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STAR Newsletter #94

July 2002
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Editor: Howard Matis

Contents

  1. Spokesman's Column
  2. STAR Operations
  3. STAR Council
  4. Detectors and Subsystems
  5. Period Coordinators Report
  6. Physics Working Groups (protected area)
  7. People: Comings and Goings
  8. Announcements and Notes
  9. Employment Opportunities

Spokesman's Column (Tim Hallman)

No contribution this month.

STAR Council (Jay Marx)

No contribution this month.

STAR Operations (Ralph Brown and Bill Christie)

No Contribution this month

Detectors and Subsystems

FTPC (from Volker Eckardt)

No Contribution this month.

Slow Controls (from Mike Cherney)

Work continues on the controls system for the barrel calorimeter. Planning continues for the PMD and endcap calorimeter. An evaluation of recent control system developments suggest that we will likely keep EPICS (using some of its newer expanded capabilities) for the STAR upgrade. Also, work continues on interfaces which do not require a Sun workstation or VxWorks.

EMC (from Jose Riso)

From June 10 - 21, nine more sets of clear fiber bundles have been connected and routed from modules 10, 11, 15, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45 and 46 (nine total for the period). We expect to resume the routing work to finish the 28 West remaining modules by early August - at the time the STAR detector will be moved from the WAH. This stage is complex as the TPC supports must be removed to route clear fiber bundles. The bundles are routed through the space shared with the magnet utilities path so that they require special bundles and procedures. At the production facility, work is in progress completing and testing the PMTs systems. These are scheduled to be installed in STAR starting the second week of August.

TPC (from Blair Stringfellow)

No contribution this month

Level 3 Trigger (from the commissioning contingent)

No contribution this month.

Endcap EMC (from Will Jacobs)

No Contribution this month

Photon Multiplicity Detector (Subhasis Chattopadhyay)

No Contribution this month

TOFp - (Bill Llope and Frank Geurts )

No Contribution this month

Period Coordinator Reports

Physics Working Groups - (See the protected area)

This section contains summaries of the status of the physics working groups. These articles are in a protected area for STAR collaboration members only. This link uses the standard STAR account and password for physics results. If you do not have this information, please contact your council representative.

Go to this month's articles

People

Announcements and Notes

Employment Opportunities

Postdoc (Creighton University)

Thee High Energy Nuclear Physics group at Creighton University seeks applicants for a postdoctoral Research Associate position, beginning immediately. Applicants should have a Ph.D. and an interest in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions and/or hardware controls systems. Successful candidates should want to work with undergraduate students on the STAR experiment. He/she would have the option of being based at BNL. Additional information about the department can be found at http://physicsweb.creighton.edu. Applicants should email a statement of their research interests, their CV and the names and email addresses of three references to

Prof. Michael Cherney
Physics Department
Creighton University
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178

Creighton University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Postdoc (Rice University)

The Particle Physics Group at Rice University is looking for an outstanding applicant for a position of postdoctoral Research Associate. The position is allocated to an NSF funded project to develop and test tools to integrate ROOT in the Computer Grid Project (See for example). The project is a collaboration of MIT and Rice University. The new tools will be tested within the context of physics simulations for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Detector at CERN and analysis of data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab. Our group is actively involved in the Heavy Ion Programs at LHC and RHIC. Candidates are required to have a Ph.D. in Physics or a related field. Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to: Pablo Yepes, MS 315, T.W. Bonner Lab, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005 or yepes@rice.edu. Rice University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and especially welcomes applications from underrepresented minorities.

Fellowship in Experimental High Energy Nuclear Physics (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Nuclear Science Division is seeking a scientist with outstanding promise and creative ability in the field of experimental high energy nuclear physics. The appointment will be as Divisional Fellow for a term of five years with the expectation of promotion to Senior Scientist. The successful candidate will have several years of experience beyond the Ph.D. in nuclear or particle physics and will be expected to assume a leadership role in the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions (RNC) Program at LBNL.

The RNC group has a key role in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The group currently has a strong physics program in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and intends to become a major player in spin physics. Candidates having an interest in spin physics at RHIC are encouraged to apply.

Applicants are requested to E-mail a curriculum vitae, list of publications, statement of research interests, and the names of at least five references, no later than October 1, 2002, to afnsemployment@lbl.gov and to hgritter@lbl.gov. Please reference job number AF/014946/code in your cover letter. Berkeley Lab is an EEO/AA employer.

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