STAR Future & Upgrade

 
  1. SN0773 - Jun. 2021: STAR Beam Use Request for run 22, 23-25
  2. SN0755 - Sep 2020: STAR Beam Use Request for run 21, 22, 23-25
  3. SN0721 - May 2019: STAR Beam Use Request for run 20 and 21
  4. SN0696 - May 2018: STAR Beam Use Request for run 19 and 20
  5. SN0670 - May 2017: STAR Beam Use Request for run 18 and run 19
  6. Post-shower proposal and review report  May 2016
  7. The RHIC Cold QCD Plan from 2017 to 2023: A portal to the EIC - Jan. 2016
    draft: December 2015
  8. Endcap TOF proposal-Jan. 2016
    draft: Jan. 14, 2016
  9. Event-Plane Proposal-May. 2016
  10. SN0648 - January, 2016 (proposal updated May 2017), STAR Forward Calorimeter and Forward Tracking Systems beyond BES-II
  11. SN0644 - Nov. 29, 2016, Technical Design Report for the iTPC Upgrade
  12. SN0640-Oct. 19, 2015, Physics Opportunities with STAR in 2020+
  13. SN0639-Oct. 15, 2015, Letter of Interest: CBM TOF as STAR Endcap TOF for BES-II at RHIC
  14. SN0625-May. 19, 2015, RHIC Beam Use Request for runs 16 and 17
  15. SN0619-Feb. 18, 2015, A Proposal for STAR Inner TPC Sector Upgrade (iTPC)
  16. SN0617-Jan. 19, 2015, a case for run16 pp510 (supplementary material)
  17. e-Print: arXiv:1502.02730,
    The
    Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC
  18. e-PrintarXiv:1501.06477,
    Exploring
    the properties of the phases of QCD matter - research opportunities and priorities for the next decade
  19. SN0606-Jun. 2, 2014, STAR Beam Use Request (BUR) for run-15 and run-16
  20. SN0605-Jun. 1, 2014, A polarized p+p and p+A program for the next years
  21. SN0598-Mar. 28, 2014, Studying the Phase Diagram of QCD Matter at RHIC
  22. SN0592-Oct. 1, 2013,  eSTARLetter of Intent
  23. 2014 Computing plan https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/private/psn0622
  24. SN0588-Aug. 21, 2013, EsNETHEP/NP Science Network Requirements 2013
  25. STAR Decadal Plan, December 2010, https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/public/sn0645 

STAR  Collaboration:
decadal plan,
eSTAR Letter of Intent,
Beam Energy Scan Whitepaper,
A Polarized p+p and p+A program in the coming years 
eRHIC CDR
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1409/1409.1633.pdf 

********* 
2015 Long Range Plan:

The charge letter can be found at the URL:
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/20140424/NSAC_LRP_Charge_04242014_Hallman.pdf

Hot QCD Town Meeting Summary: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/HotQCD_TM_Summary_final.pdf  
 


Town Meetings:
3. QCD:Hadron + Heavy Ion to meet together
QCD Heavy Ion Conveners: Paul Sorensen (Brookhaven National Laboratory) and Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)
QCD Hadron Conveners: Haiyan Gao (Duke University) and Craig Roberts (Argonne National Laboratory)
Meetings of interest:
EIC Users group meeting at Stonybrook, June 27-29, 2014
Users meeting of JLAB: at JLAB on June 1,2, 2014
Users meeting of RHIC: at BNL on June 17-20, 2014
High Performance Computing (Computation in Nuclear Physics), Washington DC, July 14-15, 2014

<<<<

Past and current upgrade proposals (2005 - 2010) are given in the proposal page (updated Feb 14, 2010)

The RHIC Mid-Term Strategic Plan Status as of February 2008 by Tom Ludlam

 

Summary Report of Workshop on Physics in the DAQ1000 Era (internal, August 16-17 2007)

RHIC II Science Cases (RHIC Future, December 2006)

STAR Decadal Plan (internal - September 2003)
 

Final Report from the Detector Upgrades Review, March 2006

Highlights of STAR Mid-Term Upgrades (2007)

Working Group HyperNews/Mailing List (internal)
 

STAR Upgrade Workshop at UCLA (December 15-16, 2011)

STAR Upgrade Workshop at BNL (June 11-12, 2012)

STAR R&D and upgrades for 2012 

Workshop Summary

2006 R&D

Proposal for FY06 R&D Aimed at Developing A Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR
 
R& D proposal: STAR Inner and Forward Tracking Upgrade (.pdf) (.ps)

R&D proposal for a prototype Muon Telescope Detector

Crystal Detector R&D Proposal for Soft Photon Measurement in STAR

Proposal for R&D towards a measurement of direct photon HBT with STAR (.pdf) (.doc)

Proposals

 

 The page contains the documents for proposal, new, those upgrades in progress and the past proposal for upgrades that has been implemented. Review committees for the new proposals (Fall 2009) has been established. The charge and process for assessing and prioritizing these are given in the attached file.

Ongoing upgrades

eSTAR LoI and details at its bookpage

an Upgrade to the Inner Sectors of STAR Time Projection Chamber

HFT+ (an upgrade to HFT in 2020)

Forward Upgrade (Forward Calorimeter System and Forward Tracking System)

Heavy Flavor tracker

 

Heavy Flavor Tracker - June 8, 2006 
Heavy Flavor Tracker - October 10, 2007 

HFT CD-0 Review Report

   January 9, 2009: Letter to BNL; Report: Final versionExcerpts

 Conceptual Design Report, Nov 11, 2009

Future material will be posted on the child page HFT project

 

 

Forward Gem Tracker (FGT)

Forward GEM Tracker- December 29, 2007(MIT link)   local link

 

 

Quarterly report Q1Fy11

 


New Proposals

 

High Level Trigger (HLT)

LOI  2009 -- committee report (4/6/2009)

 Proposal October 2009

Final report from on proposal, February 2010

 

Muon Telescope Detector (MTD)

    Proposal  October 2009

    Report from Commitee received Jan 21, 2010 

    Revised Proposal February 10, 2010 submitted to BNL management. 

    A BNL lead review with DOE participation was held on September 17 2010. The talks are available at http://www.star.bnl.gov/~ruanlj/MTDreview2010/mtd.htm . The final report from the commitee was received October 23 2010.

Forward Hadron Calorimeter (FHC)

          HCAL East Proposal (July 28 2016)
          HCAL_proposal_140510.pdf (May 19, 2014)  

Forward Hadronic Calorimeter- November 15, 2008

Forward Hadron Calorimeter revised proposal- October, 2009

The document above is a combined, memo, old proposal, review report and upgrade to the original proposal including comments to review report question.

Report from the review committee received December 03, 2009

 

Phase II of physics with tagged forward protons

 Glueball Search and Diffractive Physics with the STAR Detector at RHIC - proposal, November 2009

 Final Report February 2010 

Revised proposal submitted to BNL August 5, 2010

 

 


Older proposal

upgrades that have now been completed. Kept for historical reference.

Time of Flight - May 24, 2004

Forward Meson Spectrometer - Jan., 13, 2005

DAQ 1000 - March 22, 2005

Tagged Forward Protons - July 12, 2005

 

Forward Upgrade Project

Upgrade proposal on Forward Calorimeter System and Forward Tracking System
Final version:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/FCS_FTS-proposal_20160119_final.pdf .
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/FCS_FTS-proposal_20160119_final.docx . 

Recent version:

Forward Upgrade of Calorimeter and Tracking for STAR () 02/28/2015

Base on recent Letter of Intent (LoI) on SN0605 : A polarized p+p and p+A program for the next years
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/public/sn0605

Detector Configuration, cost and schedule

FCS proposal cost and technical driven schedule. https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/FCS_proposal_v2.docx

FCS' technical realization

FTS+FCS weekly meeting

 

FTS+FCS meeting on 01/04/2016

 discussion on updated proposal:
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/lfspectra/ruanlj/FCS_FHS/FCS_FTS-proposal_20160104.pdf
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/lfspectra/ruanlj/FCS_FHS/FCS_FTS-proposal_20160104.docx

FTS write up:
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/lfspectra/ruanlj/FCS_FHS/FTSSimulationSummary.pdf .

FTS cost table:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/star-forward-tracking-system-upgrade-proposal-silicon-ministrip-detector 

FTS+FCS meeting on 07/20/2015

 1) zhangbu's presentation on uique physics topics with forward upgrades

FTS+FCS meeting on 08/03/2015

 1) one page write up for heavy ion part: jiangyong et al.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kf254pe5uj6kdeb/onepagev3.pdf?dl=0 

2) one page write up for pp, pA part: elke et al.:

3) full proposal status: ernst

4) high-impact measurements which need only continous running: elke
http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/estar/301/1.html .

5) background study to dijet measurements at forward rapidity: Anna Poulsen
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/Forward%20Di-jets%20bkgd.pdf .

FTS+FCS meeting on 08/10/2015

1) one page for pp, pA case: elke et al.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xu1piuii060pro4/pp.pA.OnePager.docx?dl=3D0

2) one page for AA case: jiangyong et al. 

3) early Sep meeting at BNL: paul, jiangyong et al.

4) full propose status: Ernst et al.

FTS+FCS meeting on 08/17/2015

1) one page update for pp, pA case: elke et al.
2) one page update for AA case: jiangyong et al.
3) Aug 24 meeting at LBNL: all https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/conference/timetable/talk/34288 .
4) full proposal status: Ernst et al.

 

FTS+FCS meeting on 08/31/2015

 1) news from Berkeley meeting:

action items: short document to ALD in Sep.
full proposal ready in Oct.
 
2)
combined pp, pA, AA short document is available here:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/ForwardUpgradePhysics.pdf
 
3) news from Friday meeting with ALD.
 

FTS+FCS meeting on 09/08/2015

 1) space availability:
http://www.star.bnl.gov/HyperNews-star/protected/get/estar/306.html .

2. hcal
a. cost estimation by oleg:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/hcal_only.pdf .
b. E864

3. configuration of em calorimater:
a. FMS+Preshower+Postshower.
b. phenix emc.

4. configuration of tracking;
a. silion tracking cost estimation by zhenyu:

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/star-forward-tracking-system-upgrade-proposal-silicon-ministrip-detector .
four disks: 3.8 million USD.

b. GEM tracking cost estimation by Bernd:

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/surrow/forward-upgrade-proposal-material-gem-option .
cost: 2.3-2.9 Million depending on how many disks we would like to have.

c. PHENIX-FVTX .

FTS+FCS meeting on 09/14/2015

1) configuration by John Scheblein.

2) reuse PHENIX EMCal: cost estimation by Oleg etc.

2) report from one-day heavy-ion forward physics workshop:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/conference/timetable/talk/34440 .
Quite productive meeting, a few action items are identified and theorists will provide a few money plots.
clearly need forward upgrade for baryon-fluctuation. vn(pt) at forward rapidity, ...

FTS+FCS meeting on 10/05/2015

1) STAR 2020+ document discussion:
I have compiled a list of the most common and general comments on
version 9 of the Opportunties with STAR in 2020+ document. If possible I would like to discuss these (and any other issues) during this meeting. The relevant links are: Compiled list of discussion items: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/Discussion_10-06-15.pdf
Last version of document: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/STAR-2020-v12_ref.pdf "

 

FTS+FCS meeting on 10/12/2015

 2020+ document:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/STAR-2020-v16.pdf 

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/STAR-2021-22case-Table-v3.pdf .

The meeting information is below:
Title: FCS+FTS weekly meeting
Description: FCS+FTS weekly meeting
Community: STAR
Meeting type: Open Meeting (Round Table)

Meeting Access Information:
SeeVoghRN Application
http://research.seevogh.com/joinSRN?meeting=vsvivIenevIlIIatasItas
Mobile App : Meeting ID: 101 4084 or Link:
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- Phone Bridge
ID: 101 4084

FTS+FCS meeting on 10/19/2015

1) 2020+ document by Helen and Renee:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/STAR-2020-v20.pdf .

2) FTS tracking at EICroot by Alexander.

The meeting information is below:
Title: FCS+FTS weekly meeting
Description: FCS+FTS weekly meeting
Community: STAR
Meeting type: Open Meeting (Round Table)

Meeting Access Information:
SeeVoghRN Application
http://research.seevogh.com/joinSRN?meeting=vsvivIenevIlIIatasItas
Mobile App : Meeting ID: 101 4084 or Link:
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- Phone Bridge
ID: 101 4084

FTS+FCS meeting on 10/26/2015

 1) drell-Yan study: Qian
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/tc88qy/DY_simulation/Fast_simulation_2.pdf

 2) FTS tracking update: Alexdander

FTS+FCS meeting on 11/09/2015

 FTS simulation status:
Alexander: see the file in the attachment.

wangmei: http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/heavy/Wangmei/FTSsimulation/plotsofhits/FTS_eSTAR_update.pptx

FTS+FCS meeting on 11/16/2015

 1) FTS simulation: Alexander and Zhenyu
2) E864-FCal performance results: Prashanth
http://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/bulkcorr/prashanth/hcal/eSTAR/ .

FTS+FCS meeting on 11/23/2015

1)resolution effect on vn measurement: Prithwish
2)FTS simulation
wangmei: 
Alexandaer:


FTS+FCS meeting on 11/30/2015

momentum resolution effect on vn measurement (see the attachment)
 
feedback from ALD on our 2020+ document

continue discussion of FTS simulations:
Zhenyu:https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/yezhenyu/zhenyu-yes-fts-simulation-studies-eicroot .
wangmei summarized what he presented before and added slides 14-17 (no material effect) as a sanity check. See the attachment.
Jason's presentation at S&C last Wednesday can be found at
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2015/11/25/software-and-computing-meeting/evaluation-fts-tracking-stv .

FTS+FCS meeting on 12/07/2015

 feedback from ALD on our 2020+ document and our possible future activities. 

More FTS simulation progress from Jason can be found here: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/jwebb/fts-tracking-stv-112415 .
We will not go through slides.
 

FTS+FCS meeting on 12/07/2015

 feedback from ALD on our 2020+ document and our possible future activities. 

More FTS simulation progress from Jason can be found here: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/blog/jwebb/fts-tracking-stv-112415 .
We will not go through slides.
 

FTS+FCS weekly meeting 07/27/2015

 1) jiangyong's presentation on heavy ion physics

2) elke's plot on x-Q2 for star pA drell-Yan measurements together with world wide data

Forward Physics Workshop in Heavy Ion Collisions on Sep 10, 2015

location: Conference Room 2-219, BLDG 510, BNL; time: 9:00 am to  6 pm on Sep 10, 2015
talks are here:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/conference/timetable/talk/34440 .

Agenda:

STAR Forward Upgrade Overview by Zhangbu Xu: 9:00-9:45 

Longgang Pang: 9:45-10:30

coffee break 10:30-11:00

Derek Teaney: 11:00-11:45

Bjoern Schenke: 11:45-12:30

Lunch break: 12:30-2:00

Gabriel Denicol: 2:00-2:45

Dima kharzeev: 2:45-3:30

Coffee break 3:30-4:00

Discussion: 4:00-6:00

Bluejean information:

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Room System:   199.48.152.152 / bjn.vc

Meeting Id:    553004419

Passcode:      5356

Phone Dial-In: +1 408 740 7256

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Meeting Id:    553004419

 

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Heavy-Ion Physics Cases for Forward Upgrades

Latest version (combine simulations from LBL/SINAP, text from Purdue and SBU)
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/forward_Upgrade_STAR_HI_Cases_v7.pdf 

1) Effect of Longitudinal fluctuation on extracting eta/s (Paul, Zhangbu)
2) v_n analysis using forward Energy (Jiangyong, Declan, Paul)
3) Ridge and Long Range correlations (Fuqiang, Jeorn)
4) Forward charm production in pp/pA and light/peripheral AA collisions (Zebo, Zhenyu)
5) Jet production in forward (light/peripheral AA collisions) (Helen, Joern)
6) Fluctuation of Baryon stopping (combine EPD and FCS) (Hank, Alex)

Xin-Nian Wang and his students have implemented our detector resolutions 
into their hydro calculation in event-by-event fluctuation effect, and the results 
are attached. The detector effect on the measurement of rapidity correlation is small: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/EtCorrelationWithFluc_Hydro.png  
more explanation is attahed in a pdf file: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/LongitudinalFlucAtRhic_Hydro.pdf

updated plots for 2020+

 updated configuration for STAR 2020+ :
4 disk for FTS. See the relevant plots by John Scheblein and Dmitry Arkhipkin .

HFT project

Projectl documents for the HFT upgrade project.

Documents related to the CD-0, CD-1 reviews and subsequent actions can be found (temporarely) here. Information on internal reviews, monthly reports are available in child pages. (Note the second Internal review is dummy- at end of list) 

The HFT received CD-4 approval on September 25, 2014.

 



There is another set of pages for HFT maintained by Spiros. LINK

Monthly Reports

 The HFT project send monthly reports to the BHSO (Brookhaven Site Office) which in turn cc them to the DOE program managers, Jim Sowinski.  Reports are gathered from the sub-system managers and finalized by the Contract Project Manager. They will usually be finalized within 6 business days each month. Each report covers from the first of the month to the end.The document is use as the basis for the monthly teleconference held, usually on the second Thursday every month.

The report contains brief status overview, followed by technical status reports on pixel, ist, ssd, integration and software, and
with milestone and cost updates.
The September 2014 was the final monthly report.



2014 Monthly reports


2013 Monthly Reports

2012 Monthly Reports

2011 Monthly Reports

2010 Monthly reports

 

 

OPA mini review September 24 2013

 An OPA min-review was held on September 24 as a video/phone conference





 

HFT Review July 12 , 2013

 It has been decided in view of the amount of work ongoing instead of the July OPA review to have an BNL lead informal review on the
project. It is tentatively scheduled for July 12. The charge is in the attached file

As more information becomes available it will be added to this page

agenda
 1.30 (30) Overview F.Videbæk
 2.30 (30) SSD status J.Thomas
 3.00 (30) IST status G.vanNieuwenhuizen
 3.30 (30) PXL Leo Greiner

Reviewers and instructions

The charge for this review and the report from the Feb. 15 review are also posted.  In the interest of keeping this review short, we have not scheduled an opening executive session.  With the exception of Laur Littenberg, all of you were present at the February review, and the three charge elements for this review follow directly from that.  We will follow the same assignments for leading the discussion and preparing the (brief) review report:

 

D. Lynn:  Pixel Detector

R. Lipton:  IST and SSD Detectors

R. Van Berg: Electronics

J. Lajoie:  Integration/installation/commissioning

L. Littenberg:  Management, schedule, cost

The report form the commitee was issued on July and is available in the list below.


CD0

 These files have been downloaded from the web site setup at BNL and used foir the review.
Got these from Kerry 9/4/2015

HFT 2014 Commisioning and Physics Run

 A page mainly with links to appropriate pages and documents for run 14 progress.


PXL

PXL expert running log of activities (google doc)

HFT BNL review Feb 15 2013

 The review took place at BNL on Feb 15. The talks are given below, including the commitee report

HFT Management , including f2f meeting schedules

Management information for HFT.

There are several project specific mailing lists. Pertinent information on these can be found in this document

HFT management has roughly every 2-3 months face-to-face or phone conference meeting dealing with project status, and detailled sub-system reports.
The meeting content is usually placed on the STAR event drupal page. The list below includes the most recent, but not all historical links.


2014

June 10, 2014: Face-2-face meeting at LBNL to prepare for the CD-4 Closeout review
Link to meeting agenda and talks.

2013

September 10 at LBNL during STAR collaborations meeting.
Star HFT focus meeting. Link to agenda and talks 

July 10, HFT software workshop
link to agenda and talks

2012

Tuesday December 3, Phone/EVO link to agenda and talks

Tuesday September 25, LBNL link to agenda and talks
Monday June 18, UIC link to agenda and talks

Friday May 25, BNL link to agenda and talks 

Wednesday March 14, LBNL link to Agenda and talks  

Tuesday January 10, LBNL/BNL link to agenda and talks

2011

Monday November 14, LBNL link to Agenda and talks

HFT Related Publications

 
Project Documents

  • The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker - Technical Design Report  November 2011
  • The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker - Conceptual Design Report  November 2009
  •  

HFT Sub-system IST

 Documentation page for Intermediate Silicon Tracker (IST)


Reports & documents:

2015

IST cooling system repair summer 2015

2013

IST performance with cosmic ray data Yaping Wang pdf Initial report 2/22/2013

IST cooling system
2012




2011

IST sensor review recommendations Jan 2011  pdf

HFT Sub-system Integration

 Integration sub -system. 
reports, links to pictures

Installation
  • Assembly Notes for the Fall 2012 Assembly of the HFT Carbon Fiber Support structure, including the new beam pipe.   Bill Christie & Bob Soja word document
  • IDS assembly document for Fall 2012 word document
Mechanical for IDS

Electrostatics for IDS
  • Results of electrostatics tests at UIC Gerard Visser  word document  2011
  • Effect of ledge and aluminized mylar for WSC  Howard Wieman Fall 2011 powerpoint
  • Summary of Electrostatic Field Calculations for WSC Design DickMajka 19 August 2010 word document

Beam Pipe
  • Beam pipe design considerations D.Beavis, J.Brodowski, J.Scheblein, E.Andersen, 2009 file
  • Beam pipe effective radiation length design D.Beavis 2009 file


Pictures
  • September 2012 Assembled and ready to install IDS by BNL photography LINK

HFT Sub-system PXL


(Credit Berkeley Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt,
Copyright Notice:

The PXL documentation primarely exsits on Leo Greiner's rnc webpage.
The content here primarely reflect a copy of content on that page and reports that has been circulated in the HFT group
See rnc.lbl.gov/hft/hardware/docs/ for full listing

Internal Reports:

2015

PXL removal procedure (Rahul Sharma + Bob Soja)

PXL run-14 damage report (G.Conti, L.Greiner)

2014

Operation

PXL expert instruction manual (June 2014)

Commisioning

QA plots from runs
http://portal.nersc.gov/project/star/sss/protected/Run14QA/

PXL insertion 

Insertion checklist  south (HW) 1/25/14
insertion checklist  north


Technical information

Additional PXL sensor testing  (3/30/14) LG  word file
PXL temperature interlock (4/7/14   ) LG,MS, HW  word file

PXL vibration and stability Howard Wieman (1/7/14) pdf

Final sector model and survey points for PXL sectors by Jo Silber for run-14 sectors  pdf


2013



Engineering  run:
  • PXL DAQ format word document  (version 6/6/2013)
  • pixel engineering run preparations, L.Greiner 04/23/2013 (word document)
  • Report on sensor failures during engineering run 09/13/2013 (pdf document)

mechanical:

Pixel insertion procedures with updated models
        - Howard Wieman powerpoint

PXL ladder assembly Problems and Lessons Learned , L.Greiner 03/06/2013 (docx)



Electric:

Temperature measurements on Ladder H.Wieman et.al. (pdf)
2012

Electric:


Mechanical:

Mechanical and dicing thinning yield 5 wafers ultimate-2
             - Leo Greiner draft document

Draft document for PIXL survey November 2012
             - Joe Silber  document

Insertion test instructions October 2012
             -   Howard Wieman document

Sensor and ladders dimensions October 2012. Design, layout of sensors and ladders, messurements
             - Joe Silber document

2011

PXL connectivity document v1.8 September 2011
            - Leo Greiner document

2010

HFT Sub-system SSD

 Documentation page for SSD

The older doumentation page is available at this link . Much of the information is still relevant.

2013

Installation

  • Ladder travelers (number schemes, ladder is, cable numbers,...) from re-installation

HFT annual OPA Review 2012

 

DOE/SC Review of the STAR HFT Project July 7-18

 

Presentations:

Project Overview   .......................F.Videbæk

Schedule and Budget .................. S.Morgan

Global Structure and Engineering E.Anderssen

PXL sub-system .......................... L.Greiner

IST subsystem ............................. G vanNieuwenhuizen

SSD sub system ........................... J.Thomas

 Integration and Assembly ............ R.Sharma

 Software ...................................... S.Margetis

 

DOE/SC closeout presentation

HFT software meetings (overview)

 Most software and related links are refered to in the link pointing to pages maintained by Spiros Margetis  LINK

Meeting page references

January 7, 2015 Minutes and contribution on eventpage
  •  Run14 production - last issues
  • Run 15 preparations
-----HAPPY 2015----------

December 10, 2014  SSD software workshop at Kent State
      time table on Event-page

December 3, 2013 Minutes and contributions on eventpage
  •   SSD hit correlation
  • KF vs. Minuit Vertex Finder  Daniel Kiola
  • Geometry check/modifications SSD - Fl
  • STI tracking opt - Hao
  • Gamma tomography - various
  • SSD update - Jon.
October 29 2014
  • Summary of meeting with S&C
  • minuit and KFvertex Daniel - link
October 22 2014
  • Meeting with S&C
  •  Subsystem updates
  • HFT+MTD simulation Bingchu link 
October 16 2014 talks on event page
  • gamma tomography Andrezj Lipiec
  • KFVertex vs. VMiniut  amilkar
  • SSD geometry test update Jonathan


May 23 aganda: talks at event page 
  • StiSsd udpade Jonathan
  • PXl Global Alignment  Michael
  • Simulation Update  Yefei
  • PXL and IST hits Amilkar

February 28 agenda, talks  at event page
Agenda
  • commissioning update 
  • Alignment checks
  • subsystem's update
February 21 agenda, talks  at event page
Agenda
  • commissioning update
  • subsystem's update

February 7 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • commissioning update
  • subsystem's update
January 31 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • IST status Yaping

January 24 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • IST status and Plans Yaping
  • SSD Geometry update
January 17 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • RUN-14 Preparations
January 10 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • QA - discussion
  • Request for subsystem status
  • SSD geometry update
January 3 agenda, talks and minutes at event page
Agenda
  • DCA-based alignment with zero field update
  • HFT geometry updates
  • UPC electrons in zero field simulations

December 20 talks on meeting event page
Agenda
  • Cosmic Run plan
  • SSD geometry update

December 12 special FACE-2-FACE BNL meeting event page
Agenda and Talks at the event page.

December 6 talks on event page
Agenda
  • IST/SSD alignment infrastructure work
  • PXL Pileup in Simulations report
  • Alignment updates from Mike and Xin
November 22 talks and minutes on event page
Agenda
  • IST survey and online histograms 
  • SSD DAQ reader update
  • Run-13 Pxl alignment for all sectors

November 15 talks and minutes on event page
Agenda
  • SSD survey work report. 
  • Geometry updates. 
  • Performance study for simulations
November 8 talks and minutes on event page
Agenda
  • Alignment work reports. 
  • Simulation work updates. 
  • IST and SSD software work progress reports
November 1 talks  on event page
Agenda
  •  Alignment challenge…with Blind Test on Simulation and Real Data. 
  • Simulation work updates. Xin circulated a plan and Jonathan is moving on setting it up.
  • IST software review. Yaping posted his latest updates. Last call before he sends this out
October 25  talks and minutes on Event Page
  • Agenda
    • Task-list: near term and readiness for Run14
    • Blind Alignment Tests and Simulations update
October 4  talks on Event Page
  • Agenda
    • LBL meeting agenda
    • FAST-QA preparations
    • Geometry/Simulation update
    • Analysis codes
    • Alignment with local histos 
September 27  talks on Event Page
  • Agenda
    • Alignment investigations
    • IST software preparations for the review
September 20  talks on Event Page
  • Agenda
    • DOE review
    • Alignement progress aand transformation puzzled
    • code review
    • simulation
  • PXL alignment slides ver 1.6 ver 1.5
  • Review software slides

September 13: talks and minutes on Event page
  • News, Software status and plans for upcoming reviews
  • PXL alignment

September 6: talks and minutes on Event page 
  • PXL alignment progress (pass 1.3) Spiros
  • IST Db Table proposal  Yaping
August 30 : talks on Event Page
  • HFT CA software  Jonathan
  • Event Display Update
  • IST software Yaping
  • Alignment Pass 1.3 Spiros
  • Global Plotting - Long Ma
           Minutes (Spiros)


August 23 talks on Event Page
  • IST software chain - Yaping (presented by Zhenyu)
  • Event display update -  Jonathan Bouchet
August 16 August 12  talks on STAR event page
August 2 talks on star event page
  • V0 finder with KFparticle Jonathan Bouchet
July 26 talks on STAR Event Page
  • Alignment pass1 and simulation results (5 files)
  • Pointing resolution and alignment between sectors (Xin Dong)

July 10 2013 Software Workshop
            Drupal event link



Geometry 

HFT numbering scheme. (May 13, 2013) version 7

OPA CD-4 Close-out review July 31, 2014


 An OPA pre CD4 review was held on July 31, 2014. It will be setup as a Video/Tele Conference with participants at DOE HQ, BNL, and LBL and
phone conference

Charge memo for the review (pdf)

Agenda

11:00 am HFT Executive Session....................................................................................... L. Nelson

   11:30 am      Project Overview.................................................................................... F. Videbæk

   12:00 am       Project Cost and Schedule—Q&A…………………………………… S. Morgan

   12:30 pm      PXL Status/Requirements—Q&A............................................................ L. Greiner

   13:00 pm     IST Status/Requirements—Q&A...................................................................... Z.Ye

     1:30 pm     SSD Status/Requirements—Q&A ........................................................... J. Thomas

     2:00 pm      Break

     2:30 pm      Lessons Learned, Transition to Operations , Contingency Spending Q&A F. Videbæk

     3:15 pm      Project Summary and Recommendation................................................... .L. Nelson

     3:45 pm      Executive Session

     4:30 pm      Closeout and Adjourn


Final Documents


Supporting Documents
Supporting Documents Refered to in Reports can be found in the following page


Closeout Report

The final version of the report with recommendation for CD-4 approval was received on September 4  pdf

The CD-4 approval was given on Spetember 25. Approval document pdf. Minutes from same meeting pdf


 


Report Reference documents

 Documents that are refered to in the requirements document

OPA mini-review October 2012

 One recommendation of the July OPA review was to conduct a mini-review in October, in particular to assess progress on SSD, but also to review progress on the few other recommendations.

The charge for the review was:

 

1. What is the status of the Silicon Strip Detector (SSD)?  Is management making progress towards addressing the technical issues of the SSD, and mitigating corresponding cost and schedule impacts?

 

2. Have there been any significant changes or risks affecting cost, schedule, and scope since the prior DOE/SC review?  If so, is appropriate management action being taken?

 

3.  Is the project addressing appropriately the recommendation(s) from the prior DOE/SC review(s)?

 

The review included 3 talks

- Overview F.Videbæk

- SSD Status J.Thomas

- Cost and schedule S.Morgan

 

The closeout had in essence the following recommendations:

      Submit BCR-4 to the NP Program Manager for review by November 1, 2012.

  •         Update the risk register and report changes to the NP Program Manager monthly beginning November 1, 2012.
  •          Provide preliminary summary lessons learned to date and corresponding project improvement actions to the NP Program   Manager by November 1, 2012.
  •          Report planned versus actual percent complete at WBS Level-2 beginning with the next Monthly Report.
  • ·         Conduct OPA mini-review in February 2013.

 

 

post CD-4 documents

 Following CD$ there has been a few follow-up reports. These reside on this page

The PXL group has created a report on the damage and repair plan for the PXL#2 detector. See word document

The project was also asked to update the transsition to ops document describing how to get to the optimum value.
This is attached below.

Quarterly meetings with DOE in FY15 to discuss progress

At the November 12 meeting DOE acccepted that the UPP has been met, congratulated the efforts, and declared no further meetings are
required.


HFT Internal reviews


HFT project internal reviews . This page mainly have links to other pages:

2013

  • SSD RDO review June 7 2013

 
2012

2011

2010

BNL cd2-3 pre-review

A BNL lead review was help on March 28-29 to address the readiness of the HFT project

for the DOE lead review, currently scheduled for July 13 and 14.

CD2-3 review

The CD2-3 review is scheduled for July 13-14, 2011 at BNL.

DOE documents will be place here as they are approved.

Technical Documents

  • Technical Design Report , June30  (TDR

DOE HFT Review july 13-14, 2011

 

      8:45 am    STAR and HFT Physics...................................................................... N. Xu, STAR spokesperson

     9:00 am      Project Overview.................................................................................... F. Videbaek

   10:00 am      Break

   10:15 am      Engineering Overview............................................................................. E. Anderssen

   10:40 am      PXL subsystem ........................................................................................ L. Greiner

   11:05 am      IST subsystem............................................................................................ G. van Nieuwenhuizen

   11:25 am      SSD subsystem......................................................................................... ..J. Thomas

   11:45 am      Integration and Safety Management........................................................ D. Beavis

   12:05 am     Cost & Scehdule .......................................................................................... S.Morgan

 

July 14              Close out presentation

 

Short close out report

Full (draft) report 

 

 

 

 

 

CD1 documents final

 The CD-1 ESAAB meeting was on August 31, 2010. 

 

CD0 - dummy

 

HFT+

Upgrade to HFT in 2020 workshops and materials: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/conference/timetable/talk/32215 https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/meetings/hft-upgrade-discussion-meeting/hft-upgrade-discussion

Related Meetings and Events

Call for STAR R&D requests for FY09, September 15, 2008

GMT Review Committee, September 12, 2008

HFT CD0 review, February. 25-26, 2008

FGT review, MIT, Jan. 7-8, 2008

Physics in the DAQ1000 Era, BNL, Aug. 16-17, 2007   - Drupal Page with Links to Presentations

Upgrades Workshop, BNL, Dec. 1-2, 2005

Tracking Upgrade Workshop, LBNL, Nov., 5,6, 2004

2004 Near Term Upgrades Workshop, Yale, June 15-17, 2004

Tracking Upgrade Meeting, MIT, Nov., 7,8, 2003

BNL HENP page - links to DAC and PAC recommendations, RHIC planning Group, BUR's and Decadal Plans, BNL 20 year plan, .

STAR Tracking Upgrade Working Group

 

Working Group Meeting Notes and Review reports

HFT Sub-system
FGT Sub-system
TOF Sub-system

GMT review committee report (November 2008)

SSD upgrade Committee Review Report (03/14/2008)

QT Board Committee Review Report (04/28/2008)

photonHBT convertor Committee Review Report

TOF DOE Committee Review Report (08/27/2008)

 

Notes from Sept. 9, 2003 (.doc)
Notes from Sept. 23, 2003 (.doc)

 

STAR Heavy Ion Task Force 2010

Charge to the STAR Heavy Ion Task Force

In response to the call for a new decadal plan from the BNL management, we are forming a Heavy Ion task force in STAR. This is an effort in parallel to two others in the collaboration: The Spin task force and Upgrade Program chaired by Bernd Surrow and Flemming Videbaek, respectively.

The members of the Heavy Ion task force are X. Dong, J. Dunlop* (chair), Y. Gorbunov, D. Keane, L. Ruan, M. Lisa, B. Mohanty*, J. Putschke, P. Sorensen, N. Xu* and Z.B. Xu and the charges are:
(1) Review current experimental and physics status at RHIC;
(2) Combine the information from RHIC mid-term plan, machine performance and experimental upgrades, prepare a HI program for the STAR for the next 3-, 5-, and 10- years.  The final report should be send to the STAR management in April, 2010. The outputs of the task force will be used for future BURs and RHIC decadal plan.
 

Simulations

.

Questions

Simulation Issues, 22-Sep-2003

Physics projection from HFT simulation (D0 RAA and D0 elliptic flow vs pT)

D0 RAA

Results

.

2007 R&D

SSD Readout Upgrade (Nov. 5, 2007)

Photon Converter Proposal (Nov. 12, 2007)

Event Plane Detector (Dec. 5, 2007)

R&D on a novel and compact Muon Telescope Detector for QCDLab (MTD)

T963 FermiLab Meson Beam Test For FGT and MTD (May, 2007) ;Test beam Results and Discussions

GEM Monitor for TPC (GMT) (October 15, 2007)

 

2008 (FY09) R&D

FY09 R&D requests:

SSD Readout Upgrade (Oct. 15, 2008)

SSD FY09 R&D request(Oct. 15, 2008)

High rate MRPC for Forward Event Plane Ring (Oct. 15, 2008)

R&D on a novel and compact Muon Telescope Detector for QCDLab (MTD)

HFT R&D (Oct. 15, 2008)

 

 

2016 R&D

 Forward calorimeter R&D 

R&D proposal for EIC: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/OTsai_onepage.pdf
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/OTsai_supportingdoc.pdf

Capital Equipment Requests for FY09

SSD Readout (Oct. 15, 2008)

FGT (Oct. 15, 2008)

EMC (Oct. 15, 2008)

GMT (Oct. 15, 2008)

GMT (Oct. 15, 2008)

Converter Cost estimate (Oct. 15, 2008)

Trigger QT (Oct. 15, 2008)

Trigger TCU (Oct. 15, 2008)

DAQ EVB (Oct. 15, 2008)

BSMD Readout (Oct. 15, 2008)

STAR RD and upgrades for 2014

 Three upgrades are being prepared for run-15. namely a peshower, refurbishing of FMS, and the RP-II*

In addition STAR made a call for R&D with deadline on December 15.


STAR RD and upgrades for 2014

 Three upgrades are being prepared for run-15. namely a peshower, refurbishing of FMS, and the RP-II*

In addition STAR made a call for R&D with deadline on December 15. The documents received are:

The talks at the February 10, review can be found athttps://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2014/02/10/star-rd-2014-and-itpc-review
on the STAR event page.








eSTAR LoI Draft

eSTAR LoI v31 a few clean-up, 10/05/2013

eSTAR LoI v30 with improved figure quality compared to v28, 09/30/2013

v28, for submission 09/29/2013

v23, implement comments from Collaboration, ALD and PHENIX
, 09/26/2013

v17, to the collaboration, 09/16/2013

zip file for all figures used in eSTAR LoI 09/24/2013

v14 to the eSTAR LoI committee -- 09/15/2013

Executive summary - initial draft dated 09/13/2013

Latest verion in 09/09/2013, eSTAR-LoI_v9 - comments sought and welcome, preferrably by 09/12/2013

 
 
 
 

Second draft dated: 08/26/2013 9AM
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR-LoI_draft_v1.pdf

First draft dated: 08/25/2013 9PM
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR-LoI_draft_v0.pdf

high resolution version: 
 

Section I: Introduction

update version:

Section II: Physics Highlights from EIC whitepaper and eSTAR Performance

DVCS figures

Latest versioin from Zhenyu
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/yezhenyu_20130908_DVCS_eSTARLoI_v2.docx

Generalized Parton Distributions (GPDs) provide invaluable information on how quarks and gluons are distributed inside the nucleon in the three-dimensional longitudinal momentum and transverse impact parameter space. GPDs may also provide the unique access to the total angular momenta of quarks and gluons in the nucleon and solve the nucleon spin puzzle. The deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) process is the theoretically cleanest channel to access the GPDs. As shown in [reference to the EIC white paper], the EIC machine is an ideal place to perform DVCS measurements accessing gluon and sea quark GPDs.

 
MC studies have been performed to examine the performance of the anticipated eSTAR detector for DVCS measurements using the MILOU generator [reference to MILOU]. While electrons and photons can be detected by the calorimeters and/or tracking detectors, protons by Roman Pot stations (RPs) covering 0.03<-t<2 GeV2, the exclusivity of the measurement will be assured by the full azimuthal coverage in -4<η<5.2 of the eSTAR detector. It has been found that a good acceptance in the x-Q2 plane can be achieved with the eSTAR detector setup, which is essential in examining scaling evolution effects predicted by the perturbative QCD theory and to extract gluon GPDs from such effects. Shown in Figure 1 are measurements of differential DVCS cross-sections and transverse target spin asymmetry projected on 1 fb-1 of data collected by the eSTAR detector in certain kinematic phase spaces.  The main background contribution to DVCS cross-section measurements is from the well-known Bethe-Heitler (BH) process. The latter is subtracted and a 3% uncertainty on its contribution is propagated into DVCS cross-section measurements. Other background contributions include low multiplicity diffractive meson production and π0/η semi-inclusive DIS production. Such background contributions to the DVCS measurements were found to be negligible by the HERA experiments. They are not considered here as the eSTAR calorimeter in general has better spatial resolutions than the ones in the HERA experiments. As can be seen in Figure 1, some decent DVCS measurements can be performed by the eSTAR experiment at the Phase-I eRHIC machine.

Diffractive Vector Meson figures

Diffractive vector meson production, e+Ae+A’+V where V=J/ψ, φ, ρ, or γ, is a unique process, because it allows the measurement of the momentum transfer, t, at the hadronic vertex even in e+A collisions where the 4-momentum of the outgoing nuclei cannot be measured. Since only one new final state particle is created,the process is experimentally clean and can be unambiguously identified by the presence of a rapidity gap. J/ψ with its compact dipole size is not particularly sensitive to the gluon saturation. Larger mesons such as φ or ρ are considerably more sensitive to saturation effects. We have carried out the simulation of these vector meson productions in the diffractive processes. Instead of deriving |t| from the 4-momentum of the scattered electron and the created vector mesons, an approximation using the transverse momenta of these two particles |t|=(pxe’+pxV)2+(pye’+pyV)2 is found to achieve good absolute value and resolution. The achieved resolution of st/t~=2.5% is shown to be able to allow eSTAR measurement to clearly follow the input diffractive pattern required in EIC whitepaper.
 

Dihadron correlation figures

Latest version from J.H. Lee

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/dihadron_loi.docx

Dihadron Correlation at 10X100 Q2=1 y=0.7 with STAR tracking smearing

 

Energy Loss figures

F2 g1 figures

SIDIS figures

Section III: Detector Configuration and Components

First version: 08/27 3AM
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/Detector_Configuration_Components_v0.pdf

i) current detector layout

ii) additional detector components by ~2020 (before RHIC completion) iTPC, FCS and RP II

iii) proposed detector upgrades for eSTAR ETOF, ETRD, BSO (CEMC)

iv) known performances and detector resolutions, and how they meet the EIC requirement
possibly two tables (one on detector list and eta coverage, capabilities
second table on specific electron, hadron PID coverages to be used in other sections

v)possible options and improvements other than the baseline eSTAR components
a) mainly item is the inner tracker (HFT') b)trigger components etc...

vi) IR design and impacts on detector and luminosity for eSTAR

Section IV: Simulations

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR-LoI_draft_v4_rhf.docx

Latest version from Renee and Ming
 
simulation of iTPC tracking comparisons between global vs primary tracks;

Fast Smearing Code:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/estarFastSmearCode.tar_.gz

Parametrization as outlined in eSTAR LoI section3,4 (Table 3.1).

HIJING iTPC from Hui Wang:

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/HIJING_iTPC_DevTF_global_primary.png

eSTAR electron primary (beamline constraint) vs global from Ming Shao

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR_electron_global_primary.png

The conclusion is that our parametrization (linear term, slope) is close to
global track, the primary tracks (with beamline constraint) is much better. 

 

version 1.0

Section V: R&D Projects

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR_RD_v0.pdf
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR_RD_v1.pdf

R&D projects:
iTPC: populate inner sector padplane and electronics design, mechanic design reducing material
FCS: W-fiber EMC+Sandwich HCAL with SiPMT readout
GEM base TRD
BSO based Crystal EMC: production and test
Endcap TOF: mechnic design, readout design

Other related activities (EIC R&D) possible for eSTAR:

GEM based mini-drift TPC
low mass tracking (GEM?)
HFT'
Electron PID (Cherenkov)

Section VI: Collaboration Evolution

cost and schedule (what goes into Table 6.1):

total project cost and technical driven schedule

FTS:

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/yezhenyu_eSTAR_20130423_3_0.pdf 
See also discussions at eSTAR meeting in April 2013:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/event/2013/04/23/estar-phone-meeting

FCS:
estimate and projection:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/FCS-Cost-Estimate-Sept-2013.pdf

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/star_upgr_Dec_2012.pptx

ETOF:

Total area coverage approximately 1/2*BTOF and 1/2*MTD,
project cost for BTOF = 8M$, MTD=3M$;
channel# between 1/2*BTOF and MTD;

GTRD:
total chamber area GTRD = 1/8*ALICE TRD
http://www-alice.gsi.de/trd/prop/trd_prop.pdf
Using iTPC electronics;

CEMC:

https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/BSO_EICF2F.pdf
Talk by Yifei Zhang at Purdue meeting in July 2013:
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/meetings/star-analysis-meeting/face-face-estar-loi/bso-trd-etof
 

eSTAR Task Force

eSTAR Letter of Intent:
Draft: https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/node/27990
Presentation to STAR council

eSTAR LoI Charges from ALD/BNL:
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/Charge%20to%20PHENIX%20and%20STAR%20Collaborations_v3_8May2013.docx

eSTAR LoI Charges from STAR Collaboration:
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/eSTAR_LOI_Charge_May2013.doc

eRHIC Design Study Document for LRP:
outline of eRHIC Design Study Document for LRP 2014

eSTAR Task Force:

Charges: 

In order to prepare the experiment to complement the ongoing physics programs
related to AA, pA and pp collisions with a strong ep and eA program by an
additional electron beam and prepare the collaboration to participate in the US
Nuclear Physics Long Range Planning exercises during 2012-2013, we establish
the eSTAR Task Force.
This task force will be in function during the next three years. The main charges
for the task force are:
(1) Identify important physics measurements and assess their science impact during
the eSTAR era (2017-2020). Prepare a white paper or an updated decadal plan
including physics sensitivities and detailed R&D projects.
(2) With (1) in mind as well as the eRHIC interaction region design(s) and other
constraints, identify and advise STAR Management on priorities for detector R&D
projects within the collaboration.
(3) Engage the collaboration by organizing special ep/eA workshops, document the
progress and report annually to the collaboration.
(4) Work with the STAR management and the EIC task force (setup by the BNL
management) to strengthen the physics case(s) for eSTAR and a future EIC.

 

Detector R&D:

Forward Spaghetti Calorimeter (FSC)(April, 2011)
 

Forward TOF/TRD (ETTIE) (November, 2011)
 

BBC Polarimetry (ANL) (November 2011)
 

Crystal BSO Calorimeter (USTC)(November 2011)

TPC Endcap Material pictures vs gSTAR

All EIC R&D Proposals (November, 2011)

EIC R&D Committee Report (12/23/2011)

Call for EIC Detector R&D
 

First-stage eRHIC Kinematics

EIC Event Generators

Wiki and mailing lists:

eRHIC Sciences and Configurations

INT Workshop Report on EIC science case

mailing list: estar-hn@www.star.bnl.gov

Biweekly EVO phone meeting:

eSTAR LoI Meeting since 07/29/2013
Monday 1-2PM (SeeVogh# 15 9119)

New meeting since 01/31/2012
Tuesday 12--1PM;
EVO 12 3569

Last Meeting was 01/18/2012:
Wednesday 12:30--1:30PM;
EVO ID 109811;
PLEASE check hypernews and drupal events for updates 

eSTAR Biweekly Phone meeting Agenda, Talks and Minutes


face-to-face meeting at UCLA, August 28-29, 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

Monday, August 12, 2013

Monday, August 5, 2013

Monday, July 29, 2013

face-to-face eSTAR LoI meeting at Purdue, July 17, 2013

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Tuesday, July 2, 2013 (eSTAR LoI)

Monday, June 24, 2013 (eSTAR LoI)

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 (eSTAR LoI)

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Tuesday April 09, 2013

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Tuesday, March 19, 2013


Tuesday, 01/15/2013


Tuesday, December 18, 2012


Tuesday, November 13, 2012


Tuesday, October 16, 2012
 

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Tuesday, 18 September, 2012

Tuesday, 04 September, 2012

EIC POETIC Workshop, August 20-22, 2012

Upgrade session at STAR Collaboration meeting, August 7, 2012

STAR regional meeting at Weihai/China, July 22--25, 2012

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Tuesday, 27 March, 2012

Tuesday, 13 March, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wednesday, January 04, 2012 (Happy New Year!)

STAR Upgrade Workshop at UCLA (December 12--13, 2011)

EIC R&D Committee review agenda (December 12, 2011)

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

LEGS GEM TPC, 2006 

ALICE TRD Online Trigger

Joint BNL/GSI R&D discussions

Upgrade Session at Collaboration meeting in November 2011

Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Wednesday, 26 October, 2011

Wednesday 10/05  (Inner tracker discussions) Minutes

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Decadal Plan+Upgrades+eSTAR at Analysis Meeting in August 2011

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

(July 2011) HFT Reviews, PANIC2011; TRD Idea

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Decadal/eRHIC at RHIC/AGS Annual Meeting in June 22, 2011

RHIC/eRHIC Long-Term Planning Workshop at RHIC/AGS Annual Meeting in June 21, 2011

Wednesday, 15 June 2011 (setup eSTAR webpage)

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Decadal Plan talk by Carl at Collaboration Meeting May 2011

First EIC R&D Call; Committee reviews in 9--10 May 2011

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Future STAR session at Analysis Meeting in March 18, 2011

STAR R&D Upgrade Meeting, 9 March 2011

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

February 10 (Minutes)