sPHENIX discussion of physics

["Shi, Zhaozhong" <zhaozhongshi AT lanl.gov>]

Dear Cameron,

I have produced a new draft for my ISMD 2023 talk after applying all your comments. Please see the link below for my updated slides:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JoOAY9mABH6KuhRijE7fZQaK97ussiIt/view

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Zhaozhong Shi

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From: Cameron Thomas Dean <cameron.dean AT cern.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 9:43 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Sphenix-hf-jets-l] [ISMD 2023] First Draft for My Talk at ISMD 2023 Conference

 

Hi Zhaozhong,

Thanks for your slides, they’re looking good. I have some comments and suggestions:

In general, you likely have too many slides for a 12+3 talk. My general thought it 1 minute per slide but slide 2 is your general overview of sPHENIX so you’ll likely spend 3 minutes on that slide alone discussing the detectors, run plans, DAQ etc. With 16 slides, you may end up rushing over the physics slides which should be the focus of the talk. My thoughts would be to trim out slide 4 (as you’ll probably say this in the overview slide). I would combine slides 5 and 6, and (sorry calorimeters and jet enthusiasts) I would cut slides 8 and 9. This would get you 12 slides and allow you to really drive home the physics for us.

Slide 2: I would change the phrasing of 2015 NSAC Long Range Plan. The conference is in Europe so there’s likely a large portion of the audience who don’t understand what it means. You could say something like “Highest priority of US long term science agenda” or “DOE flagship HI experiment” or something like that.

Also on this slide, your last bullet point should be rephrased as we sadly ended run 23. You could say first collisions have ended and we’re currently commissioning. I’m sure there are people in the audience that know RHIC has stopped for the year. You mention in your summary slide that the run is ongoing as well.

Slide 5: You should swap the plots with the approved preliminary ones from Invenio, https://sphenix-invenio.sdcc.bnl.gov/communities/sphenixcommunity/requests/d35b771c-775e-43b2-99a0-04bbe3ac17e6

 

Slide 6: I would be careful or even remove the last point. We won’t have collision data with the full of sPHENIX until next year.

Slide 7: The event display is good and we’ll replace it with the approved version. Just a note in case of questions, the point in the MVTX that is not part of the cosmic track is a noisy pixel.

Slide 9: If you keep this, I’ve seen people in the audience before ask what the conversion of ADC to GeV is (it should be pretty obvious by using the PDG mass of the pi0), maybe ask an EMCal expert about the value

Slide 20: I would remove this, I don’t think we can resolve the cluster sizes by Friday in the cosmic runs.

I’ll be in BNL tomorrow and can come by 1008 if you want to talk about anything.

Cheers,

Cameron

On Aug 15, 2023, at 1:25 PM, Shi, Zhaozhong via sPHENIX-HF-jets-l <sphenix-hf-jets-l AT lists.bnl.gov> wrote:

Dear sPHENIX Heavy Flavor Topical Group Conveners,

I have produced a draft for my ISMD 2023 talk scheduled at 10:30 am EDT on Thursday 08/24.

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1258038/contributions/5535809/

I included an MVTX+INTT+TPOT event display, which is not yet approved but will become preliminary by the end of this week. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iAA8HlP4Ohtr4IKyyh18r-yhLz5Ihagw/view

My talk will be 12 (talks) + 3 (discussion) minutes. Can you have a look at my slides? Any feedback or suggestion will be highly appreciated. Thank you very much!

Sincerely,

Zhaozhong Shi

Zhaozhong Shi, PhD

Director's Postdoctoral Fellow

P-3: Nuclear and Particle Physics and Application

Los Alamos National Laboratory

TA-53 Building 1 A106

Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

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