Flow Measurements in BRAHMS (Re: BNL workshop 6-8 March)

From: J.H. Lee (jhlee@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 11:48:50 EST

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      Hi, Ian,
    
      As we all know, our current configuration is not suitable
      for that.  We only have 6 segmentations in phi, and
      they are not event fully covered.  Only 2 rows of Tile,
      and no row in Si have 2pi coverage in phi.  The 2 rows
      in Tile are sitting eta ~ 1.5-2, where v2 is significantly
      smaller that values at y=0.  If we are not going to get
      more Au+Au data, we probably can try very hard to get
      some information out of what we had, but the resolution
      and systematic error are going to be pretty miserable.
    
      I still believe that the better way to measure it at BRAHMS is
      either reconfigure (rotate) silicon
      (high segmentation in eta -> high segmentation in phi)
      or make a new detector for the next Au+Au run.
      We are still the only experiment which can measure particle
      dependent flow in y=0 to 3. What we should do is measure
      reaction plane using silicon or/and new flow detector, and
      look at particle yields as a function of (rapidity, phi, centrality).
      I think a good candidate for a new/additional flow detector would
      be a reasonably well-segmented (>16 ) in phi  pizza-shaped
      scintillators covering  ~1-2 units of pseudo-rapidity around
      beam pipe.
    
      JH
    
    
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: "Ian Bearden" <bearden@nbi.dk>
      To: <brahms-l@bnl.gov>
      Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:45 AM
      Subject: Re: BNL workshop 6-8 March
    
    
      > And another thing....
      >
      > Can we get the event plane from the Si+Tiles?  That would be a good
      > thing, I think.  Who is/has looked into this?
      > Cheers,
      > Ian
      > p.s. Bjxrn, the appropriate response to such theorists is to say that
      > you KNOW they can come up with a fully microscopic model of
      > relativistic heavy ion collisions, so could they just please go do it!
      > On torsdag, mar 6, 2003, at 17:31 Europe/Copenhagen, Bjorn H Samset
      > wrote:
      >
      > >
      > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Flemming Videbaek wrote:
      > >
      > >> Dear Collegue
      > >>
      > >> Attache is the ref to the agena for the workshop the next comign days
      > >> at
      > >> BNL. Bjoern Samset is speaking for Brahms tomorrow morning at 9.20
      > >>
      > >> See the web ref for the program in general
      > >> Flemming
      > >>
      > >
      > > Hello all. The presentation seemed to go well, and judging by the
      > > number
      > > of questions both during and after the talk people were paying good
      > > attention to what we showed. The main questions and comments were about
      > > our identified hadron spectra and the mt fit we use - some were
      > > sceptical
      > > about our ratios because they did not trust our spectra at the low and
      > > high ends of the fit range. Also, we got told by several theorists that
      > > they KNOW we can do elliptic flow with Si+Tiles, so would we please
      > > just
      > > go and to the analysis? ;-)
      > >
      > > The presentation can be found on the BRAHMS presentations page.
      > >
      > > Ping :-)
      > >
      > > --
      > > Bjorn H. Samset                           Phone: 22856465/92051998
      > > PhD student, heavy ion physics            Adr:   Schouterrassen 6
      > > Inst. of Physics, University of Oslo             0573 Oslo
      > >                               \|/
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      > >                               /|\
      > >
      > >
      >
    


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