Status and prospects of the RHIC Spin program

Speaker : Ernst Sichtermann ( LBNL )


Talk time : 09:00, Duration : 00:30

study 9 sensitivity of STAR at forward & mid rapidity

Under:

The goal is to provide overall STAR sensitivity for LT=100/pb & 300/pb.


Common assumptions:

Town meeting: PWG restructuring / 5-Year Run Plan - BUR

Status of STAR / RUN 8 Summary

Welcome

Parallel Session - BES Focus Group

TimeTalkPresenter
14:45Physics of the BES Program --- One Slide Presentations ( 00:05 ) 1 fileDeclan Keane (Kent State)
15:00Discussion of "Addressing the PAC Comments" ( 00:20 ) 0 filesAll (Kent State)
15:20Low Energy Data Analysis ( 00:20 ) 1 fileRosi Reed and Debasish Das (Kent State)
15:40
Afternoon Break ( 00:20 )
 
17:00Extension of tracking with GEM detectors to large eta ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBernd Surrow (Kent State)
17:30Detector Options Discussion ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAll (Kent State)

Town meeting: Long-term future of STAR

Speaker : Discussion moderator: Zhangbu Xu ( BNL )


Talk time : 16:45, Duration : 00:45

BSMD

Changes to the BSMD software and hardware are proposed to take advantage of the DAQ1000 improvements anticipated for Runs 9-10.  The previous hardware changes for Run 8 are also described.

Speaker : Steve Trentalange ( UCLA )


Talk time : 16:35, Duration : 00:10

Trigger Upgrades

GEM Tracking Alignment

SSD

HFT

Gamma-Gamma Converter

MTD

FGT

 Brief overview of the Forward GEM Tracking upgrade: motivation, technology, prototypes, status, and plans.

Speaker : Doug Hasell ( MIT )


Talk time : 14:00, Duration : 00:20

DAQ 1000 Installation progress

TOF installation update

B study from Yale


Talk time : 02:10, Duration : 00:20

B meson simulation


Talk time : 02:00, Duration : 00:10