Speaker
Description
The first RHIC Beam Energy Scan (BES-I) provided an initial survey of
the QCD phase diagram by acquiring data from Au+Au collisions from
$\sqrt(s_{NN})$ = 7.7 to 62.4 GeV. Based on those results, a second
phase of the BES program, BES-II, has been developed and is scheduled to
run in 2019 and 2020. One of the proposed upgrades to STAR for BES-II
will be the addition of an end-cap time-of-flight system (eTOF). The
eTOF upgrade will employ 36 CBM TOF modules for the duration of BES-II.
The eTOF upgrade will extend STAR's particle identification (PID)
capabilities to higher momentum in the forward pseudorapidity range
provided by the iTPC upgrade. A fixed-target program, enabled by the
eTOF upgrade, will extend the energy scan below the 7.7 GeV lowest
energy of BES-I. In this poster, we discuss the improvements that the
eTOF subsystem will bring to the physics program of BES-II.
| Preferred Track | Future Experimental Facilities, Upgrades, and Instrumentation |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | STAR |
