sPHENIX cold QCD topical group

["Riedl, Caroline" <criedl AT illinois.edu>]

Dear cold QCD groups and group leaders,

The cold QCD conveners invite you at the cold QCD meeting next week (Thursday October 24, 8:30 ET), as announced at the topical group meeting last week, to briefly summarize your group's plans for physics analysis and possible PPG formations. This can be done in the form of 1-2 slides. This will help identifying synergies between groups and ease PPG formation. We are interested in the following information: 

• Planned cold QCD analysis topics
• Person power
• Constraints (like "person will work 60% on EIC hardware", "student plans to defend by X").
• More details are welcome, like what further input is needed (e.g., special simulation requests, as announced by Dennis here https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/msg/sphenix-cold-qcd-l/2024-10/n9NMptOa72ODTVOgT2LNXA). 
• Anticipated intersections with other topical groups
• Do members of your group require service tasks? Are there any plans yet? We can also help streamlining this process. 

Resources:

• Anne's presentation about PPG formation at today's PCM, https://indico.bnl.gov/event/25137/contributions/97731/attachments/58012/99622/sickles_101824.pdf
• sPHENIX publication policy, https://indico.bnl.gov/event/15793/attachments/40900/68367/sPHENIX_bylays_20211015-11-18.pdf

Cheers,

Caro and Ralf

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Caroline Riedl
Research Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Department of Physics
467 Loomis Laboratory