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BNL PHOBOS Group:The Final Chapter

Peter SteinbergBrookhaven National Laboratory

July 25, 2006

BNL PHOBOS Group FY06

PeterSteinberg

AndreiSukhanov

RobertPak

RachidNouicer

MarkBaker

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2006

Group ProjectsIn summer 2005,

the PHOBOS detectorwas removed from RHIC tunnel

In 2003, BNL PHOBOS Groupofficially joined the VTX upgrade

for PHENIX

In 2005, BNL PHOBOS Groupbegan involvement with ATLAS heavy ion group

FY06 Activities

PROPOSALfor a Nosecone Calorimeter (NCC)

for the PHENIX Experiment

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collidier

March, 2006

Spokesperson: William A. Zajc,Columbia University

Deputy Spokesperson: Yasuyuki Akiba,RIKEN

Deputy Spokesperson: Matthias Grosse-Perdekamp,University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Operations Manager: Edward J. O’Brien,Brookhaven National Laboratory

Upgrades Manager: Axel Drees,Stony Brook University

PHOBOS is nowan analysisexperiment

(BNL group stillresponsible for

decommissioning)

ATLAS HI isnow ramping up

rapidly as a physics group

PHENIX involvement hasexpanded to both

VTX and NCC upgrades

FY06 Activities•BNL PHOBOS group is a set of

strong individual workers• Group activities organized to maximize impact

on PHOBOS, PHENIX & ATLAS

• Will present individual progress

•Major contributors to all projects• Experiments (VTX, NCC)

• Physics Research (PHOBOS, ATLAS)

•Noucier & Pak will present their work in next two talks

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Interlude: New Hire•Jiangyong Jia• PhD SUNYSB 2003

• Postdoc Columbia 2003-2006

•Joint SUNYSB/BNL hire• Starting August 2006

•Major contributor to PHENIX• Jet suppression

• High pT correlation studies

•Interests in ATLAS-HI & PHENIX• Jet reconstruction, hard probes

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Baker•On sabbatical 3-10/06• SUNYSB, OSU

•Major contributions• Leading PHOBOS group through

major transitions to PHENIX & ATLAS

• Led US-ATLAS HI group, serving as project manager. DOE review in 9/05 & 2/06 Contributor to elliptic flow studies in PHOBOS

• Co-developed “participant eccentricity”, major “hit” at QM2005

• Pushed through SUNYSB/BNL Chem hire

Sukhanov• Spotlight award

for FY06• cited for “resourcefulness,drive,

and tremendous technical skill”

• Major contributions• Prepared and presented

proposal for front-end electronics for NCC at BNL Review on PHENIX Forward Upgrade 4/06

• Presentation on NCC at ‘06IEEE NSS-MIC (Puerto Rico)

• NCC Testbeam at IHEP 10/05: installation, run control, data-taking↑• Stripixel prototyping (Summer 2006)

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Steinberg• Tenured in April 2006

• Responsibilities:• PHOBOS Project manager, head of

computing, RCF liason, paper committees, Multiplicity group

• Achievements:• Lead author of 3 PHOBOS multiplicity papers accepted to

PRC

• Co-developed “participant eccentricity”

• Physics & Computing coordinator for USATLAS-HI group.

• Workshop and conference talks on PHOBOS, PHENIX, ATLAS & A+A phenomenology





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