Jens A. Berger (BNL) STAR Experiment Level-3 Trigger group Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Physics Department Building 510A Upton, New York 11973 USA phone: ++1 631 344 8336 fax: ++1 631 344 4206 Home Institution: Jens A. Berger (IKF) Institut Kernphysik Frankfurt (IKF) High Energy Nuclear Physics Group August-Euler-Str. 06 D-60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany phone: +49 69 798 24254 fax: +49 69 798 24212

Relativistic heavy Ion Physics:

• The STAR Level-3 Trigger System
• Identification of high momentum particles in the STAR-RICH detector
• Particle ratios from 200 GeV Au+Au & p+p collisions @ STAR
• Pictures of the Level-3 Event Display
• First Level-3 Results from d-Au Collisions

Publications:

• Anti-Proton to Proton Ratio in Au+Au Collisions at STAR, PhD Thesis.
  Submitted to the physics department of J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany on Nov. 4th 2003.
  Defended April 5th 2004. [ps] | [pdf]
• New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions (PASI), Campos Do Jordao, SP, Brasil, January 07-18, 2002
  "Critical review of Quark Gluon Plasma Signatures" published in
  "New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions" edited by H.-T. Elze et al. 2002
  American Institute of Physics ISBN 0-7354-0086-6 [ps] | [pdf]. Talk [pdf] by Horst Stoecker.
• The STAR Level-3 Trigger System, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A499:778-791,2003 [ps] | [pdf]
• A Coming-Out Party for a Particle Collider, The New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 2001.[Article]
• TPC Data Compression, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A489:406-421,2002 [ps] | [pdf]
• The Proposed Level-3 Trigger for STAR, IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.47:358-361, 2000. Abstract [txt] | Paper [ps] | [pdf]
  Talk presented at REALTIME 99, Santa Fe, NM USA, June 14-18, 1999. by J. Berger. [tar.gz]
• The STAR Level-3 Trigger System, Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A453:397-404,2000 [ps] | [pdf]
  Talk presented at INSTR 99, Hamamatsu, Japan, 11/15-19/99, by S. Lange. Abstract [ps] | [pdf] | Talk [ps] | [pdf]
• STAR Collaboration Journal Publications
• Messung von Lepton-Paaren aus Meson-Zerfaellen in den Hadronexperimenten Na49 und STAR,
  Diplomarbeit (in German), Mai 01, 1998. [ps] | [pdf]

Talks:

• Anti-Proton to Proton Ratio in Au+Au Collisions at STAR,
  Phd thesis defense, Institut Kernphysik Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany April 5th 2004.
  Abstract (German) | Talk (German) [pdf]
• The STAR Level-3 Trigger System,
  Institute Seminar at IReS - Universite L.Pasteur Strasbourg,
  Strasbourg, France, July 5, 2002. Abstract | Talk [ps] | [pdf] | [jpeg] | [slides]
• Mid-rapidity Anti-proton over Proton Ratio from Au+Au Collisions at 200 GeV,
  Heavy Ion Tea Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
  Berkeley, CA USA, October 23, 2001. Abstract | Talk [ps] | [pdf] | [gif] | [slides]
• The Level-3 Trigger System at STAR,
  Annual Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics,
  Williamsburg, VA USA, October 4 - 7, 2000. [ps] | [pdf] | [jpeg] | [slides]
• The proposed Level-3 Trigger System for STAR,
  REALTIME 99, Santa Fe, NM USA, June 14-18, 1999. [tar.gz] | [jpeg] | [slides]
• Selektion seltener Ereignisse in Experimenten der Schwerionenphysik, (In German)
  Institutseminar des Institut Kernphysik Frankfurt, Germany, 1997. [ps] | [pdf] | [jpeg] | [slides]
• Datenreduktion der Clusterdaten von Spurendriftkammern, (In German)
  Frühjahrstagung der DPG, Göttingen, Germany, 1997. [ps] | [pdf] | [jpeg] | [slides]

Vintage Vehicles

74' HONDA cb750four 67' BUICK Riviera

Projects:

• The STAR Level-3 Trigger System
• STAR L3 Online 3D Event Display
• Laboratory for Applied Physics
  
  

Tools: