The Physics of p+A Collisions at RHIC

US/Eastern
Large Seminar Room (BNL Physics Building)

Large Seminar Room

BNL Physics Building

Description
A joint BNL-LANL-RBRC workshop to advocate and to prepare for the first polarized p+A run at RHIC.
Participants
  • Abhay Deshpande
  • Alexander Bazilevsky
  • Aneta Iordanova
  • Anthony Baltz
  • Arbin Timilsina
  • Bernd Surrow
  • Bill Zajc
  • Brian Cole
  • Cesar da Silva
  • Chin-Hao Chen
  • Christoph Montag
  • David Lissauer
  • Dejan Trbojevic
  • Dennis Perepelitsa
  • Ernst Sichtermann
  • Feng Yuan
  • Flemming Videbaek
  • Francis Karl
  • Gabor David
  • Haixin Huang
  • Helen Caines
  • Hentschinski Martin
  • Hyeon Joong Kim
  • J. Matthew Durham
  • James Dunlop
  • James Ross
  • Jianwei Qiu
  • Jin Huang
  • John Koster
  • John Lajoie
  • John Watson
  • Joseph Seele
  • Kawtar Hafidi
  • Kenneth Barish
  • Kieran Boyle
  • Klaus Dehmelt
  • Kwangbok Lee
  • Len Eun
  • Lijuan Ruan
  • Marco Stratmann
  • Mark Strikman
  • Matt Lamont
  • Mei Bai
  • Michael Blaskiewicz
  • Michael Leitch
  • Michael Tannenbaum
  • Michiko Minty
  • Mickey Chiu
  • Mike Brennan
  • Ming Liu
  • Nermeen Khalil
  • Nu Xu
  • Paul E Reimer
  • Paul Sorensen
  • Peter Steinberg
  • Peter Thieberger
  • Philip Pile
  • Prashanth Shanmuganathan
  • Raju Venugopalan
  • Richard Hollis
  • Richard Seto
  • Robert Pak
  • Rongrong Ma
  • Saehanseul Oh
  • Sanghoon Lim
  • Sarah Campbell
  • Shengli Huang
  • Steven Heppelmann
  • Steven Tepikian
  • Takao Sakaguchi
  • Tim Schuster
  • Tom Ludlam
  • Vahid Ranjbar
  • Wei Li
  • William Christie
  • Wlodek Guryn
  • Wolfram Fischer
  • Xiaodong Jiang
  • Xiaorong Wang
  • Xuan Li
  • Yan-Qing Ma
  • Yann Dutheil
  • Yoshitaka Itow
  • Yousef Makdisi
  • Yuji Goto
  • Yuri Kovchegov
  • Zhangbu Xu
  • Zhongbo Kang
Contact
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Large Seminar Room (Bldg 510)

      Large Seminar Room

      Bldg 510

    • 09:00 09:05
      Welcome. Nicholas Samios (RIKEN BNL Research Center) 5m
    • 09:05 09:25
      p+A collision at RHIC and Status of RHIC operation. Tom Ludlam (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 09:25 09:55
      A summary of earlier p+A experiments results. Mike Leitch (LANL) 30m
      Slides
    • 09:55 10:30
      Unpolarized p+A - theory overview. Raju Venugopalan (BNL) 35m
      Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 10:50 11:20
      pA@LHC program and ATLAS plan of p+Pb. Brian Cole (Columbia) 30m
      Slides
    • 11:20 11:55
      Physics opportunities with a polarized pA@RHIC. Mark Strikman (Penn. State) 35m
      Slides
    • 11:55 12:30
      Single-spin asymmetry in polarized p+A collisions. Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State) 35m
      Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:30
      pA@LHC CMS p+Pb results. Wei Li (Rice) 30m
      Slides
    • 14:30 15:00
      Short range correlations and AGS A(p, 2p) experiment. John Watson (Kent State) 30m
      Slides
    • 15:00 15:35
      Heavy quarkonium production in a polarized pA@RHIC. Feng Yuan (LBNL) 35m
      Slides
    • 15:35 15:55
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 15:55 16:25
      FNAL E906 p+A Spin Independent Drell-Yan. Paul Reimer (ANL) 30m
      Slides
    • 16:25 16:55
      Hadronization and Color Transparency studies at JLab. Kawtar Hafidi (ANL) 30m
      Slides
    • 16:55 17:25
      PHENIX d-Au result of hadron production. Mickey Chu (BNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 08:30 09:00
      Registration 30m Large Seminar Room (Bldg 510)

      Large Seminar Room

      Bldg 510

    • 09:00 09:30
      Feasibilities and Challenges of pA collisions. Steve Tepikian (BNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 09:30 09:50
      Engineering solutions of DX magnets for p+A collision at 200 GeV/nucleon. Francis Karl (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 09:50 10:10
      RF manipulation for p+A collision and stochastic cooling. M. Blaskiewicz (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 10:10 10:30
      Potential impact on polarized beam polarization in p+A collision: V. Ranjbar (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 10:50 11:10
      Path forward to establish p+A collision for physics and projected luminosity. W. Fischer (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 11:10 11:30
      Discussions. Expected luminosity. Practical issues on machine and polarization in p+A. 20m
    • 11:30 12:00
      Color Transparency. Steve Heppelmann (Penn. State) 30m
      Slides
    • 12:00 12:30
      AGS polarized p+A, and inclusive Lambda polarization. Yousef Makdisi (BNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:35
      Polarized p+A, single-spin asymmetries. Zhongbo Kang (LANL) 35m
      Slides
    • 14:35 15:05
      Prompt Photon A_N with the PHENIX MPC-EX Detector, John Lajoie (Iowa State) 30m
      Slides
    • 15:05 15:35
      Recent STAR Forward Spin Physics Results. Len Eun (LBNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 15:35 15:55
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 15:55 16:25
      PHENIX d-Au result of J/psi production. Cesar da Silva (LANL) 30m
      Slides
    • 16:25 16:55
      STAR Lambda results. Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 16:55 17:25
      The STAR FGT upgrade program. Xuan Li (Temple) 30m
      Slides
    • 18:30 20:00
      Workshop Dinner 1h 30m South Room (Brookhaven Center)

      South Room

      Brookhaven Center

    • 08:30 09:00
      Coffee 30m Large Seminar Room (Bldg 510)

      Large Seminar Room

      Bldg 510

    • 09:00 09:30
      ALICE p+Pb results. Tim Schuster (Yale) 30m
      Slides
    • 09:30 10:00
      LHCf and p+A forward at RHIC. Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya University) 30m
      Slides
    • 10:00 10:30
      PHENIX p+A, unpolarized observables, Rich Seto (UC Riverside) 30m
      Slides
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 10:50 11:20
      PHENIX future upgrade plan. Joseph Seele (RBRC) 30m
      Slides
    • 11:20 11:50
      STAR Decadal Plan. James Dunlop (BNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 11:50 12:00
      Physics opportunities of di-muon analysis in p+A with PHENIX. Kwangbok Lee (LANL) 10m
      Slides
    • 12:00 12:30
      Workshop Summary. Jianwei Qiu (BNL) 30m
      Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch Break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:05
      Short presentations (2:00pm-3:30pm) . Chair: Xiaodong Jiang 5m
    • 14:05 14:25
      Measuring Forward Protons at RHIC. Włodek Guryn (BNL) 20m
      Slides
    • 14:25 14:45
      Can we better measure the impact parameters in p+A collisions ? Cesar da Silva (LANL) 20m
      Slides
    • 14:45 15:10
      What's "new" in polarized p+A. Ming Liu (LANL) 25m
      Slides
    • 15:10 15:30
      Xiaodong Jiang, discussions. The Pathforward for polarized p+A at RHIC. 20m
      Slides
    • 15:30 15:50
      Coffee Break 20m
    • 15:50 15:55
      Discussions. Chair: Xiaodong Jiang 5m Form a joint pA workforce from the RHIC user community. (A plan of actions for RHIC machine, STAR and PHENIX. Inputs to Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan.)

      Form a joint pA workforce from the RHIC user community.

      A plan of actions for RHIC machine, STAR and PHENIX. Inputs to Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan.

    • 15:55 16:15
      Mei Bai. Discussions. Action Items on CAD side. 20m
      Slides
    • 16:15 16:35
      Action Items on STAR side. 20m
    • 16:35 16:55
      Action Items on PHENIX side. 20m
    • 16:55 17:25
      Inputs to NP Long Range Plan 30m Time line. (A summary document for pA@RHIC physics program)

      Time line.

      A summary document for pA@RHIC physics program

    • 17:25 17:35
      When should we meet again to discuss the progress. 10m In late April ?

      In late April ?