Speaker
Dr
Eugene Van Buren
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
A primary goal of the high luminosity era at RHIC will be the study
of heavy quark behavior in Quark Gluon Plasma. The integration
of high precision silicon-based tracking in the form of the Heavy
Flavor Tracker for the STAR Experiment should enable the
reconstruction and identification of charmed hadron decays,
working in concert with STAR's Time Projection Chamber to
determine momenta and displacement of decay daughters from
the primary collision vertex. To reach the precision demands, the
new detectors must be calibrated and sufficiently accounted in
tracking to observe charmed hadrons with high signal-to-noise.
In this presentation we will review the STAR Collaboration's
developments and achievements in this critical effort.
Primary author
Dr
Eugene Van Buren
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
