The Physics of p+A Collisions at RHIC

7 Jan 2013, 08:30 → 9 Jan 2013, 18:00 US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (BNL Physics Building)

A joint BNL-LANL-RBRC workshop to advocate and to prepare for the first polarized p+A run at RHIC.

Monday 7 January

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:05 Welcome. Nicholas Samios (RIKEN BNL Research Center)

09:05 → 09:25 p+A collision at RHIC and Status of RHIC operation. Tom Ludlam (BNL)

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09:25 → 09:55 A summary of earlier p+A experiments results. Mike Leitch (LANL)

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09:55 → 10:30 Unpolarized p+A - theory overview. Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

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10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:20 pA@LHC program and ATLAS plan of p+Pb. Brian Cole (Columbia)

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11:20 → 11:55 Physics opportunities with a polarized pA@RHIC. Mark Strikman (Penn. State)

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11:55 → 12:30 Single-spin asymmetry in polarized p+A collisions. Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State)

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:30 pA@LHC CMS p+Pb results. Wei Li (Rice)

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14:30 → 15:00 Short range correlations and AGS A(p, 2p) experiment. John Watson (Kent State)

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15:00 → 15:35 Heavy quarkonium production in a polarized pA@RHIC. Feng Yuan (LBNL)

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15:35 → 15:55 Coffee Break

15:55 → 16:25 FNAL E906 p+A Spin Independent Drell-Yan. Paul Reimer (ANL)

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16:25 → 16:55 Hadronization and Color Transparency studies at JLab. Kawtar Hafidi (ANL)

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16:55 → 17:25 PHENIX d-Au result of hadron production. Mickey Chu (BNL)

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Tuesday 8 January

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Feasibilities and Challenges of pA collisions. Steve Tepikian (BNL)

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09:30 → 09:50 Engineering solutions of DX magnets for p+A collision at 200 GeV/nucleon. Francis Karl (BNL)

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09:50 → 10:10 RF manipulation for p+A collision and stochastic cooling. M. Blaskiewicz (BNL)

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10:10 → 10:30 Potential impact on polarized beam polarization in p+A collision: V. Ranjbar (BNL)

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10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:10 Path forward to establish p+A collision for physics and projected luminosity. W. Fischer (BNL)

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11:10 → 11:30 Discussions. Expected luminosity. Practical issues on machine and polarization in p+A.

11:30 → 12:00 Color Transparency. Steve Heppelmann (Penn. State)

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12:00 → 12:30 AGS polarized p+A, and inclusive Lambda polarization. Yousef Makdisi (BNL)

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:35 Polarized p+A, single-spin asymmetries. Zhongbo Kang (LANL)

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14:35 → 15:05 Prompt Photon A_N with the PHENIX MPC-EX Detector, John Lajoie (Iowa State)

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15:05 → 15:35 Recent STAR Forward Spin Physics Results. Len Eun (LBNL)

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15:35 → 15:55 Coffee Break

15:55 → 16:25 PHENIX d-Au result of J/psi production. Cesar da Silva (LANL)

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16:25 → 16:55 STAR Lambda results. Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)

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16:55 → 17:25 The STAR FGT upgrade program. Xuan Li (Temple)

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18:30 → 20:00 Workshop Dinner

Wednesday 9 January

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee

09:00 → 09:30 ALICE p+Pb results. Tim Schuster (Yale)

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09:30 → 10:00 LHCf and p+A forward at RHIC. Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya University)

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10:00 → 10:30 PHENIX p+A, unpolarized observables, Rich Seto (UC Riverside)

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10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:20 PHENIX future upgrade plan. Joseph Seele (RBRC)

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11:20 → 11:50 STAR Decadal Plan. James Dunlop (BNL)

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11:50 → 12:00 Physics opportunities of di-muon analysis in p+A with PHENIX. Kwangbok Lee (LANL)

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12:00 → 12:30 Workshop Summary. Jianwei Qiu (BNL)

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12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:05 Short presentations (2:00pm-3:30pm) . Chair: Xiaodong Jiang

14:05 → 14:25 Measuring Forward Protons at RHIC. Włodek Guryn (BNL)

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14:25 → 14:45 Can we better measure the impact parameters in p+A collisions ? Cesar da Silva (LANL)

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14:45 → 15:10 What's "new" in polarized p+A. Ming Liu (LANL)

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15:10 → 15:30 Xiaodong Jiang, discussions. The Pathforward for polarized p+A at RHIC.

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15:30 → 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 → 15:55 Discussions. Chair: Xiaodong Jiang

15:55 → 16:15 Mei Bai. Discussions. Action Items on CAD side.

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16:15 → 16:35 Action Items on STAR side.

16:35 → 16:55 Action Items on PHENIX side.

16:55 → 17:25 Inputs to NP Long Range Plan

17:25 → 17:35 When should we meet again to discuss the progress.