sPHENIX cold QCD topical group

["Aidala, Christine" <caidala AT bnl.gov>]

Dear all,

 

We will have a two-day workfest at BNL, Sunday, June 3 and Monday, June 4, to finish up anything that might be needed for the PAC presentation on June 7 and work on further studies as well as writing for the LOI due September 30^th.  We realize that this is relatively short notice, and that Monday the 4^th conflicts with the GPD workshop at the Stony Brook Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science.  However, we decided that setting aside a couple of dedicated days in June to work on the LOI would be valuable, and the two days before the sPHENIX Collaboration meeting at BNL were logical.  Some individuals who will be traveling for the GPD workshop on Monday may also be able to participate on Sunday.

 

The nominal hours both days will be 9 am – 5:30 pm, but anyone who is interested and can come for a few-hour block at any point is most welcome to join the efforts.  If you think you may join, please let Nils and me know so that we have a sense of how many people to expect and can better coordinate the work given the particular individuals who will be there.  In general, we anticipate working on some full GEANT studies for “core observables” that we may not complete for the PAC meeting, generator-level and/or GEANT studies for additional observables beyond the core ones we are preparing for the PAC meeting, and writing text for the LOI document itself.  We also welcome efforts to develop more advanced GEANT implementations of various subdetectors, more advanced reconstruction algorithms for the simulations, further consideration of things like electronics, readout, and triggering, etc.

 

Best regards,

Christine and Nils

 

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Christine A. Aidala

Associate Professor

Department of Physics

University of Michigan

(734) 764-7611