sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Christine Nattrass <saccharomyces.cerevisae AT gmail.com>]

    Dear all
    
    I haven't seen ANY sPHENIX abstracts for DNP sent around!  ANY! 
    Surely there must be someone who could/should present at DNP?  From
    what I'm hearing from other sources, there is going to be higher
    than average turn out by the heavy ion community.  It would be a
    shame if there are no abstracts from sPHENIX!!
    
    DNP will announce later today that the deadline will be extended to
    July 1.  They have also stated clearly that the fee for students for
    an online meeting will be no more than $100 and that we should,
    "plan for a virtual DNP20 meeting."  This is an excellent
    opportunity for students!  And post docs!
    
Greetings,
Dr. Christine Nattrass
--
she, her, hers
Associate Professor
Physics Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Office:  SERF 609
Office Hours:  10:15-11:15 Mon. & 3-4 Wed.
Address:
1408 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
phone number at UTK: (865) 974-6211
http://web.utk.edu/~cnattras

On 6/16/20 6:03 AM, Christine Nattrass wrote:

      Dear sPHENIX
      
      Abstracts for DNP are due Fri. June 26.  There is a strong
      possibility this will be an online meeting.  When you submit your
      abstract, you will select whether you would present it in person
      only, online only, or either.  I would VERY strongly recommend
      that students and post docs and possibly faculty submit abstracts
      to present at DNP, particularly if it is online.  Historically,
      abstract submission at DNP from heavy ion physicists has been low
      and this has hurt the field's standing within the broader US
      nuclear physics community, where this is a major meeting.  The
      (literal) cost to participate is fairly low for an online
      meeting.  There will be a small registration fee if it is online
      to cover the costs of hosting an online meeting.  I also think it
      provides an excellent opportunity to get experience speaking.  It
      would also be good for sPHENIX to have a lot of talks there.
      
      I would also like to highlight the Conference Experience for
      Undergraduates.  Obviously this is going to be very different for
      an online conference, but I think it'll still be a great way for
      undergraduate to get exposure to conferences.  There will still be
      some kind of graduate fair as well, even if it is online.  That
      deadline is July 31. 
      
      There will also be a mini-symposium: Probing nucleons and
        nuclei in ultra-peripheral collisions and with vector-mesons
      Using ultra-peripheral proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus
      collisions both at RHIC and the LHC, the interaction between the
      Weizsacker-Williams photon flux and the proton or nucleus can be
      studied. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate small
      Bjorken-x gluon dynamics at photon intensities and energies that
      are unavailable elsewhere. The top of the accessible energy range
      is a factor of ten higher than that of the EIC, which offers a
      unique opportunity to explore this novel kinematic regime.
      Recently there is also new interest to use ultra-peripheral
      collisions to constrain the initial conditions for the subsequent
      evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Despite the recent
      experimental and theoretical progress, more work is needed to
      engage both communities, and to work on the synergies between UPC
      studies and the EIC is needed. The goal of this session is to
      identify and discuss the theoretical challenges of
      ultra-peripheral collisions, and how to use experimental knowledge
      from these collisions to prepare for the EIC.
      
      You can find more information here 
      https://www.aps.org/meetings/meeting.cfm?name=DNP20
      
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Greetings,
Dr. Christine Nattrass
--
she, her, hers
Associate Professor
Physics Department
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Office:  SERF 609
Office Hours:  10:15-11:15 Mon. & 3-4 Wed.
Address:
1408 Circle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996
phone number at UTK: (865) 974-6211
http://web.utk.edu/~cnattras