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Emerging QCD Frontier: The Electron Ion Collider By Thomas
Ullrich
A cornerstone of the standard model of particle physics is
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions.
The exchange of gluons between quarks mediates the force that
provides the internal binding in all strongly interacting
particles, just as the exchange of photons between electrically
charged particles mediates the electromagnetic force. However,
unlike photons, gluons are much more than mere force carriers.
The gluons also have a color charge, and thus interact among
themselves. The self-interactions of gluons determine all the
unique features of QCD. More...
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MAPS Vertex Detector for STAR – HFT Pixel Development
By Leo Greiner
The STAR Heavy Flavor Tracker upgrade group is working to extend
the capabilities of the STAR detector in the heavy flavor domain
by providing a tracking system that will allow for very high
resolution vertex measurements. This upgrade is designed to
allow for the direct topological reconstruction of D and B
mesons through the identification of decay vertices displaced
from the primary interaction vertex by 100 – 150 microns. The
Pixel Detector is composed of two layers of high resolution
Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) and is the core of the
vertex detector upgrades for STAR.
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Undergraduate
Research at RHIC
Last week on August 8 and 9, students from ten summer programs
at Brookhaven presented the results of their research in poster
sessions and symposia. The programs, directed by Kenneth White,
the manager of Brookhaven’s Office of Educational Programs,
include the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
program in which over eighty-four undergraduate students in the
majoring in the sciences and engineering from all over the
United States come to Brookhaven to work with staff members.
Projects on topics touching RHIC and AGS were directed by
scientists and engineers in the Physics and Collider-Accelerator
departments.
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.