sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[David Morrison <morrison AT bnl.gov>]

Dear sPHENIX collaborators,

Summer Sunday is nearly here!  A number of people have volunteered to help this coming Sunday -- but we need more!  I'm looking to triple our current numbers at least.  If you're an sPHENIX student or postdoc or faculty on site or nearby, then you're qualified!

I've divided the day into two overlapping shifts: 10am-1pm and noon-3pm.  So even if you have beach plans for Sunday, you should be able to help out for a shift before heading down to Smith Point.

The organizers have promised lunch and a shirt for participants!

I have a google doc with our current roster of volunteers (link below).  Take a look and let me know if you can take a morning or afternoon shift talking to the public about sPHENIX.  Send me an email to let me know.  I need to finalize our roster by Wednesday in order to get shirts for everyone.  So act now!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLK34gWEuih8rjlhaHMz9clfIud5Tpv910eC_lxe594/edit?usp=sharing

Cheers,
Dave

On 7/19/23 3:19 PM, David Morrison wrote:

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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