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Next Generation Silicon Tracking for sPHENIX and the Electron-Ion Collider
Tuesday April 26, 2016
| 2:00 pm
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Presenter: | Michael McCumber, LANL |
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| Series: | Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars | |
| Abstract: |
While expected to behave as a free gas of nearly non-interacting quarks and gluons, the discovery of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) revealed a state of matter acting instead as a near perfect fluid. How the small viscosity of perfect fluidity arises from the microscopic system of quarks and gluons is not yet known. Heavy quark jets generated by hard scattering are especially useful probes of that structure and are best identified with a new generation of silicon technology providing low power consumption, low mass, and improved track precision. The sPHENIX Collaboration is proposing a new detector for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) aimed at exceent jet, heavy quark jet, and Upsilon reconstruction capabilities to address the structure of the QGP and to emerge as a day-1 detector for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a new facility for QCD studies highlighted in the Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan. With the potential addition of an electron ring to RHIC, the EIC and sPHENIX will enable a rich program in advanced proton spin structure, color charge interactions and gluon saturation within the nucleus, and beyond the Standard Model physics. |
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| Location: | PAIS-2540, PAIS | |
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