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Join the meeting of Budapest and Zagreb ALICE groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to discuss collaboration in the study of the world's largest operational heavy-ion collider and the world's largest polarized proton collider.
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PHOBOS BRAHMS RHIC PHENIX STAR AGS TANDEMS Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY 1 km Animation M. Lisa World’s (second) largest operational heavy-ion collider World’s largest polarized proton collider
STAR Detectors • Full 2π coverage • Excellent particle identification • capabilities (Using TOF and TPC)
STAR detector layout TPC: -1.0 < < 1.0 FTPC: 2.8 < < 3.8 BBC : 2.2 < < 5.0 EEMC:1 < < 2 BEMC:0 < < 1 FPD: || ~ 4.0 & ~3.7 Transverse single spin asymmetries for the production of neutral pions in proton collisions at √s=200 GeV”.
RHIC as an Exotic/Antimatter Machine Science 328, 58 (2010) Nature 473, 353 (2011) STAR discovers the first anti-strange anti-nucleus STAR discovers the heaviest anti-nucleus (later confirmed by ALICE)
Joining ALICE 2011 Collaboration with Guy Paic working on HBT Mirko Planinić
Members of the Zagreb ALICE group Antonija Utrobičić grad student Goran Simatović grad student Dr. Nikola Poljak post-doc Prof. Mirko Planinić + Theory : Sanjin Benić grad student Doc. Davor Horvatić Prof. Dubravko Klabučar Mirko Planinić
Grant-2 years – 200 k€ (1 graduate student + one postdoc) GEM testing facility + Collaboration with UNAM Mexico and prof. Guy Paic Study of the momentum correlations in high energy collisions using event structure criteria and ALICE detector at LHC + Possible spinoff Mirko Planinić
Wewillneverseethewholebody Critical point ? HBT Jet quenching Energy density>Ec Elliptic flow High pT suppression
Laboratory is emptyspace Mirko Planinić
GEM for TPC • Ion feedback • Uniformity • Stability In collaboration with Danilo Vranic - CERN Mirko Planinić
We are just starting the project Mirko Planinić
Outlook • Horizon 2020 • Postdoc • Exchanginginformationabout GEM testingfacility • GEM workshops • Data analysis
Theory Thermodynamic instabilities in dynamical quark models with complex conjugate mass poles. Axial anomaly and the interplay of quark loops with pseudoscalar and vector mesons in the gamma* --> pi+ pi0 pi- process \eta' Multiplicity and the Witten-Veneziano relation at finite temperature. Mirko Planinić
Wewillneverseethewholebody Mirko Planinić LHC Days in Split 2012