RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May ALICE at LBNL Peter Jacobs RNC accomplishments in heavy ion physics Jet quenching at RHIC and LHC RNC in ALICE: Physics, EMCal project, PDSF Workforce projections
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May RNC accomplishments in heavy ion physics Development of the Time Projection Chamber for heavy ion physics: EOS → STAR Development and leadership of STAR at RHIC Discovery of collective flow at the Bevalac, CERN SPS, and RHIC Co-discovery and detailed elucidation of jet quenching at RHIC Development of a new generation of ultra-high precision vertex detectors
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May RNC accomplishments cont’d STAR publications with SPIRES TOPCITE 250+: Elliptic flow at RHIC K.H. Ackermann et al. (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 86:402 (2001). Jet GeV C. Adler et al. (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 89: (2002). Back-to-back hadron suppression C. Adler et al. (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 90: (2003). Jet 200 GeV J. Adams et al. (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 91: (2003). d+Au: J. Adams et al. (STAR), Phys. Rev. Lett. 91: (2003). STAR White Paper J. Adams et al. (STAR), Nucl.Phys. A757:102 (2005). All six papers have primary authors from the RNC RNC is among the world’s leading heavy ion research groups
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Jet quenching at RHIC Jet fragments (color-charged) Photons (color-neutral) STAR, Phys Rev Lett 91, p T assoc > 2 GeV cos( ) p T assoc > 0.15 GeV STAR, Phys Rev Lett 95,
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Jet quenching: the deeper we dig, the more we find… p T trigger >8 GeV/c Yield per trigger STAR, PRL 97, (2006) Jet quenching will be as central to the LHC heavy ion program…
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Jet quenching in ALICE Casalderrey-Solana and Wang arXiv: Consider jet quenching similar to DIS jet energy variation probes QGP at varying length scales…
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May EMCal kinematic reach Ratio of purple/red 175 GeV jets in ALICE acceptance Jet quenching Dashed line = no jet quenching ALICE+EMCal enables world-class jet quenching measurements
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May LBNL Personnel on ALICE RNC Senior Staff Scientists P. Jacobs H.-G. Ritter T. J. M. Symons RNC Staff Scientists: S. Klein G. Odyniec M. van Leeuwen (term) RNC Postdocs: J. Putschke LBNL Engineering Division (EMCal Project Funds): J. Rasson D. Peterson
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Physics Activities Project SupportSimulations and AnalysisTotal FTEDetailsFTEDetails Jacobs0.5Trigger, Project management, module installation, p+p and Pb+Pb runs 0.5Jet reconstruction, p+p analysis1 Klein0.1data taking0.1p+p analysis0.2 Odyniec0.5Calibrations, module installation, data taking 0.5Heavy quark jet simulations, p+p analysis 1 Putschke/ new postdoc 0.4Trigger simulations, algorithms, hardware 0.6Jet reconstruction algorithms (ALICE/STAR), p+p analysis 1 Ritter0.2Management, data taking0.2 Symons0.1Management0.1 Van Leeuwen/ new postdoc 0.4Calibrations, module installation, data taking 0.6Software infrastructure, direct photon studies, jet reco, p+p analysis 1 Total per category In addition: FTE for PDSF
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Physics Activities Project SupportSimulations and AnalysisTotal FTEDetailsFTEDetails Jacobs0.4Trigger, Project management, commissioning, data taking 0.6Jet reconstruction, data analysis 1 Klein0.1data taking0.1UPC analysis0.2 Odyniec0.4Calibrations, commissioning, data taking 0.6data analysis: heavy quark jets, correlations 1 Putschke/ new postdoc 0.4Trigger algorithms and hardware, commissioning, data taking 0.6data analysis: jets, heavy flavor production 1 Ritter0.2Management, data taking0.2 Symons0.1Management0.1 Van Leeuwen/ new postdoc 0.4Calibrations, commissioning, data taking 0.6Software infrastructure, data analysis: direct photons and pi0, jet reco, correlations 1 Total per category In addition: FTE for PDSF
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May RNC: P. Jacobs (Deputy Contract Project Manager) S. Klein G. Odyniec J. Putschke H. Ritter J. Symons M. van Leeuwen LBNL Engineering: J. Rason (Deputy Contract Project Manager) D. Peterson EMCal Project Participation LBNL responsibilities: Project management Mechanical engineering oversight Trigger Software and computing (PDSF) Physics leadership
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May PDSF PDSF at NERSC: cost effective platform for large scale NP/HEP experimental computing plays essential role in STAR RNC contributes 1.5 FTE PDSF in ALICE: PDSF Requirements for ALICE CPU added per year [MSi2K] Cumulative CPU [MSi2K] Disk added per year [PB] Cumulative Disk [PB] Annual HPSS volume [PB] Costs and implementation: see Ron Soltz’s talk NSD contributes FTE for ALICE
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Impact of ALICE participation on STAR LBNLFY 2008 Ph.D.RHIC ResearchRHIC UpgradesALICE Research Total Effort (FTEs) %37%23% Group Ph.Ds20.0 ALICE-USA Ph.Ds:7.0 LBNLFY 2010 Ph.D.RHIC ResearchRHIC UpgradesALICE Research Total Effort (FTEs) %62%23% Group Ph.Ds20.0 ALICE-USA Ph.Ds:7.0
RNC/LBNL ALICE-US Review Germantown, May Summary of RNC at STAR and ALICE ALICE: EMCal project provides unique opportunity for highly visible, high impact new program that is fully consistent with RNC physics accomplishments and interests targeted, limited effort focused on EMCal and its related physics STAR: RNC participation will evolve in next ~3 years: Expanded effort on STAR tracking upgrades Correspondingly reduced STAR analysis effort Current high p T group will migrate to ALICE by 2008 STAR jet physics and hard process analyses will be carried out by the existing “Soft Physics” group