Conveners
Future facilities and experiment upgrades
- Daicui Zhou (Institute of Particle Physics-Hua-Zhong Normal University)
Thomas Ullrich
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
5/26/11, 3:00 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
Parallel
The probing of nuclei and nucleons via deep-inelastic and diffractive processes in the high-energy (low-x) regime will open a new precision window for the investigation of the gluonic structure of matter.
Studies of e+p collisions at HERA and especially d+Au collisions at RHIC have found tantalizing hints of saturated gluon densities, a phenomenon with substantial impact on the physics of...
Nestor Armesto Perez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
5/26/11, 3:20 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
Parallel
I will show the possibilities for electron-ion studies offered by the proposed electron-hadron collider at CERN, the Large Hadron-electron Collider [1]. After a short introduction on open problems at small x, I will briefly present the machine and detector. Then I will focus on small-x aspects in electron-nucleus collisions, first on inclusive measurements and the determination of nuclear...
Prof.
Alexander Sorin
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
5/26/11, 3:40 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
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New project NICA/MPD (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility/MultiPurpose Detector) is now under realization phase at JINR (Dubna). The main goal of the project is to start in the coming years an experimental study of hot and dense strongly interacting matter and search for possible signs of the mixed phase and critical endpoint in heavy ion collisions. This study should be carried out at...
Prof.
Thomas Peitzmann
(Universiteit Utrecht)
5/26/11, 4:00 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
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The ALICE experiment is specifically designed for the study of strongly interacting matter as created in heavy ion collisions at LHC. With some of its particular features, like the very good measurement of low momentum particles and the particle identification capabilities it also provides unique measurements in p+p collisions. However, very recent developments in heavy ion physics suggest...
Anne Sickles
(Brookhaven)
5/26/11, 4:20 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
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The first decade of RHIC physics and the first heavy ion running at the LHC have produced a wealth of data and discoveries. It is timely to now evaluate what has been learned and ask what compelling new questions have been raised. In this talk, several key unanswered questions about the properties of the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and the distribution of partons inside nucleons and...
Prof.
Carl Gagliardi
(STAR Collaboration)
5/26/11, 4:40 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
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The STAR Collaboration has identified eight key questions that will drive RHIC science during the coming decade, six of which involve ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. What is the nature of the initial state in nuclear collisions? What are the properties of the strongly-coupled system produced at RHIC, and how does it thermalize? Are the interactions of energetic partons with QCD...
Dr
Ken Oyama
(University of Heidelberg)
5/26/11, 5:00 PM
Experiments upgrade, future facilities and instrumentations
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Measurements of reference trigger cross sections were obtained with the ALICE detector, based on beam properties measured from van der Meer scans where convolution of the beam profiles were evaluated. The measurement is essential for absolute cross section determination of the physics processes.
Based on this measurement, inelastic cross sections characterizing proton-proton collisions at...
