1. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting Tuesday (Mar. 1) 12pm - Sun (Mar. 6) 8pm: 128 hours Data Taking time: 39.5 hours = ~84% Beam time with collisions (including short stores): 47.3 hours Angle Scan ZDC/sec in BRAHMS

2. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting Crossing-Angle Scan: (half store: Sun 10am – 1pm) Yellow Horizontal + (ZDC~15% increase) ZDC Background

3. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting Crossing Angle Scan (data taken at the maximum allowed angles) YellowBlue Horizontal +0.05 mrad0.37 mrad Horizontal -0.45 mrad0.7 mrad Vertical +0.39 mrad0.15 mrad Vertical -0.6 mrad0.65 mrad Blue Beam

4. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting

5. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting

6. Mar. 9 2005RHIC Planning Meeting BRAHMS Cu+Cu Status CuCu at 200 GeV Data Summary - ~1.75 nb -1 Cu+Cu 200 GeV recorded (Jan. 16 th - Mar. 8 th ) - 56M MRS 103M FFS Triggers collected - ~75% of the Goal Achieved - Data taken for the All angle/field settings planned Physics - Identified Charged hadron yields in 0< y <3.8 - High-pt Physics at y~1,2,3 - Crossing-Angle scan for SMD done 62 GeV - ZDC HV changed (+700V: same as AuAu 62 GeV settings) - Spectrometer Triggers modified - Identified Particle Yields in 0<y<3 - High-pt Physics at y~1