2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

Name: 2023 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting
Start: 2023-08-01T08:25:00-04:00
End: 2023-08-04T18:00:00-04:00
Location: No location set

1 Aug 2023, 08:25 → 4 Aug 2023, 18:00 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 August 1–4, 2023. The meeting will highlight the latest results from the PHENIX, sPHENIX and STAR experiments and provide an outlook with the future programs at RHIC and the EIC.

Workshops that will be held hybrid on Tuesday, August 1st and Wednesday, August 2nd will enable more in-depth discussions of the beam energy scan, machine learning, measurements of hard probes in heavy ion collisions, diversity, physics opportunities at the EIC and recent detector developments at RHIC and EIC. There will be an in-person poster session on Thursday, August 3rd.

Plenary sessions will be held in person on Thursday, August 3rd and Friday, August 4th. Reports on operation status from the sPHENIX and STAR experiments and highlights from PHENIX, sPHENIX and STAR experiments, EIC detectors, reports from representatives from the funding agencies, and award ceremonies will be held during the plenary sessions.

Event ID: E000005209

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.

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Tuesday, 1 August
- AI/ML in Nuclear Physics - Building 490, Large Conference Room
  
  Conveners: Timothy Rinn (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Zhongling Ji (UCLA)
  - 1
    
    ML Technique Overview in Nuclear or High Energy Physics (local)
    
    Speaker: Dr Yihui (Ray) Ren
    
    YRen_2023_RHIC_AIML_0801_v1.pdf
  - 2
    
    Construction and Fitting of a Deep Generative Hadronization Model (remote)
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrzej Konrad Siodmok (CERN)
    
    Siodmok_2023_RHIC_AGS_Annual_Users_Meeting_final.pdf
  - 3
    
    A Closed-Form, Differentiable Metric on Event (remote)
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrew Larkoski (UCLA)
    
    RHIC:AGS_2023.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 4
    
    Interpretable Machine Learning Methods for Jet Background Subtraction in Heavy Ion Collisions
    
    Speaker: Mr Tanner Mengel (University of Tennessee)
    
    RHIC_AGS_2023_TMENGEL.pdf
    
    RHIC User Meeting AI-ML Workshop 2023.pptx
  - 5
    
    Tracking with a Graph Neural Network (remote)
    
    Speaker: Dr Charline Rougier (ATLAS)
    
    RHICAGS_GNNtracking.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    No Host Lunch Break
  - 6
    
    ML- enabled End-to-End Tracking Reconstruction and Trigger Detection
    
    Speaker: Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc (Stony Brook University )
    
    ML-enabled End-to-End Tracking Reconstruction and Trigger Detection for sPHENIX.pdf
    
    ML-enabled End-to-End Tracking Reconstruction and Trigger Detection for sPHENIX.pptx
  - 7
    
    AI Based Reconstruction for Highly Granular Hadronic Calorimeter for EIC (remote)
    
    Speaker: Dr Bishnu Karki (University of California, Riverside)
    
    Karki_RHIC_AGS.pdf
  - 14:00
    
    Coffee Break
  - 8
    
    FPGA Driven Machine Learning for Heavy Flavour Event Identification (remote)
    
    Speaker: Dr Jakub Kvapil (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    
    BNL_RHICAGS_FastML_JK.pdf
- EIC Physics - Building 510, Physics Large Seminar Room
  
  Conveners: Ciprian Gal (Jefferson Lab), Friederike Bock (ORNL), Tyler Kutz (MIT)
  - 9
    
    Overview of Spin Physics
    
    Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)
    
    RHIC-AGS.pdf
  - 10
    
    Neutron Spin with Double-Spectator Tagging
    
    Speaker: Jackson Pybus (MIT)
    
    JacksonPybus_RHIC_2022.pdf
  - 11
    
    Gluon Polarization from Global Analyses
    
    Speaker: Christopher Cocuzza (Temple University)
    
    Cocuzza_RHIC-AGS2023.pdf
  - 10:10
    
    Coffee Break
  - 12
    
    Diffractive Physics: LHC and RHIC Synergies
    
    Speaker: Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University)
    
    RHIC_Users_2023.pdf
    
    RHIC_Users_2023.pptx
  - 13
    
    Diffractive Physics from LHC to EIC
    
    Speaker: Minjung Kim (Other@lbl.gov;Guest@lbl.gov)
    
    diffractiveP_mjkim_RHICAGS2023.pdf
  - 14
    
    Jets in eP and eA
    
    Speaker: Kevin Adkins (Morehead State University)
    
    Adkins_JetsEpic_RAUM_PDF.pdf
  - 15
    
    Extracting Heavy Flavor Particles with ePIC
    
    Speaker: Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    
    RHIC_AUM_2023_XuanLi_v1.pdf
  - 16
    
    End of Workshop
- Diversity & Inclusion, Building 490, Large Conference Room
  
  Conveners: Fernando Flor (Yale University), Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Vanderbilt University)
  - 17
    
    Introduction Talks from Invited Speakers
    
    Speakers: Charles Barber (National Science Foundation), Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Iris Ponce (Yale University ), Kitt Carpenter (Vanderbilt University ), Shua Sanchez (MIT), Xandria Quichocho (Texas State), Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)
    
    AGS_RHIC-UsersMeeting_Ponce2023.pdf
    
    Carpenter-Policy-Lab-2023-08-01.pdf
    
    DEI Panel Discussion.pdf
    
    DEItalk_BNL_Sanchez.pdf
    
    NattrassAPSDNPDEI.pdf
    
    Sweger_DEI_Workshop.pdf
    
    X.Quichocho RHICAGS Workshop.pdf
  - 16:10
    
    Coffee Break
  - 18
    
    Round-Table Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 2 August
- Beam Energy Scan - Building 488, Berkner Hall Room B
  
  Conveners: Ding Chen (UC, Riverside), Dr Maria Stefaniak (Ohio State University), Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)
  - 19
    
    Opening Remarks
  - 20
    
    BES Overview
    
    Speaker: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)
    
    BESII_Overview_Cebra_AUM2023_v1.pdf
  - 21
    
    Fentoscopy at BES
    
    Speaker: Yevheniia Khyzhniak
    
    rhicAGSmeetingKhyzhniak-2.pdf
  - 10:15
    
    Coffee Break
  - 22
    
    Flow at BES
    
    Speaker: Cameron Racz (University of California @ Riverside)
    
    rhicagsum_Racz_version3.pdf
  - 23
    
    BES CME
    
    Speaker: Zhiwan Xu
    
    AGS_BES_CME_ZhiwanXu.pdf
  - 24
    
    Fluctuations at BES
    
    Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)
    
    Sweger_Fluctuations_Final.pdf
  - 25
    
    BES Dileptons
    
    Speaker: Zaochen Ye (Rice university)
    
    Thermal_Dileptons_RHIC_BES_ZaochenYe_AUM2023_v1.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    No Host Lunch Break
  - 26
    
    Femtoscopy, EoS & Other Theory
    
    Speaker: Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)
    
    rhicAGS_pratt.pdf
  - 27
    
    Hydro Fluctuations
    
    Speaker: Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    RHICAGS_Pradeep.pdf
  - 28
    
    Longitudinal Physics at BES
    
    Speaker: Lipei Du (Ohio State University)
    
    RHIC:AGS 2023 - L Du.key
    
    RHIC:AGS 2023 - L Du.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    Coffee Break
  - 29
    
    Experimental constraints on the initial stages of A+A collisions at lower energy
    
    Speaker: Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Research Associate)
    
    RHIC_AGS_2023.pdf
  - 30
    
    Tracking the Baryon Number with Heavy-ion Collisions
    
    Speaker: Chun Yuen Tsang
    
    2023 Annual RHIC and AGS Users' Meeting_.pdf
  - 31
    
    Open Discussion
    
    open_discussions_bes_workshop.pdf
- HF/Jets - Building 510, Physics Large Conference Room
  
  Conveners: Isaac Mooney, Ismail Soudi (Wayne State University), Virginia Bailey (Georgia State University)
  - 32
    
    Recent Theoretical Developments on Jets
    
    Speaker: João Barata (BNL/IGFAE)
    
    Barata_RHIC_AGS.pdf
  - 33
    
    Recent Jet Results from STAR
    
    Speaker: Diptanil Roy (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
    
    RHIC_AGS_2023_Jets_Diptanil_Final.pdf
  - 10:05
    
    Coffee Break
  - 34
    
    Jet Quenching
    
    Speaker: Shuzhe Shi (McGill University)
    
    AGSRHIC_2023_ShuzheShi.pdf
  - 35
    
    Progress Toward Jet Physics Measurements in sPHENIX
    
    Speaker: Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois)
    
    hodges_AUM_sPHENIXJets_v2.pdf
  - 36
    
    LHC Jet Perspectives
    
    Speaker: Wenqing Fan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    
    AUM2023_wenqing_080223.pdf
  - 11:45
    
    No Host Lunch Break
  - 37
    
    Recent Heavy Flavor Results from STAR
    
    Speaker: Veronika Prozorova
    
    HFfromSTAR2023_v7_.pdf
  - 38
    
    Recent Jet and Heavy Flavor Results from PHENIX
    
    Speaker: Daniel Richford (Baruch)
    
    RhicAgsUsers_2023_v3_compr.pdf
  - 39
    
    Heavy Flavor Energy Loss with JETSCAPE
    
    Speaker: Gojko Vujanovic (Wayne State University)
    
    RHIC_AGS_v2.pdf
  - 15:05
    
    Coffee break
  - 40
    
    LHC Quarkonia Perspectives
    
    Speaker: JaeBeom Park
    
    2023_RHIC:AGS_USER_quarkonia_v1.pdf
  - 41
    
    Progress Toward Heavy Flavor Measurements in sPHENIX
    
    Speaker: Antonio Carlos Oliveira da Silva (Iowa State University)
    
    sPHENIX_HF_AUM.pdf
  - 42
    
    End of Workshop
- New Detectors and Technologies - Building 490, Large Conference Room: Detector Overviews
  
  Conveners: Cameron Dean (MIT), Cheuk-Ping Wong (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory)
  - 43
    
    sPHENIX Overview
    
    Speaker: Ejiro Umaka (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    sPHENIX-Overview_EjiroUmakaAUM2023.pdf
  - 44
    
    STAR Forward Upgrade
    
    Speaker: Xilin Liang (University of California, Riverside)
    
    Liang_RHICAGS_23_V3.pdf
  - 45
    
    2nd EIC Detector
    
    Speaker: Sangbaek Lee (Argonne National Laboratory)
    
    EIC_2nd_det_tech_rhic_ags_ug_2023.pdf
  - 10:10
    
    Coffee Break
  - 46
    
    ePIC Overview
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
    
    ePIC-status_RHIC-AGS_annual_user_meeting_2023_DallaTorre.pdf
- Session: PID and Far Forward & Backward
  - 47
    
    ePIC ToF detectors
    
    Speaker: Satoshi Yano (Hiroshima University )
  - 48
    
    ePIC Cherenkov Detectors
    
    Speaker: Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste)
    
    chchatte_RHIC_AGS_02082023.pdf
  - 49
    
    ePIC Far Forward and Far Backward Detectors
    
    Speaker: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    rhic_ags_far_forward_Jentsch_8_2_2023_v2.pdf
  - 12:10
    
    No Host Lunch Break
- Session: Calorimetry
  - 50
    
    sPHENIX Calorimetry
    
    Speaker: Hanpu Jiang (Columbia University)
    
    sPHENIX_Calorimetry_RHIC_User_Workshop.pdf
  - 51
    
    ePIC Hadronic Calorimetry
    
    Speaker: Nicolas Schmidt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))
    
    RHIC_AGS_ePIC_HCAL.pdf
  - 52
    
    ePIC Electromagnetic Calorimetry
    
    Speaker: Zhongling Ji (UCLA)
    
    ePIC_ECal_Zhongling_Ji.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    Coffee Break
- Vertexing and Tracking
  - 53
    
    STAR Foward Tracker
    
    Speaker: Zhen Wang (Shandong University)
    
    RHIC_AGS_Usermeeting_FWD_Tracker_v2.pdf
  - 54
    
    sPHENIX Tracking
    
    Speaker: Joseph Bertaux (staff@purdue.edu;student@purdue.edu;member@purdue.edu;employee@purdue.edu)
    
    sPHENIX_Tracking.pdf
  - 55
    
    ePIC Tracking
    
    Speaker: Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    
    ePIC_tracking_RHIC_AGS2023-4.pdf
- Session: DAQ and Polarimetry
  - 56
    
    ePIC Readout Electronics
    
    Speaker: Fernando Barbosa (JLab)
    
    RHIC & AGS Annual User's Meeting 2023.pptx
  - 57
    
    EIC Polarimetry
    
    Speaker: Zhengqiao Zhang
    
    RHIC:AGS_eicPolarimetry.pdf
Thursday, 3 August
- Plenary Session I.A - Marzia Rosati, UEC Chair-Elect, Iowa State University - Berkner Hall Auditorium
  - 08:45
    
    Continental Breakfast
  - 58
    
    Welcome Remarks
    
    Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)
  - 59
    
    Nuclear Physics at BNL - via Zoom
    
    Speaker: Haiyan Gao (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear & Particle Physics)
    
    BNL-August2023-UsersMeeting-HGao.pdf
  - 60
    
    C.A.D. Run 23 Report
    
    Speaker: Travis Shrey (Brookhaven National Laboratory, CAD Run 23 Coordinator)
    
    RHIC_AGS_Users.pdf
  - 61
    
    sPHENIX Run 23 Report
    
    Speaker: Stefan Bathe (Baruch College, CUNY, & RBRC)
    
    sPHENIXUsersMeeting2023StefanBathe.v2.pdf
  - 62
    
    STAR Run 23 Report
    
    Speaker: Kong Tu (Brookhaven National Laboratory )
    
    Kong_Tu_Run-23-STAR-v1.pdf
  - 10:50
    
    Coffee Break & Poster Session
- Plenary Session I.B - Xuan Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  - 63
    
    Report from DOE
    
    Speaker: Timothy Hallman (Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics)
    
    DOE_NP_RHIC_User_Meeting_06092022.pdf
  - 64
    
    Beam Energy Scan Theory
    
    Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    02_stephanov-rhic-ags-2023-slides.pdf
  - 65
    
    Annual Users' Meeting Group Picture
  - 12:30
    
    No Host Lunch Break
- Plenary Session I.C - Megan Connors, Georgia State University
  - 66
    
    QGP Theory Talk
    
    Speaker: Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    01_Yacine_Mehtar_RAUM-082023.pdf
  - 67
    
    Report on the DOE Program for Heavy Ions - via Zoom
    
    Speaker: Kenneth Hicks (Department of Energy, Program Manager of Heavy Ion Nuclear Physics)
    
    2023-08-BNL-Users-Hicks-final (002).pdf
  - 14:50
    
    Coffee Break & Poster Session
- Plenary Session I.D - Zhenyu Ye, UEC Chair, University of Illinois at Chicago
  - 68
    
    PHENIX Highlights
    
    Speaker: Rachid Nouicer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    rachid_nouicer_rhicags_2023.pdf
  - 69
    
    sPHENIX Highlights
    
    Speaker: Anne Sickles (University of Illinois)
    
    sickles_080323.pdf
  - 70
    
    STAR Highlights
    
    Speaker: Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    RMa_AUM_2023.pdf
  - 71
    
    Merit Awards & Thesis Awards
    
    Speaker: JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lab Director)
  - 72
    
    Thesis Award Flash Talk I
    
    Speaker: Anthony Hodges (University of Illinois)
    
    04_thesisAwardAUM2023Hodges.pdf
  - 73
    
    Thesis Award Flash Talk II - via Zoom
    
    Speaker: Dingwei Zhang
    
    05_flash_talk_2_AUM2023_Dingwei.pdf
  - 18:00
    
    Poster Session & Cocktail Hour compliments of Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA)
Friday, 4 August
- Plenary Session II.A - Rosi Reed, Lehigh University - Berkner Hall Auditorium
  - 08:45
    
    Continental Breakfast
  - 74
    
    Report from NSF - via Zoom - Talk Cancelled
    
    Speaker: Allena Opper (National Science Foundation, Program Director)
  - 75
    
    EIC Theory Talk
    
    Speaker: Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )
    
    EICPhysics_Schenke.pdf
  - 76
    
    EIC Accelerator Development
    
    Speaker: Ferdinand Willeke (Brookhaven National Laboratory )
    
    03_RHIC-user-meeting-aug-2023.ppsx
  - 77
    
    EIC Project Status - via Zoom
    
    Speaker: James Yeck (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Associate Laboratory Director for EIC)
    
    04_EIC Project Status_j_yeck.ppsx
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee Break
- Plenary Session II.B - Marzia Rosati, UEC Chair- Elect. Iowa State University
  - 78
    
    ePIC talk
    
    Speaker: Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University)
    
    jdb_raum_2023_ePIC_detector.pdf
  - 79
    
    Detector 2 talk
    
    Speaker: Wenliang Li (Jefferson Lab)
    
    2023_Aug_4_IP8_Forward_Instrumentation.pdf
  - 80
    
    Discovery Park & Facilities
    
    Speaker: Steven Cannella (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Manger Campus Planning & Development Office)
    
    03_Campus DP Update 08042023.ppsx
  - 81
    
    Poster Awards - & Flash Talk (TBD)
    
    Speakers: Vladislav Zakharov (Stony Brook University & BNL), Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    05_Vladislav Zakharov - flash talk.ppsx
  - 82
    
    Business Meeting, UEC Elections
    
    Speaker: Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago)
    
    04_yezhenyu_RHICAGSAUM_20230804_v1.pdf
  - 13:00
    
    End of meeting luncheon compliments of Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA)