May 18, 2004

NSAC Subcommittee on Heavy Ion Physics

 

Agenda,  Public Sessions

Large Seminar Room, BNL Physics Dept.

June 2 – 6, 2004

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8:30 AM Wednesday, June 2                                  

 I. Opening Remarks,

     A. Welcome                                                          Praveen Chaudhari

B. Charge to NSAC and Subcommittee                  Dennis Kovar/Brad Keister

C. NSAC HI Review: Motivation and Process        Peter D. Barnes

 

 II. Physics Opportunities with Heavy Ion Reactions

A.   Recent Progress at RHIC

9:15  Star Collaboration assessment                       Raimond Snellings [15]

9:30  Phobos Collaboration assessment                 Wit Busza [10]

9:50  PHENIX Collaboration assessment               Yasuyuki Akiba [15]

10:05 Brahms Collaboration assessment                 Flemming Videbaek [10]

                       

10:25 Coffee

B.   Opportunities for the Future( part 1)

10:55 Evolution of Physics-goals                           Miklos Gyulassy[20]

11:35 Evolution of Physics-goals                           Jean Paul Blaizot [20]

12:15 Next ten years of physics at RHIC                Bill Zajc [25]

1:00  Lunch

 

2:00  The physics opportunity at the LHC             Bolek Wyslouch [15]

III. Experimental Programs

A. RHIC

2:30 BNL Long-term plan for RHIC                      Sam Aronson [25]

3:15 RHIC Luminosity Upgrade                            Thomas Roser [25]

        (Electron Cooler & EBIS Source)

4:00  Coffee

Unpolarized Collisions

4:30             a. STAR- Future Program                   Tim Hallman[25]

5:15                       TOF Barrel Upgrade                 Richard Majka[15]

5:45                       Silicon MicroVertex Detector    Howard Wieman [15]

6:15  END Wednesday

6:30 Reception

 

May 18, 2004

8:30 AM Thursday, June 3

III.A RHIC Experimental Programs

Unpolarized Collisions (cont.)

 

8:30            b. PHENIX- Future Program               Axel Drees [25]

9:15                      Silicon Vertex Tracker              Craig Ogilvie [15]

9:40                      Nose Cone Cal/W boson trig.   Ken Barish [15]

 

10:05          c. Forward Physics at RHIC               Les Bland [20]

 

10:40 Coffee

                   d. New Detectors

11:10                    New General Purpose Detector  Thomas Ullrich [20]

 

  Opportunities for the Future( part 2)

11:45          Evolution of Physics-goals                  Dima Kharzeev [20]

12:25          Evolution of RHIC Physics                 Ed Shuryak [20]

1:05 Lunch

 

2:00            Evolution of Physics-goals                 Berndt Mueller [20]

2:40            Lattice QCD for HI physics                Frithjof Karsch [20]

 

GSI

3:20            HI Physics Opportunity at GSI           Bengt Friman [20]

3:55            HI Physics and Experiments               Peter Braun-Munzinger[20]

                               FAIR@GSI

4:30  coffee

 

 RHIC SPIN

4:50            Objectives for Spin Physics at RHIC  Werner Vogelsang [20]

5:25            Experimental Issues/upgrades             Matthias Perdekamp [20]

6:00            Machine Goals                                   Mei Bai [15]

 

6:25  END Thursday

 

May 18, 2004

8:30 AM Friday, June 4

          ELECTRON-ION COLLIDER

8:30            Overview-Electron Ion Collisions        Raju Venugopalan [20]

9:05            Realization at e-RHIC                         Richard Milner[20]

9:40            Detector Issues for e-RHIC                Abhay Deshpande [15]

10:05          Realization at e-LIC                            Rolf Ent [20]

10:40 Coffee

 

LHC

11:00           Physics Overview                               Keijo Kajantie [20]

11:35          ALICE                                               Thomas Cormier [15]

12:05          ATLAS                                              Helio Takai [15]

12:35          CMS                                                  Russell Betts [15]

1:05  Lunch

 

          Fermilab   

2:00            Gluon physics at the Tevatron             Mike Albrow[20]

 

IV.  Physics – Computational Issues        

2:35   Dynamic Modeling of RHIC collisions          Steffen Bass [10]

2:55  Data processing requirements                        Bruce Gibbard [10]

3:15  Coffee

 

V.  The HI physics community

3:45  The RHIC User Community                         Vicki Greene [10]

          4:00   Comments and Discussion from the Floor [60]

 

VI. Long Range View                                       

5:00  Theory Outlook                                            Larry McLerran[20]

5:30  BNL Outlook                                               Tom Kirk [20]

Final Questions from the Subcommittee

6:15  END Friday

End of Public Sessions

Subcommittee Executive Sessions: 

          Saturday, June 5              8:00 AM  to 7:00 PM

          Sunday, June 6                8:00 AM to 1:00 PM