sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov>]

Hello again sPHENIX collaborators!

Prepare to raise your glass once more!  I've been reminded that Gunnan Xie (LANL) and JInlong Zhang (SBU) also won RHIC/AGS merit awards.  Their awards cite their very strong contributions on STAR, and both are very active in sPHENIX now!  Gunnan has worked on the sPHENIX D0 simulations in pp collisions and Jinlong has run key EIC-focused simulations.  Congratulations!

Cheers,
Dave

On 10/23/20 5:08 PM, David Morrison wrote:

Dear sPHENIX collaborators,

The RHIC/AGS Users' meeting finished up today, and the afternoon saw some of our sPHENIX collaborators recognized with well-deserved awards!  Congratulations to Jin Huang (BNL), Ron Belmont (UNC Greensboro), and Xiaoning Wang (UIUC)!

We were excellently represented in the topical workshops by Hideki Okawa (Fudan), Desmond Shingase (Michigan), and Christopher McGinn (Colorado).  And Caroline Riedl (UIUC) gave a top-notch talk in the plenary session this morning!

I visited several posters during the virtual session on Thursday afternoon and I was really impressed by what I saw and the discussions I had with the presenters.

Nicely done, everyone!
Dave and Gunther

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Merit award and poster contest runner up winners Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:39:21 -0400 Resent-From: morrison AT bnl.gov Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:39:11 -0400 From: Sevil Salur <salur AT physics.rutgers.edu> To: David Morrison <dave AT bnl.gov>, Gunther M Roland <rolandg AT mit.edu> CC: Christine Elizabeth Nattrass <cnattras AT utk.edu>, Ron Belmont <belmonrj AT gmail.com>

Dear Dave and Gunther

Jin and Ron both received a merit award during this years virtual RHIG/AGS AUM. Please find below their citation and brief summary. 

In addition, Xiaoning Wang’s poster titled “sPHENIX EMCal Design, Construction and Test Beam Results” was cited as the Poster Award Runner Up.

Congratulations to our sphenix collaborators, 

Best regards,  

Sevil 

Jin Huang for wide-ranging and impactful contributions to the RHIC and EIC programs spanning detector development, proposals of new observables, and analyses of spin asymmetries, heavy flavor production, and azimuthal anisotropies.

 

The RHIC/AGS Users Executive Committee recognizes Dr. Jin Huang’s notable contributions to the PHENIX and sPHENIX experiments and his impactful planning efforts for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) with a 2020 Merit Award.

Dr. Huang’s key contributions to the PHENIX experiment, including the forward silicon endcap (FVTX) upgrade, resulted in significant improvements in vertexing, tracking, and background rejection for muon arm analyses as well as enhanced determination of the event plane resolution. His research contributions resulted in many publications ranging from spin asymmetries to azimuthal anisotropy measurements in small systems to heavy flavor measurements such as the production of B mesons at forward rapidities. He continues to play crucial roles for the future EIC physics program and in the sPHENIX Collaboration by developing a methodology for electron identification and pion rejection for future Upsilon measurements, creating a readout architecture for the Time Projection Chamber and performing test beam studies for the calorimeter prototypes.

Dr. Jin Huang earned his Ph.D. in 2012 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

 

Ron Belmont for outstanding research exploring signatures of QGP formation and evolution of hydrodynamics from heavy-ion collisions to small systems.

 

The RHIC/AGS Users Executive Committee recognizes Dr. Ron Belmont for his outstanding research exploring the formation of QGP, and his service to the community in various roles such as the Users Executive Committee Chair with a 2020 Merit Award.

Dr. Belmont’s thesis results on PHENIX included a comprehensive set of measurements of identified hadrons which confirmed earlier measurements of a “baryon anomaly” in Au+Au collisions. His results were one of the early hints that these smaller systems may create a small droplet of quark-gluon matter. As a post-doctoral fellow, he explored the novel chiral magnetic effect at the LHC as a member of ALICE Collaboration. Upon returning to the RHIC program, Ron developed an innovative method for extracting multi-particle correlations using the PHENIX detector in challenging systems with low particle yields to explore the onset of QGP formation in small systems. The results revealed collectivity at all energies in the small system collision scan he help spearhead, giving strong evidence for final state interactions. Ron continues to play key roles in the sPHENIX Experiment.  Dr Belmont also served in leadership roles as a convener of the heavy-ion working group, a member of the executive council in PHENIX, and an elected chair of RHIC/AGS Users Executive Committee.

Sevil Salur

Associate Professor, 

RHIC/AGS UEC Past Chair 

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