sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov>]

Dear sPHENIX collaborators,

I'm sure you know that BNL has a series of open houses each summer -- 
collectively, "Summer Sundays".  The open house on Sunday, July 30 
focuses on RHIC and EIC.  They're subtitling it "Fascinating Physics -- 
with the universe's basic building blocks".

In past years, we would have busloads of people coming out to see the 
experiments in situ.  RHIC is running this summer, which means the 
public won't be coming out to see sPHENIX.

Instead we'll be setting up displays in the lobby of Chemistry (Bldg. 
555).  We're planning to have tables with detector prototypes, monitors 
with videos of installation, EMCal blocks, silicon detectors with a USB 
microscope, scintillators with UV flashlights, and maybe a cloud chamber 
or two.  We're also planning to have the inner HCal and EMCal protoype 
sectors out front, and if we can swing it - the full-sized outer HCal 
prototype on a truck parked in front of the building.

What do we need in addition to all this?  People.  We have lots of 
collaborators on site - faculty, postdocs, students - and this is a 
great chance to talk to the public about what you do.  The event is 
scheduled from 10am-3pm on July 30 and we need a dozen or more people 
(two dozen would be better) to volunteer to help out.  I'll describe the 
plans in more detail at this Friday's general meeting, but think of this 
as a "save the date" email.

Cheers,
Dave

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David Morrison  Brookhaven National Laboratory  phone: 631-344-5840
                Physics Department, Bldg 510 C    fax: 631-344-3253
                          Upton, NY 11973-5000  email: dave AT bnl.gov