STAR Future & Upgrade

Under:
 
  1. SN0773 - Jun. 2021: STAR Beam Use Request for run 22, 23-25
  2. SN0755 - Sep 2020: STAR Beam Use Request for run 21, 22, 23-25
  3. SN0721 - May 2019: STAR Beam Use Request for run 20 and 21
  4. SN0696 - May 2018: STAR Beam Use Request for run 19 and 20
  5. SN0670 - May 2017: STAR Beam Use Request for run 18 and run 19
  6. Post-shower proposal and review report  May 2016
  7. The RHIC Cold QCD Plan from 2017 to 2023: A portal to the EIC - Jan. 2016
    draft: December 2015
  8. Endcap TOF proposal-Jan. 2016
    draft: Jan. 14, 2016
  9. Event-Plane Proposal-May. 2016
  10. SN0648 - January, 2016 (proposal updated May 2017), STAR Forward Calorimeter and Forward Tracking Systems beyond BES-II
  11. SN0644 - Nov. 29, 2016, Technical Design Report for the iTPC Upgrade
  12. SN0640-Oct. 19, 2015, Physics Opportunities with STAR in 2020+
  13. SN0639-Oct. 15, 2015, Letter of Interest: CBM TOF as STAR Endcap TOF for BES-II at RHIC
  14. SN0625-May. 19, 2015, RHIC Beam Use Request for runs 16 and 17
  15. SN0619-Feb. 18, 2015, A Proposal for STAR Inner TPC Sector Upgrade (iTPC)
  16. SN0617-Jan. 19, 2015, a case for run16 pp510 (supplementary material)
  17. e-Print: arXiv:1502.02730,
    The
    Hot QCD White Paper: Exploring the Phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC
  18. e-PrintarXiv:1501.06477,
    Exploring
    the properties of the phases of QCD matter - research opportunities and priorities for the next decade
  19. SN0606-Jun. 2, 2014, STAR Beam Use Request (BUR) for run-15 and run-16
  20. SN0605-Jun. 1, 2014, A polarized p+p and p+A program for the next years
  21. SN0598-Mar. 28, 2014, Studying the Phase Diagram of QCD Matter at RHIC
  22. SN0592-Oct. 1, 2013,  eSTARLetter of Intent
  23. 2014 Computing plan https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/private/psn0622
  24. SN0588-Aug. 21, 2013, EsNETHEP/NP Science Network Requirements 2013
  25. STAR Decadal Plan, December 2010, https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/starnotes/public/sn0645 

STAR  Collaboration:
decadal plan,
eSTAR Letter of Intent,
Beam Energy Scan Whitepaper,
A Polarized p+p and p+A program in the coming years 
eRHIC CDR
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1409/1409.1633.pdf 

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2015 Long Range Plan:

The charge letter can be found at the URL:
http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/20140424/NSAC_LRP_Charge_04242014_Hallman.pdf

Hot QCD Town Meeting Summary: 
https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/system/files/HotQCD_TM_Summary_final.pdf  
 


Town Meetings:
3. QCD:Hadron + Heavy Ion to meet together
QCD Heavy Ion Conveners: Paul Sorensen (Brookhaven National Laboratory) and Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)
QCD Hadron Conveners: Haiyan Gao (Duke University) and Craig Roberts (Argonne National Laboratory)
Meetings of interest:
EIC Users group meeting at Stonybrook, June 27-29, 2014
Users meeting of JLAB: at JLAB on June 1,2, 2014
Users meeting of RHIC: at BNL on June 17-20, 2014
High Performance Computing (Computation in Nuclear Physics), Washington DC, July 14-15, 2014

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Past and current upgrade proposals (2005 - 2010) are given in the proposal page (updated Feb 14, 2010)

The RHIC Mid-Term Strategic Plan Status as of February 2008 by Tom Ludlam

 

Summary Report of Workshop on Physics in the DAQ1000 Era (internal, August 16-17 2007)

RHIC II Science Cases (RHIC Future, December 2006)

STAR Decadal Plan (internal - September 2003)
 

Final Report from the Detector Upgrades Review, March 2006

Highlights of STAR Mid-Term Upgrades (2007)

Working Group HyperNews/Mailing List (internal)
 

STAR Upgrade Workshop at UCLA (December 15-16, 2011)

STAR Upgrade Workshop at BNL (June 11-12, 2012)

STAR R&D and upgrades for 2012 

Workshop Summary