STAR eTOF installation nears completion

With the installation of the lower 6 sectors, the endcap Time-of-Flight (eTOF) detector, a joint CBM/STAR project, has been fully installed as of Wednesday Nov.21. With the gas, high voltage, low voltage, clock and DAQ connections all in place the next step will follow in the commissioning efforts towards STAR's Beam Energy Scan Phase 2 which is scheduled to start late February/early March. Geary Eppley of Rice together with collaboration members from Heidelberg and with the excellent support from STAR's Technical Support Group have been working in the past couple of weeks getting the 36 modules -all shipped from Heidelberg, Germany- mounted to the endcap.