STAR Collaboration Meeting: eTOF and BES-II workshop (Dec. 2024)

3 Dec 2024, 08:00 → 6 Dec 2024, 18:00 US/Eastern

BNL

The STAR Collaboration Meeting eTOF and BES-II workshop will take place between December 3-6 at BNL. 

• December 3 is focused on eTOF discussions, as a follow-up to the eTOF workshop held at GSI in February.
• December 4-6 is dedicated to the BES-II workshop. 

 

Registration fee: $100 for all in-person participants

Payment will be collected on site. Following options are available:

• Cash
• Check

 

BES_II_workshop_agenda.pdf

Tuesday, 3 December

08:55 → 12:30 eTOF workfest: Closed Sessions on eTOF Data Analysis

Convener: Norbert Herrmann (Heidelberg University / GSI)

08:55 Opening remark for eTOF workshop

Speaker: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

09:00 eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Yannick Soehngen

10:00 eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

11:00 eTOF related calibration

Speaker: Mathias Labonte (UC Davis)

12:00 Software/Claibration

Speaker: Gene Van Bruren

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:30 eTOF workfest: Embedding, centrality, QA

Convener: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

13:30 Simulation/embedding

Speaker: Xianglei Zhu

14:00 Centrality

Speaker: Grigory Nigmatkulov (UIC)

14:30 → 15:30 Coffee Break & seminar on Critical point search by Ashish Pandav (small seminar room)

15:30 → 18:35 eTOF workfest: eTOF physics

Convener: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

15:30 Data/production QA

Speaker: Ashik Ikbal Sheikh (Kent State University)

16:00 eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Yannick Soehngen

16:30 eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

17:00 eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Mathias Labonte (UC Davis)

17:30 eTOF related physics analysis

Speaker: Hongcan Li

Wednesday, 4 December

08:25 → 10:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: LFS

Convener: Yue-Hang Leung

08:25 Opening remark for BES-II workshop

Speaker: Lijuan Ruan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:30 CAD talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xiaodong Jiang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:00 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Fang Yi

09:30 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Aswini Kumar Sahoo

10:00 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chenlu Hu

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: FCV and CF

Convener: Yue-Hang Leung

11:00 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chengdong Han

11:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Ke Mi

12:00 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chuan Fu

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 16:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: CF-FCV-Theory

Convener: Richard Sato

13:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Vinh Luong

14:00 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Mate Csanad

14:30 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

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

15:00 (Remote) SMASH-vHLLE Hybrid Approach: Transport Coefficients and Equation of State

Speaker: Hannah Elfner (GSI, University Frankfurt)

15:45 A new RQMD formulation: Potentials/EoS in the microscopic transport model JAM

Speaker: Nara Yasushi

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:15 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory & Overview

Convener: Richard Sato

17:00 Constraining the EOS from flow and the QCD CP from proton fluctuations

Speaker: Agnieszka Sorensen (UCLA)

17:45 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

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

Thursday, 5 December

09:00 → 10:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory

Convener: Nu Xu (LBNL)

09:00 (Remote) Structure of light hypernuclei and hyperon-nucleon interaction

Speaker: Emiko Hiyama

09:45 (Remote) Spin effects in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Qun Wang (University of science and technology of China)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Theory

Convener: Nu Xu (LBNL)

11:00 The QCD critical point and fluctuations

Speaker: Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

11:45 The QCD phase diagram in view of BES II

Speaker: Volker Koch (MS70A-3307)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 16:00 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: Correlations and Fluctuations

Convener: Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

13:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: ASHISH PANDAV (LBNL)

14:00 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Bappaditya Mondal

14:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Yige Huang

15:00 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Hanwen Feng

15:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Rutik Manikandhan (student@uh.edu;faculty@uh.edu)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 BES-II workshop: Open sessions with theorists: LFS-FCV

Convener: Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

16:30 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Matt Harasty

17:00 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chenliang Jin

17:30 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xingrui Guo

18:00 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Zhiwan Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Friday, 6 December

09:00 → 10:30 STAR Closed session: FCV-CF

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

09:00 FCV talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Dr Subhash Singha (Institute of Modern Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:30 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xin Zhang

10:00 CF talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Zachary Sweger (University of California, Davis)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 STAR Closed session: LFS

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

11:00 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Chen Liubing

11:30 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Yingjie Zhou

12:00 LFS talk (see drupal for full details)

Speaker: Xianwen Bao

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:30 STAR Closed session: Remaining topics & Closeout

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