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Wei Li named Sloan fellow
February 23rd, 2015 by geurtsNPP Seminar by Bora Akgun (Rice)
February 12th, 2015 by geurtsDate: Thursday March 12, 2015 at 4pm
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: CMS pixel detector phase-1 upgrade
Speaker: Bora Akgun (Rice)
Abstract:
The CMS pixel detector is at the centre of the CMS experiment and is made of three barrel layers and four endcap disks. It is essential for the reconstruction of track seeds and secondary vertices. The CMS experiment is going to upgrade its pixel detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider.
The new detector will provide an additional tracking layer and increased rate capability, suitable for the projected instantaneous luminosities of Run 2, well beyond the original design targets of the present pixel detector.
The new detector will provide an additional tracking layer and increased rate capability, suitable for the projected instantaneous luminosities of Run 2, well beyond the original design targets of the present pixel detector.
PhD Thesis defense Julie Hogan
February 5th, 2015 by geurtsDate & Time: February 5, 2015 at 10am
Location: Brockman Hall 200
Title: “Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry in the Production of B± Mesons in pp ̄ Collisions”
NPP Seminar by Mandy Rominsky (Fermilab)
January 24th, 2015 by geurtsDate: Tuesday February 17, 2015 at noon
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: The New g-2 Experiment at Fermilab
Speaker: Mandy Rominsky (Fermilab)
Abstract:
The measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon provides a test of the standard model and a handle on physics beyond the standard model. There is currently a 3 sigma discrepancy between theory and experiment. With 20 times the statistics and a factor of 4 improvement in the systematic errors, a new experiment at Fermilab aims to resolve this difference. In this talk I’ll discuss the experiment and our recent progress.
Muonic atoms at RHIC (HotQuarks ’14 proceedings), K. Xin
December 18th, 2014 by geurtsProceedings of Hot Quarks 2014 conference. To be appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
MS Thesis defense Zhenyu Chen
December 17th, 2014 by geurtsDate & Time: December 17, 2014 at 3pm
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall
Physicists Narrow Search for Solution to Proton Spin Puzzle
November 5th, 2014 by geurtsNew RHIC results reveal that gluons make a significant contribution to spin, an important intrinsic particle property; transient sea quarks also play a role.
BNL press release at http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=25112
Dielectron production in Au + Au collisions from STAR (HardProbes ’13 proceedings), J. Butterworth
October 30th, 2014 by geurtsin press
Search for Muonic Atoms at RHIC (PANIC’14 proceedings), K. Xin
October 30th, 2014 by geurtssubmitted
NPP Seminar by Xiaodong Jiang (LANL)
October 25th, 2014 by geurtsDate: Tuesday November 4, 2014 at noon
Location: 223 Herman Brown Hall, Rice University
Title: Left-right bias in high energy polarized e+n, p+p and p+A collisions
Speaker:Xiaodong Jiang (LANL)
Speaker:Xiaodong Jiang (LANL)
Abstract: Over the last three decades, large single-spin asymmetries have been observed in high energy polarized p?+p?hadron+X reactions on transversely polarized protons. According to perturbative QCD, this type of parity-conserving left-right asymmetry should be very small if produced from collinear quarks. However, when transverse momentum is considered, single-spin asymmetries can be generated either through quarks` angular motion or through transverely polarized quarks’ fragmentation processes. In the last decade, similar single-spin asymmetry phenomena have also been observed in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (e+N??e’+h+X), and very recently in inclusive hadron productions (e+N??h+X), on transversely polarized targets.I will describe recent experimental results and introduce upcoming transverse single-spin asymmetry measurements for polarized target Drell-Yan production at Fermilab (E1039, p+p? ?mu+mu- X), and for prompt photon and neutral pion productions in p?+p and p?+A collisions with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC