The IUCF STAR Group Page 
The IUCF STAR Group Page
A group from IUCF has joined the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). RHIC is being built to search for the quark-gluon plasma, a new state of matter predicted by quantum chromodynamics.
RHIC will also be able to accelerate polarized protons up to 250 GeV. Two counter rotating beams of protons intersect in the STAR detector. Our group's main interest is in studying the spin structure of the proton by looking at collisions of the two protons where the quarks and gluons in the protons interact violently. Such violent collisions can create high energy photons and jets of particles such as pions. The STAR Detector is designed to detect electrons, photons and jets of particles over a large solid angle. We intend to build an endcap electromagnetic calorimeter which will cover the crucial regions of solid angle needed to study the spin structure of the proton and in particular make the best measurement of the gluon's contribution to the proton's spin.
You can learn more about our project by reading our "Proposal to Construct an Endcap Electromagnetic Calorimeter for Spin Physics at STAR" reviewed at the 8-9 October 1998 meeting of the HENP program advisory committee at Brookhaven National Laboratory. A short summary is available in the STAR physics pages and in more graphical web pages.
You can learn more about the quark gluon plasma search at STAR by looking at the introduction to Star physics page or a recent web article for the general public from Lawrence Berkely Lab. See also an article in the March 1999 issue of Scientific American titled "A Little Big Bang" by Madhusree Mukerjee.
Click here to see publications by our group.
For documentation on our endcap electromagnetic calorimeter follow this link endcap construction.
An EEMC Mechanical and Optical Review for Procurement Readiness will be held at IUCF on July 27-28, 2000. Click here for details.
A draft of the EEMC Requirements Document has been prepared for the Procurement Readiness Review held at IUCF July 27-28, 2000. Click here for a postscript version of the draft.
