List for the 2014 Hot QCD White Paper Writing Group

["Ralf F. Rapp" <rapp AT comp.tamu.edu>]

Dear Bill,
I could imagine that open heavy-flavor transport (not high-pt) might merit
explicit mention in the outline of Sec. II, e.g. combined with quarkonia into 
a section 4 with title "Quarkonia and Open Heavy Flavor", or even simply 
"Heavy Flavor".
Chers,
Ralf

----- Original Message -----
From: "W.A. Zajc" <zajc AT nevis.columbia.edu>
To: "List for the 2014 Hot QCD White Paper Writing Group" 
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:34:20 AM
Subject: [Hot-qcd-whitepaper-l] Next steps

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. 

—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 
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 
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 

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 

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