Summer 2008 Journal Club

Dates
Speakers
Papers
Talk
July 7th
  • Ali Hanks
  • Jet quenching and the response of partonic matter (Introduction)

  • Phys. Rev. C77, 011901, 2008-01-07: Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of dihadron correlations in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s)= 200GeV
  • Two particle correlations at PHENIX

  • Ahanks_JC_070708.ppt
  • July 14th
  • Eric Vazquez
  • Elliptic Flow (Introduction)

  • PHENIX White Paper: Section 3.3 on Elliptic Flow
  • Measuring Flow in PHENIX

  • Eric_JC_071408.ppt
  • July 21th
  • Tatia Engelmore
  • Heavy Flavor Physics

  • hep-ph/0106202: Heavy Quark Colorimetry
  • nucl-ex/0509038 : Open Charm Production at RHIC
  • nucl-ex/0611018 : Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at s=200GeV
  • Heavy Quark Energy Loss

  • Tatia_Journal_Club_721.ppt
  • July 28th
  • Aaron Angerami
  • Jet Reconstruction Algorithms

  • CERN-TH-6775-93 : Longitudinally invariant kT clustering algorithms for hadron-hadron collisions. Catani; Nucl. Phys. B406; 187-224
  • hep-ex/0005012 : Run II Jet Physics: Cone Algorithm (CDF and D0)
  • jhep042008063 : The Anti-Kt jet clustering algorithm. Cacciari et al; JHEP.
  • Jet Reconstruction

  • jet_rec_7_28_08.pdf
  • Aug 4th
  • Brian Cole
  • Heavy Ion Physics at ATLAS

    TBA

  • Aug 11th
  • Yujiao Chen
  • TBA

    TBA



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