sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

["Dean, Cameron" <cdean AT bnl.gov>]

Dear open heavy flavor and quarkonia enthusiasts,

 

Run 24 has ended. Congratulations to everyone who has worked so hard to make this a success. We have collected a large data set, with triggered and streamed samples on disk, and now is the time to start setting up our analyses.

 

As was mentioned in the last PCM, there are two proposed abstracts for Quark Matter which are covered under our topical group:

 

(1) Lambda_c / D0 ratio in pp

(2) D_s / D+ ratio in pp

 

These are not the only PPGs that can be formed, but these will be topics that we will focus on for QM next year.

 

We will have a topical group meeting this Wednesday, October 23rd at 1:30pm ET, and a second meeting next week. We are soliciting presentations from all institutions or individuals on physics topics that they are interested in, and contributions that they can make to sPHENIX. We would encourage groups to combine multiple topics into a single presentation. We would ask you prepare at most 2 slides per topic to outline the

 

(1) Topic

(2) Timescale and feasibility

(3) Workforce and expertise (staff, students and postdocs)

 

If you would like to present, please let us know and we can add you to either agenda. If the time of the meeting is not suitable, you can also upload slides indicating interest or email us which will allow us to write a complete list to send to Dennis, Anne and Joe.

 

The zoom link is https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1613938007?pwd=QjYzUnpYQ2xNZWZLSy9qd3Z4dFpzZz09

and the indico agenda can be found at https://indico.bnl.gov/event/25190/

 

Talk to you all soon,

Cameron, Tony, Marzia and Jin