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STAR Focus features are short articles intended to cover a variety of
aspects of the STAR Experiment.
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star focus: jets in nuclear collisions
Part 1 of a series on STAR analysis topics
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In high energy p+p collisions, the hard scattering of quarks and gluons early in the collision
leads to the production of jets,
narrow streams of particles that allow physicists
to detect and understand the scattering. In nuclear collisions at RHIC,
jets instead
serve as a penetrating probe of the extremely dense nuclear matter formed in the collision.
Comparing characteristics of jets in nuclear collisions to jets in p+p
collisions has uncovered special properties of dense nuclear matter at RHIC.
Read more...
| Posted Aug 3, 2006
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star focus: beamtime!
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STAR's preparations are underway for the 2006 RHIC beamtime, thanks to
special
funding for this year's experimental operations. This year's "beamtime" is
the sixth annual RHIC run, with
about 15 weeks of colliding polarized proton beams scheduled to begin in early
March. STAR collaborators come to BNL during the experiment to serve weekly
shifts as part of six-member shift teams, and each member has specific tasks
to perform while on shift.
More...
RHIC '06 operations plan
| Posted Feb 2, 2006
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star focus: quark matter 2005
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The 18th International Conference on Nucleus Nucleus Collisions
(Quark Matter 2005)
was held in Budapest, Hungary,
August 4-9. STAR presented new results on several fronts,
summarized in two experimental
summary talks on the conference's
first day and a special focus
talk on the last day. STAR contributed 15 parallel talks and
many posters.
STAR at QM 2005
| Posted Aug 11, 2005
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star focus: let's meet in warsaw
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This summer, STAR will hold its semi-annual collaboration meeting
in Warsaw, Poland, preceeding the Quark Matter 2005 conference in Hungary.
The collaboration meeting will be hosted
by Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska), a STAR member institute.
Meetings before major conferences give collaboration members the chance to review
results, share posters and practice talks.
Meetings away from BNL also allow institutions to open their
doors to fellow collaborators.
Read more...
| Posted May 31, 2005
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star focus: rhic lessons
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As part of a joint venture between BNL and JINR (Dubna) called the
Online Science Classroom, a series of
RHIC Lessons
have been created by STAR Collaborators in Dubna. These lessons introduce many
aspects of the research carried out by STAR, from the process of colliding different
beams of particles to the challenges of studying the formation of a quark-gluon
plasma. The lessons require Macromedia Flash Player.
RHIC Lessons
| Posted March 5, 2005
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star focus: graduate students
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One of the primary missions of STAR is to provide rigorous training for
graduate students, who account for much of the hands-on detector and analysis
efforts for the experiment. As a result, STAR has produced an impressive number of graduate
degrees over a wide range of thesis topics. Click here for a list of graduate thesis titles, with links
to many thesis files.
Read more...
| Posted January 21, 2005
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star focus: physics results
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Nearly four years have passed since STAR's
first publication,
on the observation of evidence for
strong early expansion in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, appeared in Physical Review Letters.
Since then, 23 other Physical Review Letters have followed, more than any
nuclear physics experiment in history. A growing list of brief summaries of our
publications is available on our website.
Physics results summaries
| Posted November 19, 2004
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star focus: star and the data grid
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As the amount of data recorded by the STAR Experiment accumulates, the data storage
and data processing needs grow as well. STAR is an active participant in the
Particle Physics Data Grid, a project to manage
and distribute data and data analysis tasks across a large network of computing
facilities around the country.
Read more...
| Posted September 24, 2004
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star focus: regional meetings
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STAR Collaborators comprise a community of scientists and technicians from
13 countries on four continents, and getting everyone together isn't always
an easy task. That's one reason behind STAR Regional Meetings, smaller
gatherings of STAR members a bit further from RHIC than the BNL physics building.
Regional Meetings were held in China and Russia in 2003. Next up: Bhubaneswar, India,
in October.
Read more...
| Posted August 1, 2004
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