Hadronic Observables in STAR
Rene Bellwied, Wayne State University
Talk given at CIPANP 2000, Quebec City, Canada, 5/24/00
This talk was a collaborative effort and I would like to thank the following STAR members and theoretical physicists for their simulation results:
K. Wilson (WSU, slide 10 and 12), Q.Li (LBNL, slide 11), V. Rykov (WSU, slide 11),
B.Lasiuk (Yale, slide 12), G.Kunde (Yale, slide 13), T.Ullrich (Yale, slide 14),
N.Xu (LBNL, slide 15), B.Llope (Rice, slides 15 and 20), M.Lamont (Birmingham, slide 16),
C.Lansdell (UT Austin, slide 17), D. Hardtke (LBNL, slide 18), T. Trainor (Washington, slide 19),
C. Pruneau+S. Gavin (WSU, slide 22), X.N. Wang (LBNL, slide 23), T. Cormier (WSU, slide 24),
T. LeCompte (Argonne, slide 24), J. Thomas (LBNL, slide 25), R. Longacre (BNL, slide 25)
Slide 1 - Layout of Talk
Slide 2 - CERN Announcement
Slide 3 - CERN Signatures (I)
Slide 4 - CERN Signatures (II)
Slide 5 - A Thermal QGP Scenario
Slide 6 - What is the difference between CERN and RHIC ?
Slide 7 - STAR Contributions
Slide 8 - The STAR Detector
Slide 9 - STAR Acceptance in Year-1 and Year-2+
Slide 10 - STAR Tracking
Slide 11 - Momentum and Energy Resolution in STAR
Slide 12 - Particle Identification Based on dE/dx
Slide 13 - PID Improvements (RICH/TOFp)
Slide 14 - Global Obsrevables in STAR
Slide 15 - Hadronic Spectra (Rapidity, Momentum)
Slide 16 - Strange and non-strange hadron ratios
Slide 17 - Multi-strange Baryons
Slide 18 - Two Particle Correlations
Slide 19 - Event By Event Physics
Slide 20 - Vector Meson Mass Modifications
Slide 21 - Low Transverse Momentum Physics
Slide 22 - Signal Correlations
Slide 23 - High Pt Probes (I)
Slide 24 - High Pt Probes (II)
Slide 25 - Parity Violation
Slide 26 - Conclusions and Outlook
Last Update: 5/12/00
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