Discussion on Heavy Ion Capabilities of a future EIC Detector
Held on September 19, 2002 at BNL (Building 1005, 3rd floor, Seminar Room)
Physics Session (Chair: John Harris)
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction: John Harris & Abhay Deshpande
9:10 - 9:50 EIC Physics and Timelines - Abhay Deshpande
AA Physics beyond RHIC and detector requirements
9:50 - 10:20 High pT physics: Peter Jacobs
10:20 - 10:40 Onium physics : Thomas Ullrich
10:40 - 11:00 Photons : Dick Majka
EIC Session (Chair: Abhay Deshpande)
11:15 - 12:00 Toward an EIC Detector: Lessons from HERA - Bernd Surrow
12:00 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:30 EIC Ring Design, Present Status: Vadim Ptitsyn
2:30 - 3:00 Effect of additional beam species for EIC interaction region: (Discussion lead by) Thomas Roser
Detector Requirements for Future RHIC Detector (Chair: Thomas Ullrich)
3:00 - 3:30 Tracking & Magnet - Rene Bellwied & Nikolai Smirnov
3:30 - 4:00 Vertexing - Howard Weiman
4:00 - 4:15 Coffee
4:15 - 4:25 PID (TRD, Cherenkov, photons) - Gerd Kunde
4:25 - 4:35 EM + Hadronic Calorimetry - Edward Kistinev
4:35 - 4:45 Forward Detectors and Physics - Steve Manly and Mark Baker
Discussion Session (Chair:Rene Bellwied and Bernd Surrow)
5:00 - 6:30 Discussion
- Feasibility of a common EIC/RHIC Detector
- Interaction point design
- Staging
- Towards an EIC detector based on past ep/eA experiments
- Detailed discussion on common interests
- Identify topics for further studies/investigations
- Timelines and manpower for studies
- Potential Detector R&D
- Summary: Prepared by A. Deshpande & B. Surrow