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STAR Focus features are short articles intended to cover a variety of aspects of the STAR Experiment.


star focus: jets in nuclear collisions
Part 1 of a series on STAR analysis topics

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


star focus: beamtime!

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


star focus: quark matter 2005

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


star focus: let's meet in warsaw

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


Central Square in Warsaw, Poland


star focus: rhic lessons

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


star focus: graduate students

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


star focus: physics results

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


star focus: star and the data grid

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


star focus: regional meetings

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


Mukteshvara Temple in Bhubaneswar


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