Wed·Jun 29, 2011Wednesday·June 29, 2011

1. 01*

   The PHENIX Decadal Plan: Crafting the Future of RHIC

   Christine A. Aidala (for the PHENIX Collaboration)🇺🇸

   After ten years of running, the PHENIX Collaboration is starting to lay out the compelling physics that RHIC, as the most versatile hadron collider in the world, will be well positioned to explore beyond the program planned for upgrades already in progress. As the fields that RHIC set out to investigate have advanced and evolved, new questions and directions have arisen at the frontiers of QCD, and we have exciting opportunities before us to continue to confront the challenges and surprises of strong interactions into the next decade. The latest thoughts of the PHENIX Collaboration on this ongoing planning process for the future of RHIC are discussed.

   nucl-exhep-exJ.Phys.Conf.Ser.(2011)·0 citations
2. 02*

   ALICE results from the first Pb-Pb run at the CERN LHC

   J. Schukraft (for the ALICE Collaboration)🇨🇭

   After 20 years of preparation, the dedicated heavy ion experiment ALICE took first data at the CERN LHC accelerator with proton collisions at the end of 2009 and with lead beams at the end of 2010. This article will give a brief overview of the main results presented at the Quark Matter 2011 conference.

   ↳ hep-exnucl-exJ.Phys.G(2011)·36 citations
3. 03*

   A 1 mm Scintillating Fibre Tracker Readout by a Multi-anode Photomultiplier

   B.D. Leverington🇮🇹 · M. Anelli🇮🇹 · P. Campana🇮🇹 · R. Rosellini🇮🇹

   This note describes a prototype particle tracking detector constructed with 1 mm plastic scintillating fibres with a 64 channel Hamamatsu H8500 flat-panel multi-anode photomultiplier readout. Cosmic ray tracks from an array of 11 gas-filled drift tubes were matched to signals in the scintillating fibres in order to measure the resolution and efficiency of tracks reconstructed in the fibre-based tracker. A GEANT4 detector simulation was also developed to compare cosmic ray data with MC results and is discussed in the note. Using the parameters measured in this experimental setup, modified fibre tracker designs are suggested to improve resolution and efficiency in future prototypes to meet modern detector specifications.

   ↳ physics.ins-dethep-exnucl-ex7 citations

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