Hard Probes 2024
September 30, 2024
The Hard Probes 2024 conference has been exceptionally successful for STAR, with many talks and posters on behalf of the collaboration. Tthe STAR Highlights talk by Isaac Mooney (Yale) gives a very nice overview. Chenliang Jin presented his results from the dielectron analyses from the BES Phase 2.
His results were shown in a couple of overview talks that followed, as well as in the physics motivation for the JPARC-HI efforts in Japan.
His results were shown in a couple of overview talks that followed, as well as in the physics motivation for the JPARC-HI efforts in Japan.
Rice nuclear physics team tapped to lead $15 million Large Hadron Collider upgrade project
March 23, 2024
Under the direction of Wei Li, our heavy groups will build time-of-flight detectors for the CMS experiment at CERN. Our groups have vast experience with these types of detector using Multi-Gap Resistive Plain Chambers (MRPCs). What makes this project especially interesting is the use of a new technology, based on Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs). Accurate timing is all-important for time-of-flight detectors, and LGADs can deliver such timing with a precision of 30 picoseconds. What's more, these detectors are silicon based and thus can be very thin, possibly situated relatively close to the beam line without having too much of an effect on detectors that are mounted further away.
A Rice Media press release can be found at this link.
A Rice Media press release can be found at this link.
In the spotlight: QuarkNet
September 29, 2023
Our Rice/UH QuarkNet center made it in this week's QuarkNet Friday Flyer. Take a look at this URL: Friday Flyer Sept.28, 2023 or look at the picture, below.
QuarkMatter 2023
September 04, 2023
The QuarkMatter 2023 conference wrapped up with many group pictures. Below is a small collage of pictures, including Yiding Han's presentation.
Yiding Han's presentation on BES-2 Thermal Dielectron Measurements
Co-chairs of the QuarkMatter conference at The Rustic
The STAR Collaboration at QM23
Yiding Han's presentation on BES-2 Thermal Dielectron Measurements
Co-chairs of the QuarkMatter conference at The Rustic
The STAR Collaboration at QM23
STAR PreQM'23 Meeting
September 02, 2023
Almost 70 STAR collaborators descended on the Rice campus to participate in the Pre-QuarkMatter meeting. Within a 3-day, jam-packed agenda the collaboration rehearsed all its oral contributions to the QuarkMatter conference, which followed the next week. While outdoor temperatures were consistently about 100F, the campus provided for a welcoming environment in part thanks to the graduate student bar Valhalla and the neighboring Rice Village. Of course, no self-respecting workshop can end without a group picture and below, you'll see an energized STAR collaboration in the Kyle Morrow room on the 3rd floor of the Fondren Library at Rice University. On the big screen you will recognize a few of our online participants, and all the way in the front you can see some of our (very) junior, future collaborators. 😀
