2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

Aug 1, 2023, 9:00 AM → Aug 4, 2023, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University (mrosati@iastate.edu)), Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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The Annual RHIC & AGS Users' Meeting will be held on June 7–10, 2022. The meeting will highlight the latest physics results from the STAR and PHENIX experiments and provide an outlook with the future programs at RHIC and the EIC.

Workshops that will be held virtually on Tuesday and Wednesday June 7th and 8th will enable more in-depth discussions of the beam energy scan, studies of small systems, machine learning, cold QCD and spin, measurements of hard probes in heavy ion collisions, diversity, physics opportunities and detector developments at the EIC. There will be an online poster session on Thursday, June 9th. 

Plenary sessions will be held virtually on Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th. Reports on operation status, highlights from STAR and PHENIX experiments, an in-depth look at the upcoming sPHENIX experiment and EIC detectors, reports from representatives from the funding agencies, and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.

 

Event ID: E000004205

Note: This meeting falls under Exemption E. Meetings such as Advisory Committee and Federal Advisory Committee meetings. Solicitation/Funding Opportunity Announcement Review Board meetings, peer review/objective review panel meetings, evaluation panel/board meetings, and program kick-off and review meetings (including those for grants and contracts) are open to the public.

Tuesday, August 1

9:20 AM → 12:35 PM Beam Energy Scan

Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yue Hang Leung (LBL)

9:20 AM Measurements on Collectivity from STAR BES

Speaker: Xionghong He (Institute of Modern Physics)

9:40 AM Probing the QCD Phase Diagram via Higher Order Net-Particle Fluctuation Measurements from STAR BES

Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (NISER Bhubaneswar)

10:00 AM Recent Hypernuclei Measurements from BES Program

Speaker: Xiujun Li (University of Science and Technology of China)

10:20 AM Summary Talk

Speaker: ShinIchi Esumi (Univ. of Tsukuba, CiRfSE)

10:35 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Heavy-ion Collisions

Speaker: Mayank Singh (University of Minnesota)

11:10 AM Freezing Out Fluctuations

Speaker: Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (University of Illinois at Chicago)

11:30 AM Impact of Hadronic Interactions and Conservation Laws on Cumulants of Conserved Charges in a Dynamical Model

Speaker: Jan Hammelmann (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

11:50 AM Summary Talk

Speaker: Dmytro Oliinychenko (University of Washington)

12:05 PM Lunch Break

9:20 AM → 3:40 PM EIC Physics

Conveners: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Sylvester Joosten (Argonne National Laboratory), Tanja Horn (Catholic University)

9:20 AM Leptoquarks at the EIC

Speaker: Jinlong Zhang (Shandong University)

9:45 AM Jets and Heavy Flavor at the EIC

Speaker: XinBai Li (USTC)

10:10 AM Backward u-channel DVCS

Speakers: Bill Li (Stony Brook University), Wenliang Li (Stony Brook University CFNS)

10:35 AM Coffee Break

10:55 AM SIDIS Topics at the EIC

Speakers: Charlotte Van Hulse, Charlotte Van Hulse

11:25 AM Meson Structure

Speaker: Richard Trotta (The Catholic University of America)

11:50 AM SIDIS Observable Reconstruction

Speaker: Connor Pecar (Duke University)

12:15 PM Lunch Break

12:50 PM Neutron Spin via e+He3 collisions

Speakers: Dien Nguyen (JLab), Dien Nguyen (JLAB)

1:15 PM Heavy Flavor at the EIC

Speakers: Sooraj Radhakrishnan, Sooraj Radhakrishnan (Kent State University/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

1:40 PM Coffee Break

2:00 PM Tagged EMC effect

Speakers: Kong Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

2:25 PM DVCS and Epic Generator

Speaker: Kemal Tezgin (University of Connecticut)

2:50 PM Weak Mixing Angle at the EIC

Speaker: Michael Nycz (JLab)

12:35 PM → 3:20 PM Small Systems

Conveners: Chun Shen (Wayne State University), Takahito Todoroki (University of Tsukuba), shengli huang (Stony Brook University)

12:35 PM Collectivity and Baryon junction in Ultra-peripheral Collisions

Speaker: Wenbin Zhao (Wayne State University)

1:00 PM UPC Measurements at STAR

Speaker: Nicole Lewis (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

1:25 PM Search for Collective Effects in Small System obtained in ep collisions at HERA

Speaker: CHUAN SUN (Stony Brook University)

1:50 PM Coffee Break

2:05 PM PHENIX Summary of Small Systems

Speaker: Maya Shimomura (nara women's university)

2:30 PM Lambda Polarization Measurements in Small Systems

Speaker: Willian Matioli Serenone (alum@usp.br;student@usp.br;library-walk-in@usp.br;member@usp.br;affiliate@usp.br)

2:55 PM Future STAR Polarization Measurements in Small Systems

Speaker: Joseph Adams (Ohio State University)

3:20 PM → 6:20 PM Accelerating RHIC Science with Machine Learning

Conveners: Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab), Meifeng Lin (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Yale University and BNL)

3:20 PM Introduction

Speaker: Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

3:25 PM Deep learning for high energy nuclear physics from theoretical perspective

Speaker: Prof. Longgang Pang (CCNU)

3:55 PM Machine Learning based fast data processing and autonomous trigger for sPHENIX and EIC detectors

Speaker: Dr Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL)

4:25 PM Coffee Break

4:35 PM Machine Learning techniques in lattice QCD

Speaker: Denis Boyda (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:05 PM Machine Learning in Experiment and Analysis

Speakers: Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), James Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

5:35 PM Panel discussion

Speakers: Denis Boyda (Argonne National Laboratory), James Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory), LongGang Pang (Department of physics, UC Berkeley), Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Yale University and BNL), Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL), Yihui Ren

Wednesday, August 2

9:20 AM → 3:20 PM EIC Detector

Conveners: Alexander Kiselev (BNL), Friederike Bock (ORNL), Giacomo Contin (Universita' di Trieste e INFN Trieste)

9:20 AM Introduction

Speaker: Alexander Kiselev (BNL)

9:30 AM EIC General Purpose Detector requirements

Speakers: Dr E. C. Aschenauer (BNL), Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)

10:00 AM EIC tracker development and plan

Speaker: Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

10:20 AM Particle Identification

Speaker: Grzegorz Kalicy (CUA)

10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM Calorimetry

Speaker: Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:10 AM Far backward + Far forward

Speaker: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:30 AM DAQ & electronics

Speakers: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB), Jeff Landgraf (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:50 AM Lunch Break

12:35 PM EIC Project Detector R&D Program

Speaker: Patrizia Rossi (Jefferson Lab)

1:05 PM eRD101 - Modular RICH (mRICH)

Speaker: Deepali Sharma (Georgia State University)

1:20 PM eRD102 - Forward RICH (dRICH)

Speaker: Marco Contalbrigo (INFN Ferrara)

1:35 PM eRD103 - Barrel DIRC

Speaker: Grzegorz Kalicy (CUA)

1:50 PM Coffee Break

2:00 PM eRD104 & eRD111 - Silicon tracker and services reduction

Speaker: Nicole Apadula

2:15 PM eRD105 - SciGlass e/m calorimetry

Speaker: Tanja Horn (Cath)

2:30 PM eRD108 - Curved and flat MPGD trackers

Speaker: Sourav Tarafdar (Vanderbilt University)

2:45 PM eRD110 - Photosensors

Speaker: Pietro Antonioli (INFN - sezione di Bologna)

3:00 PM eRD112 - AC-LGAD time-of-flight detectors

Speaker: Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)

9:20 AM → 12:20 PM Spin/Cold QCQ

Conveners: Dr Alexey Vladimirov, Jinlong Zhang (Shandong University), Sook Hyun Lee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

9:20 AM STAR Highlights

Speaker: Jae Nam (Temple University)

9:45 AM PHENIX Highlights

Speaker: Dr Zhongling Ji (UCLA)

10:10 AM RHICf Highlights

Speaker: Minho Kim (Korea University/ RIKEN)

10:35 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM Theory

Speaker: Alexei Prokudin (Penn State Berks)

11:15 AM Future sPHENIX

Speaker: Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

11:40 AM Future STAR

Speaker: Oleg Eyser (BNL)

12:20 PM → 3:20 PM HF+Jet

Conveners: Timothy Rinn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Xiaojun Yao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Yi Yang (National Cheng Keung University)

12:35 PM The PHENIX Results

Speaker: Milap Patel

12:55 PM The STAR Results and Perspective

Speaker: Sooraj Radhakrishnan

1:20 PM The LHC Results and Perspective

Speaker: Xiaozhi Bai

1:45 PM Coffee Break

2:00 PM The LIDO/Jetscape Framework

Speaker: Weiyao Ke (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:30 PM The HYBRID Framework

Speaker: Jorge Casaderrey-Solana

3:00 PM The sPHENIX Perspective

Speaker: Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University)

3:20 PM → 6:20 PM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Stacyann Nelson (Howard University)

3:20 PM Improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in a physics department: Recommendations from the EP3 Guide

Speaker: Sarah McKagan (American Association of Physics Teachers)

3:45 PM Speaker Statistics in Heavy-Ion Collisions by Gender

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

4:10 PM Mentoring as two-way learning. Increasing the number of Indigenous/First Nations physics students

Speaker: Astrid Morreale (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)

4:35 PM DOE NP strategies for diversifying nuclear physics

Speaker: Paul Sorensen (DOE Office of Nuclear Physics)

4:50 PM Coffee Break

5:05 PM Practical steps to diversifying nuclear physics (a panel discussion)

The panel, moderated by Mr. Noel Blackburn (BNL), will feature several researchers and educators with a track record of mentoring students from underrepresented minority (URM) communities in physics classrooms, in research, and in pursuing physics careers. The discussion will focus on both increasing the number of URMs in physics majors and on building inclusive environments that level the playing field. The panel will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Speakers: Dina Myers Stroud (Vanderbilt University), Frank Geurts (Rice University), Mark Harvey (Texas Southern University), Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab), Paul Gueye (Michigan State University), Rene Bellwied (University of Houston)

Thursday, August 3

9:20 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary Session I - 9:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. Session I

Convener: Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)

9:20 AM Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Haiyan Gao (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics )

9:45 AM Report from DOE

Speaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Associate Director of the Office of Science for Nuclear Physics )

10:10 AM DOE NP Facility

Speaker: James Sowinski (Department of Energy, Nuclear Physics Facilities, Program Manager)

10:20 AM Beam Energy Scan

Speaker: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

10:45 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee Break

11:05 AM → 12:45 PM Plenary Session I - 10:45 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. Session II

Convener: Carl Gagliardi (Texas A&M University)

11:05 AM Report on RHIC Run22

Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (Brookhaven National Lab, CAD)

11:30 AM Report from STAR

Speaker: Zilong Chang (CEEM, Indiana University)

11:55 AM PHENIX Highlights

Speaker: Cesar da Silva (Los Alamos National Lab)

12:20 PM STAR Highlights

Speaker: Takafumi Niida (Univ. of Tsukuba)

12:45 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch Break

1:50 PM → 3:10 PM Plenary Session I- 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Session III

Convener: Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University)

1:50 PM Report from NSF

Speaker: Allena K. Opper (National Science Foundation, Program Director)

2:15 PM Viewpoint from the DOE Program Manager for Heavy Ion

Speaker: Kenneth Hicks (Department of Energy, Program Manager, Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics)

2:40 PM Merit Awards

Speaker: Haiyan Gao (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics )

2:45 PM Thesis Awards

Speaker: Robert Tribble (BNL, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Director's Office)

2:50 PM Thesis Award Winner Flash Talk I

Speaker: Niveditha Ramasubramanian (IRFU, CEA, Saclay)

3:00 PM Thesis Award Winner Flash Talk II

Speaker: Krista Smith (FSU)

3:10 PM → 3:50 PM Coffee Break

3:50 PM → 6:20 PM Poster Session - 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Conveners: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of Washington), Roli Esha (Stony Brook University), Stacyann Nelson (Howard University)

3:50 PM Poster Session

Will be held at this link: https://indico.bnl.gov/event/15827

Friday, August 4

9:20 AM → 10:35 AM Plenary Session II 9:00 a.m - 10:15 a.m. Session IV

Convener: Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC)

9:20 AM Experimental Investigation into CME

Speaker: Evan Finch (Southern Connecticut State University)

9:45 AM sPHENIX Status

Speaker: Cameron Dean (MIT)

10:10 AM EIC Project Status

Speaker: James Yeck ((Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director, Electron-Ion Collider)

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee Break

11:05 AM → 12:20 PM Plenary Session II 10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Session V

Convener: Justin Frantz (Ohio University)

11:05 AM Progress on EIC Accelerator

Speaker: Michael Blaskiewicz (BNL)

11:30 AM EIC Physics

Speaker: Bernd Surrow (Temple University)

11:55 AM EIC Detectors

Speaker: John Lajoie (Iowa State University)

12:20 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch Break

1:50 PM → 3:20 PM Plenary Session II 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Session VI

Convener: Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

1:50 PM Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Speaker: Noel Blackburn (BNL, Chief Diversity Officer, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)

2:15 PM BNL Facilities and Operations

Speaker: Thomas Daniels (BNL, Associate Laboratory Director, Facilities and Operations )

2:40 PM UEC Business Meeting

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

3:05 PM Poster Award

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

3:10 PM Poster Award Winner - Flash Talk - Derek Anderson

Speaker: Derek Anderson (Texas A&M University)