 1 file	Helen Caines (Yale Univ.)
14:50	HLT - Run 9 results and Run 10 preparation ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Hao Qiu (IMP, Lanzhou)
15:10	Centrality determination in d+Au collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Chitrasen Jena (LBNL/IoP, Bhubaneswar)
15:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
16:00	Low pT J/psi production in d+Au collisions ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Olga Hajkova (Czech Technical Univ.)
16:20	Pixel readout electronics for HFT in STAR - firmware ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Xiangming Sun (LBNL)
16:40	Discussion on Junior Affairs ( 00:20 ) 0 files	All (all)

Social event - BBQ

(LBNL Cafeteria - Bldg. 54 : 18:00 - 20:00)

Tuesday, 6 October 2009 :: day 2

Opening Plenary Session - STAR Status

Conveners: Helen Caines

(66-Auditorium : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Welcome and STAR Status ( 00:15 ) 0 files	Nu Xu (LBNL)
09:15	STAR physics overview ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Bedanga Mohanty (VECC)
09:45	Upgrades Progress ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Flemming Videbaek (BNL)
10:15	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
10:45	Operations run 9 and preparation for run 10 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Bill Christie (BNL)
11:15	Report from Non Photonic Electron Task Force ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Huan Zhong Huang (UCLA)
11:45	FMS Review Report and Analysis Introduction ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Les Bland (BNL)
12:15	Update from Spin Task Force ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)

Lunch

(13:00 - 14:00)

Spin Physics Working Group

Conveners: Jim Sowinski Ernst Sichtermann

(66-Auditorium : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Eta analysis update; photon splitting, energy scale ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Len Eun
14:40	Pion A_N analysis update ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jim Drachenberg
15:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
16:00	Di-jet analysis ( 01:00 ) 1 file	Matt Walker

LIght Flavor Spectra PWG

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Jun Takahashi

(70-191 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Heavy Flavor

Conveners: Jaroslav Bielcik, Gang Wang, Xin Dong

(70A-3377 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	NPE analysis in run 2008 p+p ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Wei Xie (Purdue Univ.)
14:30	NPE analysis in run 2005/6 p+p ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Shingo Sakai (UCLA)
15:00	NPE analysis with TOF in 2008 p+p ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Fu Jin (SINAP)
15:30	Coffee Break ( 00:15 )
15:45	NPE analysis in run 8 d+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xin Li (Purdue Univ.)
16:15	NPE analysis in run 2008 d+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Wenqin Xu (UCLA)
16:45	NPE analysis in CuCu 2005 ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Anders Knospe (Yale Univ.)
17:30	NPE analysis discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 files	All (all)

Bulk Correlations PWG

Conveners: Evan Finch, Paul Sorensen, Sudhir Raniwala

(2-100B : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Forward Backward Identified Particle Correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Michael Skoby
14:30	High moments of Event by Event Multiplicity Distribution: Au+Au sqrt(S_{NN})=19.6GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xiaofeng Luo
15:00	High moments of Event by Event Multiplicity Distribution: Model Calculation ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xiaofeng Luo
15:30	coffee break ( 00:15 )
15:45	Fluctuations from run 7 data ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Hui Wang
16:30	PMD DCC search and e- identification ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Prithwish Tribedy

Jetlike Correlations PWG

Conveners: Joern Putschke, Lanny Ray, Fuqiang Wang

(66-316 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Pt dependent eta,phi correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Chananka DeSilva (Wayne State University)
14:30	RP dependent di-hadron corrleations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Josh
15:00	Hijing studies of charge asymmetry ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Quan
15:20	RP cumulant method ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Quan
15:40	Coffee break ( 00:15 )
15:55	Run10 discussion ( 00:45 ) 0 files	All

Peripheral Collisions

Conveners: Yury Gorbunov, Wlodek Guryn

(70-228 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Management and Convenors

Conveners: Bedanga Mohanty

(70-191 : 18:00 - 20:00)

Wednesday, 7 October 2009 :: day 3

Heavy Flavor Physics Working Group Parallel Session

Conveners: Jaroslav Bielcik, Gang Wang, Xin Dong

(50A-5132 : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Update on D-meson reconstruction in Run 7 AuAu ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Sarah LaPointe (Wayne State Univ.)
09:30	Update on the micro-vertexing for the D0 reconstruction ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jonathan Bouchet (Kent State Univ.)
10:00	Update on the CuCu open charm paper ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Stephen Baumgart (Yale Univ.)
10:30	Coffee Break ( 00:15 )
10:45	Simulation study on D-meson reconstruction with help of TOF in Run 9 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	David Tlusty (NPI, Czech)

Spin Physics Working Group

Conveners: Ernst Sichtermann, Jim Sowinski

(Perseverance Hall (54-130) : 09:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	W analysis ( 01:00 ) 2 files	Joe Seele
10:00	Simulations - EEMC geometry revision and impact ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jason Webb
10:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
11:00	Discussion - run 9, future runs, publications ( 01:00 ) 0 files

lfspectra parallel session

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Jun Takahashi

(70-191 : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Implications of Rcp and eta asymmetry in d+Au 200 GeV collisions within AMPT model ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xiaoping Zhang
09:30	analysis update on PID ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Chitrasen Jena
10:00	centrality determination update in dAu ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Chitrasen Jena
10:30	coffee break ( 00:30 ) 0 files
11:00	talk rehearsal: Recent results on identified particle spectra from d+Au collisions at RHIC ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Chitrasen Jena
11:30	Lambda 1520 update in 200 GeV CuCu collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Masayuki Wada (University of Texas at Austin)
12:00	Xi (1530) update in 200 GeV CuCu collisions ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Richard Witt
12:30	Ks, Lambda and anti-Lambda update in 19.6 AuAu collisions ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Kyle Englund-Krieger

Jetlike Correlations PWG

Conveners: Joern Putschke, Lanny Ray, Fuqiang Wang

(Perseverance Hall (54-130B) : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
10:00	Jet shapes in AuAu and pp ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Alan Davila
10:30	Strangeness in Jets ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Anthony Timmins
11:00	Jet-hadron correlations wrt to RP ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Alice Ohlsen (via EVO)
11:30	Jets in Year8 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jan Kapitan (TBC)

Bulk Correlations PWG

Conveners: Sudhir Raniwala, Paul Sorensen, Evan Finch

(2-100B : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	v2{4} from run 7 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Dhevan Gangadharan
09:30	Flow analyses (preparation for BES) ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Michael Mitrovski
10:00	v2/n error estimates for BES ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Jinhui Chen
10:30	coffee break ( 00:30 )
11:00	eta/s from the shape of v2(pt) ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Shusu Shi
11:30	Status of Au+Au pid v2 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Na Li
12:00	Collapse of the proton v1 ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Aihong Tang for Jiayun Chen

Peripheral Collisions

Conveners: Yury Gorbunov, Wlodek Guryn

(66-316 : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	triggering in run 10, status of 62 GeV paper ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Yury Gorbunov
09:20	phi analysis ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Janet Seger
09:40	status of the rho' paper ( 00:10 ) 0 files	Boris Grube
09:50	information from calorimeter in J/psi triggered events ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Ramiro Debbe
10:10	Rho interference - the next step(s) ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Spencer Klein
10:30	status of the pp2pp program ( 00:40 ) 1 file	Wlodek Guryn
11:10	Alignment ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Donika Plyku
11:40	TBD ( 01:20 ) 0 files

Lunch

(12:30 - 14:00)

Bulk Correlations PWG

Conveners: Evan Finch, Paul Sorensen, Sudhir Raniwala

(2-100B : 13:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	v1 at 22.4GeV CuCu collision ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Yadav Pandit
14:30	PV with run 7 ZDC-SMD ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Gang Wang
15:00	ptpt correlations (QA studies) ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Monika Sharma (Wayne State University)
15:30	coffee ( 00:30 )
16:00	2 particle correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Larry Tarini (Wayne State University)

Heavy Flavor Physics Working Group Parallel Session

Conveners: Jaroslav Bielcik, Gang Wang, Xin Dong

(50A-5132 : 14:00 - 18:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Update on low pT J/psi in AuAu and paper status ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Daniel Kikola (LBNL)
14:30	Update on low pT J/psi in dAu ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Chris Powell (LBNL)
15:00	Low pT J/psi in dAu ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Olga Hajkova (Czech Tech. Univ.)
15:30	Coffee Break ( 00:15 )
15:45	J/psi analysis in pp 2008 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Barbara Trzeciak (Warsaw Univ. of Tech.)
16:15	Quarkonium update ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Matt Cervantes (Texas A&M Univ.)
16:45	Update on Upsilon analysis/paper ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Rosi Reed (UC Davis)
17:15	DNP talk rehearsal ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Rosi Reed (UC Davis)
17:45	DNP talk rehearsal ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Chris Powell (LBNL)

Peripheral Collisions

Conveners: Yury Gorbunov, Wlodek Guryn

(66-316 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Joint Jetlike Correlations - Spin meeting

Conveners: Joern Putschke, Lanny Ray, Fuqiang Wang, Jim Sowinski, Ernst Sichtermann

(Perseverance Hall (54-130) : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Update on inclusive jets ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Mateusz Ploskon
14:30	Underlying Event ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Helen Caines
15:00	Hadronic Energy Corrections ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Pibero Djawotho
15:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
16:00	Di-jet cross section analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Matt Walker
16:30	Discussion - jet methods paper ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Elena Bruna, All

lfspectra parallel session

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Jun Takahashi

(70-191 : 14:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	analysis on Cu+Al collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Brooke Hagg
14:30	analysis update in 22.4 CuCu collisions - TPC dE/dx at low momentum ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Orpheus Mall
15:00	update on 19.6 GeV paper ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Daniel Cebra
15:30	U+U simulation ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Daniel Cebra's student
16:00	coffee break ( 00:30 ) 0 files
16:30	Light Nucleus Production in p+p and d+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 file	W.J. Llope (Rice University)
17:00	Summary of SQM2009 ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Anthony Timmins

STAR Council Meeting

Conveners: Hank Crawford

(Perseverance Hall (54-130) : 18:30 - 22:00)

Thursday, 8 October 2009 :: day 4

Plenary Theory Session - Thermalization

Conveners: Nu Xu

(66-Auditorium : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Dileptons ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Volker Koch (LBNL)
09:45	How to Find the QCD Critical Point at RHIC, if it is at mu_B <= 400 MeV ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)
10:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
11:00	STAR results on thermalization ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Bedanga Mohanty (VECC)
11:30	Candidate future measurements for thermalization using light quark carrying hadrons STAR ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Aihong Tang (BNL)
12:00	Candidate future measurements for thermalization using heavy quark carrying hadrons and direct radiation STAR ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Thomas Ullrich (BNL)
12:30	Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 files	ALL

Embedding

Conveners: Bedanga Mohanty, Jerome Lauret

(Perseverance Hall (54-130) : 14:00 - 16:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Embedding organization and structure ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jerome Lauret (BNL)
14:20	Embedding opened problems ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Renee Fatemi (UKY)
14:40	Opened floor PWGC feedback ( 00:20 ) 0 files	All (All)
15:00	Discussion on the provisioning of EH ( 00:20 ) 0 files	All PWGC (All)
15:20	Macro support & commitments ( 00:20 ) 0 files	All (All)
15:40	Lfspectra presentation ( 00:05 ) 1 file	Lijuan Ruan/Jun Takahashi
15:45	HF PWG Presentation ( 00:05 ) 1 file	Xin Dong (LBNL)

Joint Bulk Correlations - Light Flavor Spectra meeting

Conveners: Lijuan Ruan, Jun Takahashi, Sudhir Raniwala, Paul Sorensen, Evan Finch

(Perseverance Hall (54-130) : 16:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
16:00	Full Field vs Half Field during BES ( 00:45 ) 1 file	Dan Cebra
16:45	BES Trigger Questions and discussion of PHENIX note ( 00:45 ) 0 files	Jamie Dunlop
17:30	Two-pion Source Imaging with the STAR Experiment ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Paul Chung

Heavy Flavor Physics Working Group Parallel Session

Conveners: Jaroslav Bielcik, Gang Wang, Xin Dong

(70A-3377 : 16:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
16:00	Study on J/psi L2 trigger ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Thomas Ullrich (BNL)
16:30	Run 10 Plan Discussion ( 01:00 ) 0 files	All (all)

Spin Physics Working Group

Conveners: Ernst Sichtermann, Jim Sowinski

(50B-4205 : 16:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
16:00	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
16:30	DNP Practice Talks ( 01:30 ) 0 files	All

Jetlike Correlations PWG

Conveners: Joern Putschke, Lanny Ray, Fuqiang Wang

(Perseverance Hall (54-130B) : 16:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
16:00	DNP talk: Forward d+Au + further updates ( 00:45 ) 2 files	Andrew Gordon
16:45	Update 2+1 paper status ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Kolja
17:15	Update 2+1 in Run8 d+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Hua

Peripheral Collisions

Conveners: Yury Gorbunov, Wlodek Guryn

(70-228 : 16:00 - 18:00)

Collaboration Dinner

(Hotel Shattuck Plaza : 19:00 - 21:00)

Friday, 9 October 2009 :: day 5

Plenary Session - Science and Computing

Conveners: Jerome Lauret

(66-Auditorium : 09:00 - 13:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	TOF progress and readiness ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Frank Geurts (Rice)
09:20	E/BEMC GEANT geometry study and reshape ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Jason C. Webb (Valparaiso)
09:40	h-/h+ Update and Calibration Readiness for Run 9 Processing ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Gene Van Buren (BNL)
10:10	Embedding activities and status ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Renee Fatemi (UKY)
10:30	Coffee break ( 00:20 )
10:50	Computing activities overview ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Jerome Lauret (BNL)
11:20	Database activities and performance tuning ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Dmitry Arkhipkin (BNL)
11:40	Multi-source data access and movement ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Michal Zerola (NPI/ASCR)
12:00	KISTI facility readiness, a status report ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Jerome Lauret (BNL)
12:20	Grid and network tuning activities ( 00:20 ) 2 files	Doug Olson (LBNL)
12:40	Online tracking for High Level Trigger in STAR ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Xiangming Sun (LBNL)

Plenary Session - Beam Energy Scan

Conveners: Declan Keane

(66-Auditorium : 14:00 - 17:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
14:00	Update of Energy scan program in STAR ( 00:30 ) 2 files	Grazyna Odyniec (LBNL)
14:30	Run - 10 Plans from Light Flavour Spectra PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Lijuan Ruan (BNL)
14:50	Run - 10 Plans from Bulk Correlations PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Paul Sorensen (BNL)
15:10	Run - 10 Plans from Heavy Flavour PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Manuel Calderon (UC Davis)
15:30	Run - 10 Plans from Jet-like correlations PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Joern Putschke (Yale University)
15:50	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
16:20	Run - 10 Plans from Ultra Peripheral Collisions PWG ( 00:20 ) 1 file	Yury Gorbunov (Creighton University)
16:40	Discussion ( 00:20 ) 0 files	ALL

Plenary Session - Collaboration Business

(66-Auditorium : 17:00 - 18:00)

Time	Talk	Presenter
17:00	STAR Council Meeting Report ( 00:20 ) 0 files	Hank Crawford
17:20	Open Discussion on Collaboration Issues ( 00:40 ) 0 files	Nu Xu

Saturday, 10 October 2009 :: day 6

Plenary Session - PWG reports

Conveners: Bedanga Mohanty

(66-Auditorium : 09:00 - 12:30)

Time	Talk	Presenter
09:00	Report from Light Flavour Spectra PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Lijuan Ruan (BNL)
09:30	Report from Bulk Correlations PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Paul Sorenson (BNL)
10:00	Report from Ultra Peripheral PWG ( 00:30 ) 0 files	Yury Gorbunov (Creighton University)
10:30	Coffee Break ( 00:30 )
11:00	Report from Spin PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Ernst Sichtermann /James Sowinski (LBNL/Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)
11:30	Report from Jet-like Correlations PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Joern Putschke (Yale University)
12:00	Report from Heavy Flavour PWG ( 00:30 ) 1 file	Xin Dong (LBNL )

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