Pre-Spin2008 RHIC Spin Meeting

Stony Brook University

October 3, 4, 2008

Room 301, Charles B. Wang Center at Stony Brook University



Local Oragnizers
Mei Bai (BNL), Sasha Bazilevsky(BNL), Socoro Delquaglio(Stonybrook), Werner Vogelsang(BNL),
Feng Yuan(LBL/RBRC) & Abhay Deshpande(Stonybrook/RBRC)
&
Experimental Contacts for the Program
  Christine Aidala(UMass), Kensuke Okada(RBRC), Ernst Sichtermann(LBL), Jim Sowinski(Indiana U.)

Sponsered by Stony Brook University Provost's Office & RIKEN BNL Research Center at BNL

Preliminary Agenda: Last Updated 9/28 12:00 Noon

Friday October 3,  Morning, RUN9 Accelerator & Experiments, Chair: Mei Bai (BNL) & Sasha Bazilevsky (BNL)

Arrive at 9:00AM-onwards at Room 301

 9:30-09:40
Welcome and orientation
Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook & RBRC)
9:40-11:05
Polarized RHIC in the past and in Run-9 (25+5 min)
Christoph Montag (BNL)

Polarized AGS in the past and in Run-9 (25+5 min)
Haixin Huang (BNL)

RHIC beam polarimetry in the past & in Run-9 (20+5 min)
Alexander Bazilevsky (BNL)
11:05-11:30
Break

11:30-12:30
Plans for 250 GeV/c polarized protons (20 min)
Mei Bai (BNL)

PHENIX Run plan and preparations (20 min) John Haggerty (BNL)

STAR Run plan and preparations (20 min) Bernd Surrow (MIT)

Friday, October 3, Afternoon, Physics with Tranvserse Spin & Delta-G, Chair: Les Bland(BNL) & Feng Yuan(LBL/RBRC)

2:00-3:30
Pi0 transverse spin asymmetry with STAR FPD at 200 GeV CM (20 min)
Jim Drachenberg (Texas A&M)

Pi0 transverse spin asymmetry with PHENIX MPC (20 min)
Mickey Chiu (BNL)

Sivers back-to-back asymmetry mesaurement PHENIX (20 min)
Feng Wei (Iowa State)

Heavy flovor A_N measurement PHENIX (20 min)
Ming Liu (LANL)

Transvers spin depenent forward particle correlations at 200 GeV (20 min)
Nicola Poljak (Zagreb)
3:40-4:00
break

4:00-4:30
Transverse Spin Theory: 3-g interaction and transverse spin asymmetries
Jianwei Qiu (Iowa State)
4:30-5:00
Transversity and Collins fragmentation functions: Towards a new global analysis
Alexei Prokudin (INFN, Torino)
5:00-6:20
Inclusive Pi0 and Eta A_LL measurements by PHENIX (20 min)
KenIchi Nakano (Tokyo I.T.)

Determination of DeltaG and its unceratinty PHENIX (20 min)
Swadhin Taneja (Stony Brook U.)

Constraints on DeltaG from A_LL of inclusive jets STAR (20 min)
Steve Trentalange (UCLA)

Recent results from pi0 from STAR (20 min)
Alan Hoffman (MIT)
7:00-
Dinner at a local restaurant: Curry Club Indian Restaurant
Charge for student: $15 ; Others: $25
Cost includes non-alocholic drinks.
(Contact Sasha Bazilevsky or me before Oct. 1)






Saturday, October 4, Morning Session, Physics with Longitudinal Spin, Chair: Bernd Surrow(MIT) & Werner Vogelsang(BNL)

9:00-10:40
Charged hadron/pion A_LL @ 62/200 GeV PHENIX (20 min)
Amaresh Datta (UMass)

Recent results on charged pion production at 200 GeV STAR (20 min)
Adam Kocoloski (MIT)

Direct photon production cross section and A_LL PHENIX (20 min)
Robert Bennett (Stony Brook U.)

Di-Jet production cross section and A_LL STAR (20 min)
Tai Sakuma (MIT)

Heavy flavors A_LL measurements at PHENIX (20 min)
Ming Liu (LANL)
10:40-11:00
break

11:00-1:00
A_LL at foward rapidities at 200 GeV STAR (20 min) Jim Sowinski (IU)

Global analysis of polarized p-p & DIS data (30 min) Marco Stratmann (Wurzburg/Regensburg)

Longitudinally Polarised Hadroproduction of Heavy Quarks (20 min) Johann Riedl (Regensburg)

k_T asymmetry in longitudinal p-p scattering PHENIX (20 min) Imran Younus (UNM)

Longitundinal spin transfer of Lambda and Anti-Lambda in polarized p-p collisions (20 min) Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)
 

Saturday, October 5, Afternoon SessionFuture Physics at RHIC, Chair: Yasuyuki Akiba (RIKEN)

2:00-3:20
PHENIX VTX tracker upgrade (20 min) Maki Kurosawa (RIKEN)

PHENIX Muon Trigger uprgade (20 min)
Tsutomu Mibe (Tskabua)

Future investigations of Flavor dependence of Sea Quark Helicities (20 min)
Jim Sowinski (IUCF)

PHENIX Nose Cone Calorimeter upgrade (20 min) David Kleinjan (UCR)
3:20-3:45
Coffee


Saturday, October 5, Afternoon SessionFuture Physics at RHIC: Focus: Drell-Yan measurements; Chair: Naohito Saito (KEK/J-PARC)

3:45-4:15
Drell Yan Mesurements with at RHIC: Physics feasibility & requirements
Les Bland (BNL)
4:15-4:30
Some thoughts on Drell Yan measurements
Yuji Goto (RIKEN)
4:30-5:00
Discussion

5:00
End of the meeting, See you at UVa !