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NPP Seminar by Neha Shah (UCLA)

November 12th, 2013 by geurts

Date: Tuesday November 19, 2013 at noon
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University

Title: Search for exotics (H-dibaryon) with STAR
Speaker: Neha Shah (UCLA)
Abstract:

During past decade experiments at RHIC have shown that a strongly interacting, hot and dense partonic matter is formed in high energy nuclear collisions. The high temperature and presence of different flavor of quarks in the confined space makes heavy ion collisions the most suitable environment for the formation of multi-quark states like: tetra-quark, penta- quark and so on. The H-dibaryon is a multi-quark state with six quarks (uuddss) and was predicted by Jaffe in 1977. Considerable experimental efforts have been devoted to search for the H-dibaryon, however, there is no conclusive experimental evidence of its existence. At the STAR experiment we have tried two approaches to search for the H-dibaryon signal: measurement of Lambda-Lambda correlation function as well as reconstruction of signal using one of its weak decay mode H→Lambda-pi-p. In this talk, I will present the measurement of Lambda-Lambda correlations for sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV in Au+Au collisions using the STAR experiment at RHIC. I will also discuss implications of measurements of Lambda-Lambda correlations on H-dibaryon search.

STAR MTD/Endcap TOF Workshop (Nov. 20-22, 2013)

October 23rd, 2013 by geurts

Bonner Lab will host the STAR MTD/eTOF Workshop on Nov. 20-22, 2013.

The Muon Telescope Detector (MTD) is expected to be fully installed and commissioned for the upcoming RHIC Run 14 (starting Feb.’14). Together with the Heavy Flavor Tracker (HFT) which is also scheduled for operations during that run, the STAR detector will be in an excellent position to significantly improve its measurements on quarkonia, and lower invariant mass dileptons.

The meeting website can be found at this link: MTD/eTOF 2013 Workshop