LBNL STAR Hadron Group

RNC SOFT PHYSICS GROUP
(since 1998)

Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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The physics interest of the LBL Soft Physics Group is to study the formation and characteristics of the medium system created in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC energies, with focus on the single particle momentum spectra, azimuthal anisotropic distributions, two particle correlations, heavy flavor and electromagetic probe production by utilizing the STAR detector. We are studying/searching for the MATTER EoS with partonic degrees of freedom: partonic collectivity, thermalization, and the temperature of the system created at RHIC. We are also carrying out the program of exploring the QCD phase map to search for the first order phase transition boundary and the possible QCD critical point.

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Weekly Monday Meetings

Time: Monday 11:00am Pacific Time
Phone Bridge: +1-510-486-7333
Place: Nuclear Theory Lounge (70-228)

Dec. 20, 2010

Alex (20') - Update on the BES v2 results
Hiroshi (20') - First look at the v2 from Run10 200 GeV
Tatyana (20') - Sytematic comparison between di-electron cocktails in different models/experiments

Dec. 13, 2010

Tatyana(30') - Event generator - Pluto
Yifei(30') - Hadron cocktails in di-electron spectrum.

Dec. 6, 2010

Run10 200 GeV production QA

Jie
Hiroshi

200 GeV picoDst production QA

Chris

Nov. 29, 2010

Run10 200 GeV production QA

Jie
Hiroshi

Nov. 22, 2010

Daniel (50') - Low J/psi paper status

Nov. 8, 2010

Maxim (30') - Phi discrepancy between STAR and PHENIX
Xin & All (30') - Getting ready for 200 GeV analysis

Nov. 1, 2010

Alex (30') - Update on elliptic flow results in 39 GeV
Maxim (30') - Phi discrepancy between STAR and PHENIX & DNP talk rehearsal

Oct. 25, 2010

David (30') - Update on D0 in Run9 p+p
Xiaofeng (30') - DNP talk rehearsal

Oct. 18, 2010

Jie (30') - Update on di-electron analysis in 39 GeV
Alex (30') - Update on elliptic flow analysis in low energies
Maxim (not present) - Phi discrepancy between STAR and Phenix

Oct. 11, 2010 - canceled

Oct. 4, 2010

Alex (30') - Update on elliptic flow analysis from low energies
Xiaofeng (30') - Update on high moments analysis from low energies

Sept. 27, 2010

Leszek (20') - Pileup removal study in pp collisions
Chris (20') - Update on the J/psi in dAu
Patrick (20') - PID for Dilepton- and Lambda- analysis for the BES

Sep. 20, 2010

Alex (30') - Elliptic flow results from low energy data
Xiaofeng (30') - High moments results from low energy data

Sep. 13, 2010

Maxim and Jie (20') - TPC calibration status
Xin and All(40') - Preparing for Quark Matter

Aug. 30, 2010

Alex (20') - Elliptic flow at 39 GeV
Xin (20') - Simulation study on VPD/vertex efficiency in Run9 p+p 200 GeV
Zubayer (20') - Update on K/pi fluctuation in 39 GeV

Aug. 23, 2010

Alex (25') - Elliptic flow at 39 GeV and how the beam focusing distorts our event plane
Zubayer (20') - Update on TPC Twist (ExB) calibration
Maxim (15') - Update on phi analysis

Aug. 16, 2010

All (5') - Run10 production and calibration status
Xiaofeng (25') - High moments of net-protons and net-kaons in AuAu 39 GeV
Jie (25') - Elliptic flow of Kshort and Lambda in AuAu 39 GeV

Aug. 9, 2010

Maxim (30') - Discussion of phi->KK at 39 GeV analysis
Hiroshi (30') - Status report of phi and Omega v2 paper in Run7

Aug. 2, 2010

Jie (25') - Di-electron analysis in Au+Au 39 GeV data
Zubayer (25') - Preliminary results on K/pi fluctuation study at 39 GeV Au+Au collisions
Chris (15') - Update on dAu J/psi analysis

Jul. 19, 2010

Daniel (30') - Rehearsal of ICHEP 2010 talk
Xiaofeng (30') - Extract Thermodynamic Parameters with Higher Moments of Charge Fluctuation and Derivation of Chemical Freeze-out Scaling Formula

Jul. 12, 2010

Alex (20') - Vertex status/issue in BES
Maxim (20') - Status of phi meson analysis
Yifei (20') - Status of Run9 p+p 200 GeV non-photonic electron analysis

Jun. 28, 2010

Research Plan Discussion Cont. (60') - Alex, Jie, Maxim, Yifei, Xin, Chris

Jun. 21, 2010

Research Plan Discussion (60') - Daniel, Xiaofeng, Chitrasen, Zubayer

May 24, 2010

Alex (30') - Status of BES QA
Hiroshi (30') - Centrality selection in low energy data

May 17, 2010

Yifei (30') - D0 in Run9 p+p 200 GeV
Xin (30') - D* in Run9 p+p 200 GeV

May 3, 2010

Jie (30') - Di-electron simulation in p+p 200 GeV
Alex (30') - Status of BES QA

Apr. 26, 2010

Alex (30') - BES QA
Xiaofeng (30') - Kurtosis from 39 GeV fast offline data

Apr. 12, 2010

Yifei (30') - Di-electron analysis in Run9 p+p 200 GeV

Jie (30') - Di-electron simulation study

Apr. 5, 2010

Xin (30') - Discussion on Run 9 data production status and analysis preparation

Mar. 22, 2010

Maxim (30') - Phi discrepancy issue between STAR and PHENIX
Chitrasen (30') - Update on PID analysis in dAu Run8

Mar. 15, 2010

Nu (30') - Discussion on run status

Mar. 8, 2010

Xin (30') - Status of TOF in Run10
Xin (30') - Discussion on Plans for the BES program in Run 10

Feb. 22, 2010

Maxim, Zubayer, Hiroshi (30') - Calibration status for the current run
Hiroshi (30') - Paper proposal: Multi-strange hadron v2

Feb. 8, 2010

Xiaofeng (30') - Rehearsal of APS talk
Xiaoping (30') - Rehearsal of APS talk

Feb. 1, 2010

Shusu (60') - Rehearsal of HIT talk

Jan. 25, 2010

Chris (20') - Update on J/psi analysis
Nu, Xin (40') - Discussion on electron analysis with TPC+TOF

Jan. 4, 2010

Xin (30') - Run9 production status and physics topics
Yifei (30') - HFT simulation update

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Edited by Xin Dong, XDong@lbl.gov, 510-486-4121