PHENIX Work and Philosophy Page

Photons/Electrons/Charm

• ``Electron Triggers: What I know, What I don't know; start of a discussion.''
  June 10, 1993. Available in hard copy PN85.
  Finally available more recently as ``Trigger Oldies but Goldies''
  Feb 11, 2000
• ``Concerns on PHENIX: Background; Albedo; Must measure the Background; electron trigger.''
  May 24, 1995
• ``Why we need pad3 for Electron ID (and therefore it isn't much help for photon id)''
  June 30, 1995
• ``Charm in PHENIX–A signal or a Background?''
  June 26, 1996 , Heavy Ion Physics 4, 139-148 (1996)
• ``Electron and Background Workshop: Status and Future Work ''
  November 11, 1996
• ``Centrality Measurements and other uses for Photons''
  Photon Workshop, Collaboration Meeting at Costa Mesa March 1997.
• ``Inclusive and Direct Photons by Conversions and Dalitz Decays''
  Electron workshop, Collaboration Meeting at Costa Mesa March 1997.
• ``Physics Plan for J/Psi: How much p-p and p+A data do we need?''
  Electron Workshop, June 24, 1997, Collaboration Meeting June 1997.
• ``Need for p-p and p+A comparison data for Photon Physics?''
  Photon Workshop, June 24, 1997, Collaboration Meeting June 1997.
• ``First Draft of What I need for conversion e+ e- analysis: A Computer program in ENGLISH''
  Electron Workshop, October, 1997, Collaboration Meeting October 1997.

Hard Scattering

• ``How to Discover the Quark Gluon Plasma by Single particle Semi-inclusive Measurements''
  July 9, 1997, RHIC'97 Workshop at BNL.
• ``Jets at RHIC---How to find the BDMPS effect at RHIC using inclusive high transverse momuntum hadrons and hadron pairs''
  June 4, 1998, 4th Workshop on QCD, Paris, France, June, 1998.
• ``Why Leading Particles Can Be used to Measure Hard-Scattering at RHIC-- Including `Why they never found jets at Fermilab (fixed target)' ''
  March 1, 1999, Hard Parton Physics in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, Riken/BNL Research Center, March 1-6, 1999.
• ``k_T Issues''
  March, April, 1999, Event Generators for RHIC Spin Physics, Riken/BNL Research Center, March 15-19, 1999.
• ``Hard Scattering Rates for Year-1 using XNWang's Cross Sections''
  June 9, 1999. Figures, Explanation. Extrapolation to 140 GeV.

Philosophy and Other Good Stuff

• ``How to Find Direct Gammas?, Do you need tracking? and other Philosophical points---via email''
  June 18, 1998, EC E-mail. Also see above. E-mail to Yves Schutz: Feb 17, 2000.
• ``Hadron Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Interactions and the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma''
  These are lectures which I prepared for the Winter School in Puri, Orissia, India in December 1989, which were published but not delivered. Chapters 1-7 are an overview which includes some details of experimental techniques and analysis such as: 6.2) Resolution Smearing of a Momentum Spectrum; 6.3) Shift in a spectrum due to the effects of binning; 7) Kinematics and Lorentz transformations including the parent/daughter suppression factor (7.5), lateral distance on a wall between 2 photons from pizero decay for fixed energy of the parent (7.4) or fixed energy of one photon (7.6); this chapter ends with some philosophy. Chapters 8-16 are a review of some topics in High Energy and Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics at that time. Unfortunately, to see the figures, you'll have to read the book, ``Quark Gluon Plasma'', Editors, B. Sinha, S. Pal and S. Raha, Research Reports in Physics, (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990).
• ``Why does everybody think that I don't like Monte Carlo?''
  MJT's Monte Carlo Page.

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Michael J. Tannenbaum 3/17/2000 - contact: mjt@bnl.gov