Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Program Advisory Committee Meeting
June 15-16, 2009
Agenda
Reference Documents
Letter to Barbara Jacak and Nu Xu (1/29/09) giving charge for PAC presentations (pdf)
Progress Towards RHIC's Future, Steve Vigdor's Talk at the Users' Meeting, 5 June 2009 (pdf)
Monday, June 15, 2009
Bldg. 510 (Physics) Room 2-160
8:30 – 9:00 Executive session
Open Session Bldg. 510 (Physics) Large Seminar Room
9:00 – 9:15 S. Vigdor: Charge to PAC; overview of long-term run planning and budgets
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:45 T. Ludlam: Status report on detector upgrades (20' + 10')
10:45 – 11:30 D.
Kharzeev: Theory perspective on search for P- and CP-violating vacuum
fluctuations (30' + 15')
11:30 – 12:15 K. Rajagopal: Theory perspective on search for QCD critical point (30’ + 15’)
Bldg. 510 (Physics) Room 2-160
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch and Executive Session
Open Session Bldg. 510 (Physics) Large Seminar Room
14:00
– 15:00
J. Dunlop:
STAR Beam Use
Proposal + recent accomplishments + plans to
handle upgraded luminosity (40’ + 20’)
15:00 – 16:00
B. Jacak:
PHENIX Beam Use Proposal + recent
accomplishments + plans to
handle upgraded luminosity (40’ + 20’)
Bldg. 510 (Physics) Room 2-160
16:00 – 18:00 Executive session
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Executive Session Bldg. 510 (Physics) Room 2-160
9:00 – 9:30 Collaboration responses to any overnight homework assignments
9:30 – 14:00 Report preparation