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November 5, 2012Status of STAR Experiment at RHICStudy emergent properties of matter with QCD degrees of freedomNu Xu(1) College of Physical Science & Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China (2) Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
STAR Collaboration STAR Experiment STAR Experiment at RHIC ( http://www.star.bnl.gov/ ) Fundamental science: particle physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, … State of art technology: detector R&D, simulations, IT, computing, mass/fast data managing, … - 550 scientists - 55 institutes - 13 countries ~ 140 PhD thesis completed since 2001
STAR Detectors Fast and Fullazimuthal particle identification EMC+EEMC+FMS (-1 ≤ ≤ 4) MRPC Time Of Flight MTD2013 DAQ1000 Time Projection Chamber (TPC) Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) 2013 FGT 2011 BNL PAC, 21 - 22, 2010
Particle Identification at STAR TPC TOF TPC TPC K pd π e, μ TOF Log10(p) Charged hadrons Hyperons & Hyper-nuclei MTD HFT Jets EMC Neutral particles Jets & Correlations High pTmuons Heavy-flavor hadrons Multiple-fold correlations among the identified particles!
STAR Detector Configurations • STAR: Large coverage, excellent PID, fast DAQ • - detects nearly all particles produced at RHIC • - multiple fold correlation measurements • - Probes: bulk, penetrating, and bulk-penetrating • STAR: Perfect mid-y Collider Experiment • STAR: Expanding into high rapidity regions
Data Sets at STAR Experiment Heavy Ion Collisions Polarized p+p Collisions • RHIC&STAR upgrades lead to dramatic increase data statistics • The best of STAR is still ahead of us: Precision measurements!
Record on Publications May, 2012
STAR BUR for Runs 13 and 14 May be 15 GeV Au+Au Collisions Run 13: 20 cryo-week. 510pp: 55% polarization Run 14: 20 cryo-week. 200pp: 65% polarization
Exploring the QCD Phase Structure TERHIC, SPS, FAIR 2 Tini, TC LHC, RHIC Phase boundary RHIC,FAIR, NICA 3 1 1 2 3 Hadronic Matter Partonic Matter
QCD Phase Structure Hot QCD Matter Cold QCD Matter RHIC eIC (eRHIC) Study phase structure with QCD degrees of freedom
Study QCD Phase Structure HFT: HF, γ-jet, γ-hadron, e-μ, e-e,.. STAR Core Programs BES-I *e-cooling, BES-II, √sNN ≤ 20GeV Spin: W±, ΔG, AN LHC FAiRRHIC Forward tracking upgrade, connection to eRHIC CBM (√sNN ≤ 12GeV ) LHC full energy program Need more involvements in future upgrade programs!
Δu Δd Precision Spin Results at RHIC
RHIC BES-I Highlights (1) Net-proton High Moments (2) ϕ-meson Productions Critical Fluctuations: Search for QCD critical point Multi-strange hadrons: QCD phases
RHIC BES-I Highlights (3) Jet-quenching (5) “Local Parity Violation” (4) NCQ Scaling in v2 sQGP key signatures turned off!
STAR 2nd White Paper Committee Membership: D. Cebra, X. Dong, J. Dunlop, O. Evdokimov, C. Gagliardi, H.Z. Huang, D. Keane, B. Mohanty (Chair), E. Sichtermann, P. Sorensen, B. Surrow, S. Wissink, N. Xu, Z.B. Xu Charges: This committee will work with the collaboration as a whole to write a concise and comprehensive summary of experimental results, from both heavy-ion collision and spin physics, since 2005. Based on the understanding of these results and the theoretical developments, the science case for continuing operation of RHIC during 2015-2020 should be outlined in the document. This White Paper is expected to be submitted to a refereed journal for publication in early 2013. Structure of the document: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Review conclusions from previous white paper Chapter 3: New theoretical ideas Chapter 4: Initial conditions Chapter 5: Properties of sQGP Chapter 6: Exploring the QCD phase diagram (BES-I) Chapter 7: Spin physics Chapter 8: Outlook and future directions Timelines for the document: - Executive summary by end of August 2012 - Full document by February, 2013
Outlook RHIC: Dedicated facility for studying matter with QCD degrees of freedom: - Properties of QGP - Sea quark and gluon contributions to proton helicity structure - QCD critical point, phase boundary 2) Future: EIC (eRHIC, 2025 - …) - Partonic structures of nucleon and nuclei - Dynamical evolution from cold nuclear matter to hot QGP Emergent Properties of QCD Matter Phase Structures of QCD Matter