sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[Marzia Rosati <marziarosati AT gmail.com>]

Congratulations to all for a job well done and well deserved awards!
Marzia


On 10/23/20 4:08 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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