List for the 2014 Hot QCD White Paper Writing Group

["W.A. Zajc" <zajc AT nevis.columbia.edu>]

Dear Colleagues:

—> If you have not registered with GitHub and sent your username to Gunther Roland, please do so immediately.

In this message I would like to establish a plan for proceeding, and also obtain your feedback on a proposed outline. Based on the previous phone conference, my understanding is that we are to produce a document on the order of 20 pages (I believe it will be somewhat longer) on Hot QCD. Similar efforts are underway for Cold QCD and for RHIC Spin, all to be incorporated by some process above my pay grade along with our joint recommendation for EIC.

I would therefore like your immediate feedback (reply to the list, or to me privately if you really think that is necessary) on the below outline. Note that in Section II.B  I have deliberately not broken the topics into separate theory and experimental discussions; I believe it will be much easier for non-experts to follow the discussion of those discussions are integrated for each observable.

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  I. Executive Summary

 II. Progress Since Previous Long-Range Plan, Current Status

     A. Facilities Status (RHIC II + LHC)

     B. Experimental and Theoretical Status

          1.  Hydrodynamic Flow

          2.  Jets

          3.  Saturation 

          4.  Quarkonia

          5.  Dileptons

          6.  Energy Scan

          7.  Exotica (CME, CVE)

III. Future Prospects

     A. Facilities (RHIC and LHC timelines, experimental upgrades)

     B. QCD Critical Point

     C. Hard probes

     D. Theory Initiatives (towards quantitative understanding)

 IV. Summary

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The plan for proceeding would then be:

1) Comments on outline due to Bill by 0800 Monday, October 27.

—> Please indicate which section(s) you would be willing to assume as your primary responsibility.

2) Bill will upload new LaTeX skeleton based on #1 by C.O.B. on Tuesday, October 28 AND assign working groups.

3) First drafts of the relevant sections due on December 1.

4) First round of edits, coordination, etc. to be completed by December 15.

5) Adjust as necessary from there…

This is an ambitious but achievable schedule. Please plan accordingly. 

For your reference, I include below my signature the members of the writing group. Please check this to make sure I have not made any errors or omissions.

With thanks in advance,

Bill

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WRITING GROUP MEMBERS:

Yasayuki Akiba      akiba AT bnl.gov                              (PHENIX) 

Aaron Angerami     angerami AT cern.ch                       (ATLAS)

Helen Caines         helen.caines AT yale.edu                (STAR/ALICE) 

Tony Frawley          frawley AT fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu  (PHENIX) 

Barbara Jacak       Barbara.Jacak AT stonybrook.edu   (PHENIX) 

Jiangyong Jia         jjia AT bnl.gov                                  (ATLAS) 

Tuomas Lappi        tuomas.v.v.lappi AT jyu.fi                 (theory)

Wei Li                    davidlw AT rice.edu                          (CMS)

Mateusz Ploskon   mploskon AT lbl.gov                        (ALICE)

Joern Putschke      joern.putschke AT wayne.edu         (ALICE/STAR)

Krishna Rajagopal krishna AT MIT.EDU                        (theory) 

Ralf Rapp               rapp AT comp.tamu.edu                 (theory)

Gunther M Roland rolandg AT MIT.EDU                       (CMS)

Paul Sorensen       psoren AT bnl.gov                           (STAR)

Urs Wiedemann     Urs.Wiedemann AT cern.ch            (theory) 

Nu Xu                     nxu AT lbl.gov                                 (STAR)

EX OFFICIO MEMBER/OBSERVERS:

Brian Cole             cole AT nevis.columbia.edu       for ATLAS US

Ulrich Heinz           heinz AT mps.ohio-state.edu     for theory (as Town Meeting co-convener)

David Morrison      dave AT bnl.gov                         for PHENIX

Jamie Nagle          jamie.nagle AT colorado.edu     for PHENIX

Paul Sorensen       psoren AT bnl.gov                     for experiment (as Town Meeting co-convener)

Soren Sorensen    sorensen AT utk.edu                  for ALICE US 

Bolek Wyslouch     wyslouch AT mit.edu                 for CMS US

Zhangbu Xu           xzb AT bnl.gov                          for STAR