2020 RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting

22 Oct 2020, 08:30 → 23 Oct 2020, 21:55 US/Eastern

Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Rosi Reed (Lehigh University), Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

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Following the highly successful celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first collisions at RHIC earlier this year on June 12th, we are hosting an abbreviated, online-only Annual Users Meeting on October 22-23, 2020. The workshops will enable more in-depth discussions of the beam energy scan, measurements of hard probes in heavy ion collisions, studies of small systems, strong field effects, and cold QCD. The plenary session will include the latest physics results from STAR and PHENIX, reports about the current operational status, and updates from the proposed detector upgrades and future experiments. We will conclude the plenary session with award ceremonies.

 

Thursday, 22 October

09:00 → 12:15 Beam Energy Scan

Conveners: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis), Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Houston)

09:00 Mapping out the QCD Phase Diagram

Speaker: Agnieszka Sorensen (University of California at Los Angeles)

ASorensen_RHIC_AGS_Users_Meeting_2020.pdf

09:25 Net-Proton Kurtosis

Speaker: Samuel Heppelmann (University of California at Davis)

UsersMeeting_SHeppelmann.pdf

09:50 Interplay of Baryon and Strageness at the Beam Energy Scan

Speaker: Jamie Stafford (University of Houston/LBNL)

Stafford_UsersMtg_2020.pdf

10:15 Break

10:30 Charged, Identified, and Strange Hadron Spectra and Flow

Speaker: Yang Wu (University of California at Riverside)

aum20_fxt_3gev_pcc_001.pdf

10:55 Relativistic Hydrodynamics at Large Baryon Densities

Speaker: Jan Fotakis (University of Frankfurt)

fotakis_hydro.pdf

11:20 Global Lambda Polarization

Speaker: Takafumi Niida (University of Tsukuba)

AUM2020_niida_final.pdf

11:45 Lunch Break

09:00 → 12:15 Heavy Flavor

Conveners: Dr Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dr Zebo Tang (USTC)

09:00 STAR Open HF Overview

Speaker: Matthew Kelsey (LBNL)

Kelsey_STARHFOverview_23Oct2020.pdf

09:25 PHENIX HF Overview

Speaker: Takashi Hachiya (RIKEN)

AUM_hachiya_20201022_v2.pdf

09:50 sPHENIX HF Overview

Speaker: Hideki Okawa (Fudan University)

okawa_sPHENIX_HF_20201022.pdf

10:15 Break

10:30 STAR Quarkonia Overview

Speaker: Qian Yang (Shandong University)

Quarkonium_final.pdf

10:55 EIC HF Overview

Speaker: Ivan Vitev (LANL)

EICHF_RHIC20Y_Vitev.pdf

11:20 LHC HF Overview

Speaker: Preeti Dhankher (LBNL)

RHIC_AGS2020_HF.pdf

11:45 Lunch Break

09:00 → 12:15 Strong Field Effects

Conveners: Jorge Noronha (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

09:00 New Physical Phenomena Associated with Chiral Ferminos/Chirality in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Speaker: Xu-Guang Huang (Fudan University)

X.G.Huang-RHIC-AGS-2020.10.22.pdf

09:25 New Physical Phenomena Associated with Vorticity/Spin in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Speaker: Enrico Speranza (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

speranza_rhic.pdf

09:50 Electromagnetic Field Effects on Large and Small Colliding Systems

Speaker: Lucia Oliva (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Oliva_slides_strong_fields_2.pdf

10:15 Break

10:30 Status of the Chiral Magnetic Effect search at RHIC

Speaker: Dr Niseem Abdelrahman (University of Illinois at Chicago)

RHIC_AGS_CME_2020.pdf

10:55 Recent Results on Hyperon Polarization & Vector Meson Spin Alignment at RHIC

Speaker: Joseph Adams (Ohio State University)

Adams-HyperonPolarizationAndVectorMesonSpin-v3.pdf

11:20 Effect of Strong Fields in UPCs and Peripheral A+A Collisions

Speaker: Daniel Brandenburg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

jdb_AUM2020_StrongFields.pdf

11:45 Lunch Break

12:15 → 15:00 Cold QCD

Conveners: Amilkar Quintero (Temple University), Sanghwa Park (Stony Brook University)

12:15 PHENIX Cold QCD Highlights

Speaker: Milap Patel (Iowa State University)

Annual_User_Meeting_2020.pdf

12:40 STAR Cold QCD Highlights

Speaker: Nick Lukow (Temple University)

ColdQCDHighlights_v3.pdf

13:05 RHICf Cold QCD Highlights

Speaker: Minho Kim (Korea University/ RIKEN)

AUM2020.pdf

13:30 Break

13:45 sPHENIX Cold QCD Future Physics Program

Speaker: Desmond Shangase (University of Michigan)

The future Cold QCD program with the sPHENIX 2.pdf

14:10 STAR Cold QCD Future Physics Program

Speaker: Scott Wissink (Indiana University @ Bloomington )

STAR Future AUM - Wissink.pdf

14:35 EIC Cold QCD Future Physics Program

Speaker: Andreas Metz (Temple University)

EIC_Cold_QCD_Program.pdf

12:15 → 15:00 Jets

Conveners: Megan Connors (Georgia State University RBRC), Saehanseul Oh (LBNL)

12:15 Energy loss beyond multiple soft or single hard approximations

Speaker: Liliana Apolinário (LIP)

ELoss_LApolinario.pdf

12:40 Jet and Jet Substructure Measurements in STAR

Speaker: Isaac Mooney (Wayne State University)

RHICAGS_AUM_JetWorkshop_Mooney_for_STAR.pdf

13:05 Jets and Jet-related correlation measurements in PHENIX

Speaker: Anthony Hodges (Georgia State University)

Hodges_PHENIX_JetsJetCorrelations_AUM2020_v2.pdf

13:30 Break

13:45 Latest Jet Measurements at the LHC

Speaker: Martin Rybar (Columbia University (US))

RHIC_AGS_meeting_2020_Rybar.pdf

14:10 Plans for Jet Measurements at sPHENIX

Speaker: Christopher McGinn (University Colorado Boulder)

rhicAGS2020_sPHENIXJets_CFM_20201022.pdf

14:35 Jet Measurements at the EIC

Speaker: Felix Ringer (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

RHIC_AGS20_FRinger.pdf

12:15 → 15:00 Small Systems

Conveners: Bjoern Schenke (BNL), Mauricio Martinez Guerrero (North Carolina State University)

12:15 Musings on azimuthal anisotropy in small systems

Speaker: Roy Lacey (Stony Brook University, USA, STAR Collaboration )

Lacey_RHIC-AGS-UM_Sept-22-2020s.pptx

12:40 PHENIX results on small systems collectivity at RHIC

Speaker: Ron Belmont (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA, PHENIX Collaboration)

aum20.pdf

13:05 Multi-Parton Interactions from Machine Learnig-based regression

Speaker: Antonio Ortiz Velasquez (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico)

RHICworkshop_22102020.pdf

13:30 Break

13:45 Saturation corrections to dilute-dense particle production

Speaker: Vladimir Skokov (North Carolina State University, USA)

Skokov_RHICAGS_par.pdf

14:10 Signatures of primordial momentum anisotropy in nuclear collisions

Speaker: Giuliano Giacalone (Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), Centre CEA de Saclay,France, USA)

talk.pdf

14:35 What do the measurements at the LHC say about collectivity in small systems

Speaker: Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

KrizkovaGajdosova.pdf

15:00 → 17:00 Poster Session

Conveners: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Lab), Audrey Francisco (Yale University), Matthew Sievert (University of Illinois)

Friday, 23 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session I.A

Convener: Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:00 Welcome Remarks

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (BNL)

RHIC Users 2020.pdf

09:25 EIC

Speaker: Yulia Furletova (Jefferson Lab)

RHIC-UG_EIC-ScienceOct2020.pdf

09:50 sPHENIX

Speaker: Caroline Riedl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

RIEDL-AUM-20201023.pdf

10:15 Break

10:30 → 12:15 Plenary Session 1.B

Convener: Frank Geurts (Rice University)

10:30 Report from C-AD

Speaker: Chuyu Liu (CAD)

AGS_RHIC_2020Oct23.pdf

10:55 Report from STAR

Speaker: Daniel Cebra (University of California, Davis)

RHIC_AGS_AUM2020_Run2020_Report.pdf

11:20 STAR Highlights

Speaker: Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli (Wayne State University)

STAR_highlights_AUM_raghav_23Oct2020.pdf

11:45 Lunch Break

12:15 → 13:45 Plenary Session 1.C

Convener: Peter Petreczky (BNL)

12:15 PHENIX Highlights

Speaker: Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

2020_10_23_PHENIX_Seidl_v2.pdf

12:40 Life with Pandemic

Speaker: Michelle Violanti (University of Tennessee Knoxville)

Physics Talk on Workplace Disruptions.pdf

13:05 Diversity

Speaker: Justin Frantz (Ohio University)

jfrantz_rhicAUM2020_rhicDiversity_confSpeakers_v5presented_updated1.pdf

13:30 Break

13:45 → 15:00 Plenary Session 1.D

Convener: Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)

13:45 Thesis Awards/Merit Awards

Speaker: Berndt Mueller (BNL)

RHICAGSThesis2020Citation.pdf

14:00 Thesis Award- Flash Talk 1

Paolo_Parotto_RHIC_AGS_Thesis_Award_2020.pdf

14:15 Thesis Award- Flash Talk 2

IrinaPetrushina_RHIC_AGS_ThesisAward_2020.pdf

14:30 Poster Award

Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)

14:35 Poster Award - Flash Talk

FlashTalk_AUM2020_YuHu_20201023.pdf

14:40 UEC Business

Speaker: Sevil Salur (Rutgers University)