STAR eTOF Software Workshop at Rice
February 25, 2018
The endcap Time-of-Flight detector is a detector upgrade for the STAR experiment that will improve particle identification capabilities significantly in the more forward region of its rapidity coverage. It will be an essential component that will take advantage of the other important upgrade, i.e. replacement of the inner sectors of STAR's decades old workhorse, the TPC. The second phase of the Beam Energy Scan is scheduled to take place in 2019-2020. The iTPC and eTOF upgrades will need to be installed and ready to go before that time. As the hardware installation and commissioning efforts are all well under way, it is important that the software developments ramp up and all be ready to analyze the data that we register, even if only from the first few modules that are installed for the 2018 run.
In the week of February 19, a group of students from Rice, Heidelberg, Darmstadt, and UC Davis met to discuss what is needed and how to seed the various development tasks that lie ahead. In the picture, below, you see Geary Eppley (with his back towards the camera), and from left to right Florian Seck (UT Darmstadt), David Tlusty (Rice), Daniel Brandenburg (Rice), and Philipp Weidenkaff (Heidelberg) in a small windowless conference room ...
Picture courtesy of Joey Butterworth.
In the week of February 19, a group of students from Rice, Heidelberg, Darmstadt, and UC Davis met to discuss what is needed and how to seed the various development tasks that lie ahead. In the picture, below, you see Geary Eppley (with his back towards the camera), and from left to right Florian Seck (UT Darmstadt), David Tlusty (Rice), Daniel Brandenburg (Rice), and Philipp Weidenkaff (Heidelberg) in a small windowless conference room ...
Picture courtesy of Joey Butterworth.