Parallel session - Heavy Flavor PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00BTag analysis update ( 00:30 ) 0 filesMark Heinz
14:30Electrons from BTag dataset ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBertrand Biritz
15:00Comparison of D0 variables from GEANT and reco ( 00:10 ) 1 fileJonathan/Jaiby Joseph
15:10Embedding status from heavy flavor ( 00:20 ) 1 fileAndrew Rose (LBL)
15:30
break ( 00:20 )
 
15:50Running embedding by ourselves ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAnders Knospe (Yale University)
16:20How to proceed with embedding? ( 00:30 ) 0 filesAll (Yale University)
16:50Analysis plans, QM2009, production, QA ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAll (Yale University)

Parallel session - Event by Event PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Search for Conical Emission with Three-particle Azimuthal Correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 fileClaude Pruneau (Wayne State University)
14:30Strong Parity Violation ( 00:20 ) 1 fileDhevan Gangadharan (UCLA)
15:00Parity Violation in Strong Interactions ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJim Thomas (LBNL)
15:30
Coffee ( 00:20 )
 
16:00E by E Summary ( 00:30 ) 1 fileGary Westfall (Michigan State University)

Lunch

Plenay session - Overview talks / Theory talks

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Status and prospects of the RHIC Spin program ( 00:30 ) 1 fileErnst Sichtermann (LBNL)
09:30Theory highlights of the RHIC Spin program ( 00:45 ) 0 filesFeng Yuan (LBNL)
10:15
Morning Break ( 00:15 )
 
10:30Highlights of the STAR soft physics program ( 00:30 ) 1 fileAnthony Timmins (Wayne State)
11:00Highlights of the STAR high-pT physics program ( 00:30 ) 0 filesMateusz Ploskon (LBNL)
11:30Theory highlights of the RHIC Relativistic Heavy-Ion program ( 00:45 ) 1 fileRainer Fries (TAMU)
12:15
Lunch ( 01:45 )
 

Advisory Board

Council Meeting

Parallel session - Joint HighPt and Spin PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00gamma-jet analysis in p+p and Au+Au ( 00:30 ) 1 fileA. Hamed or S. Mioduszewski
14:30Photon-jet reconstruction with the EEMC detector - Part 1 ( 00:20 ) 3 filesIlya Selyuzhenkov (IUCF)
14:50Photon-jet reconstruction with the EEMC detector - Part 2 ( 00:20 ) 1 filePibero Djawotho (IUCF)
15:10Prompt Photons using the Conversion Method ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJason Webb (IUCF)
15:30
Coffee break ( 00:15 )
 
15:45Inclusive neutral pion and direct photon production at high transverse momentum in p+p and d+Au at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV ( 00:20 ) 2 filesOleksandr Grebenyuk (LBNL)
16:15Status of Jet Libraries (StJetMaker, StJetFinder) ( 00:20 ) 2 filesTai Sakuma (LBNL)
16:45Systematic studies on jet finding in p+p ( 00:20 ) 1 fileElena Bruna (LBNL)
17:15Jet finding in Au+Au ( 00:20 ) 1 fileMateusz Ploskon (LBNL)
17:45Dijet analysis in p+p ( 00:20 ) 2 filesTai Sakuma (LBNL)

Parallel session - Peripheral collisions PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00rho prime analysis ( 00:30 ) 1 fileBoris Grube (Pusan)
09:30Starlight upgrades ( 00:30 ) 0 filesYury Gorbunov (Creighton)
10:00rho analyses (dAu and 62 GeV) ( 00:30 ) 0 filesJanet Seger (Creighton)
10:30
Break ( 00:15 )
 
10:45pp2pp update ( 00:30 ) 0 filesWlodek Guryn (BNL)
11:15New analyses ( 00:30 ) 0 filesSpencer Klein (LBNL)
11:45Future Planning ( 00:45 ) 0 files (LBNL)

Parallel session - Heavy Flavor PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00e-h correlation paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 3 filesShingo/Andre
09:40D* on jets paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 1 fileXin Dong
10:20
break ( 00:20 )
 
10:40Upsilon paper update/draft ( 00:40 ) 1 filePibero/Mauro/Debasish
11:20Triggers for Run 9 ( 00:40 ) 1 fileAll (with spin people?)
12:00
Lunch ( 02:00 )
 
14:00Update on D-mesons in Cu+Cu ( 00:30 ) 1 fileSarah LaPointe
14:30D-meson update ( 00:30 ) 1 fileStephen Baumgart
15:00e-D0 correlations ( 00:30 ) 1 fileArtemios Geromitsos
15:30
break ( 00:20 )
 

Parallel session - Event Structure PWG

Parallel session - Strangeness PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
11:00Multi-strange hadrons in Cu+Cu 200 GeV ( 00:30 ) 1 fileXianglei Zhu (Tsinghua)
11:30Low energy data - status and prospects ( 00:30 ) 1 fileHelen Caines (Yale)
12:00Prospects with current and future data ( 00:30 ) 0 filesLee Barnby (Birmingham)
12:30
Lunch ( 01:30 )
 

Parallel session - Spectra PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Photon Multiplicity results from Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV ( 09:30 ) 1 fileLokesh Kumar
11:00identified particle spectra at high pt in p+p collisions ( 11:40 ) 1 fileYichun Xu
11:40High-pt proton and pion spectra from 200 GeV Cu+Cu ( 12:20 ) 1 fileRichard Hollis
12:20Nuclei yields and v2 and comparison to models ( 13:00 ) 1 fileJianhang Zhou
13:00
lunch break ( 14:00 )
 
14:003 particle dphi-dphi correlations and 2 particle net charge correlations ( 14:50 ) 1 fileQuan Wang
14:503 particle deta-deta correlations ( 15:30 ) 1 filePawan Netrakanti (Purdue University)

Parallel session - Event by Event PWG

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Probe for Strong Parity Violation in Heavy Ion Collisions using Three Particle Correlations ( 00:45 ) 1 fileSergei Voloshin (Wayne State University)
09:45Update on System Size and Incident Energy Dependence of pt Fluctuations and Correlations at Mid-rapidity ( 00:30 ) 1 fileLokesh Kumar (Panjab University)
10:15K/pi Fluctuations and the Balance Function - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 00:30 ) 1 fileGary Westfall (Michigan State University)
10:45
Coffee ( 00:30 )
 
11:15pt-correlation ( 00:30 ) 1 fileMonika Sharma (Wayne State University)
11:45Method for study of ptpt correlation ( 00:20 ) 1 fileClaude Pruneau (Wayne State University)
12:05
Lunch Break ( 02:10 )
 
14:30Percolation and Long range correlations ------ DELETED ! ( 00:20 ) 0 filesTerry Tarnowsky (Purdue University)
14:30Paper Proposal: Charged and strange hadron elliptic flow from 200 and 62.4 GeV Cu+Cu collisions ( 00:30 ) 1 fileShusu Shi (Purdue University)
15:00Two-body correlation with respect to RP ( 00:30 ) 1 fileNa Li (LBNL)
15:30
Coffee ( 00:30 )
 
16:00AMPT Predictions for K/pi Fluctuations and the Balance Function ( 00:30 ) 1 fileHui Wang (Michigan State University)

Lunch

Plenary session - Upgrade Session / Future of STAR

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00FGT ( 00:20 ) 1 fileDoug Hasell (MIT)
14:20MTD ( 00:20 ) 1 fileLijuan Ruan (BNL)
14:40Gamma-Gamma Converter ( 00:20 ) 0 filesEvan Finch (Yale)
15:00HFT ( 00:20 ) 0 filesHans Georg Ritter (LBNL)
15:20SSD ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHoward Matis (LBNL)
15:40
Afternoon Break ( 00:20 )
 
16:00GEM Tracking Alignment ( 00:20 ) 2 filesDick Majka (Yale)
16:20Trigger Upgrades ( 00:15 ) 1 fileHank Crawford (LBNL)
16:25
( 00:00 )
 
16:35BSMD ( 00:10 ) 1 fileSteve Trentalange (UCLA)
16:45Town meeting: Long-term future of STAR ( 00:45 ) 0 filesDiscussion moderator: Zhangbu Xu (BNL)

Plenary session - Status of Experiment / Run 8 / BUR

TimeTalkPresenter
09:00Welcome ( 00:15 ) 0 filesNu Xu (LBNL)
09:15Status of STAR / RUN 8 Summary ( 00:45 ) 0 filesBill Christie (BNL)
10:00Town meeting: PWG restructuring / 5-Year Run Plan - BUR ( 01:00 ) 2 filesSTAR Management Team (BNL)
11:00
Morning Break ( 00:20 )
 
11:20DAQ 1000 Installation progress ( 00:20 ) 0 filesBill Christie (BNL)
11:40TOF installation update ( 00:20 ) 1 fileKohei Kajimoto (Texas)
12:00
Lunch ( 02:00 )
 

Lunch

Junior session 2

TimeTalkPresenter
14:00Predicting the Total Heavy Flavor Cross Section ( 00:50 ) 0 filesRamona Vogt (LBNL)
14:50Measuring the D0 and D_s yields in 200GeV Cu+Cu collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 fileStephen Baumgart (Yale University)
15:10Study of bottom quark contribution to nonphotonic electron by e-h correlations ( 00:20 ) 1 fileShingo Sakai (UCLA)
15:30
Afternoon Break ( 00:15 )
 
15:45J/Psi in 200 GeV Cu+Cu ( 00:20 ) 1 fileDaniel Kikola (LBNL)
16:05Measurement of non-photonic electrons in Cu+Cu 200 GeV collisions ( 00:20 ) 1 fileAnders Knospe (Yale University)
16:25Star TPC Space Charge and Grid Leak Calibration ( 00:20 ) 1 fileHao Qiu (Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou)
16:45Performance and analysis using the Silicon Strip Detector ( 00:20 ) 1 fileJonathan Bouchet (Kent State University)

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simulation : charge sharing

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The quality of SSD hits is calculated as the ratio of the sum of strips fired by the GEANT hit over the charge of the reconstructed cluster.