Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2009 APS April Meeting
Volume 54, Number 4
Saturday–Tuesday, May 2–5, 2009; Denver, Colorado
Session T3: DNP Prize and Award Session II |
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: William Zajc, Columbia University Room: Plaza E |
Monday, May 4, 2009 3:30PM - 4:06PM |
T3.00001: George E. Valley Jr. Prize Talk: Discoveries in Nuclear Collisions and the Phases Quark Gluon Matter Invited Speaker: The phase diagram of QCD matter contains many novel states beyond hadronic matter. By colliding heavy nuclei at ultra-relativistic energies, new phases of QCD matter can be created and studied in the laboratory. In this talk, I discuss the QCD phase diagram, recent discoveries at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), analogies with the early universe, and future programs to locate other landmarks on the QCD phase diagram. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, May 4, 2009 4:06PM - 4:42PM |
T3.00002: Maria Goeppert Mayer Award Talk: High Transverse Momentum Probes at RHIC Invited Speaker: The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) has been providing collisions of Au ions at ultra-relativistic energies since 2000. Nuclear physicists from around the world have been studying the matter created in these collisions. I will discuss the relevance of high transverse momentum particles as probes of this matter and what we have learned about the properties of the so-called ``Quark Gluon Plasma.'' I will also discuss current efforts to refine our sensitivity to the properties of this matter and present recent results from such efforts. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, May 4, 2009 4:42PM - 5:18PM |
T3.00003: New Results from Spin Physics at RHIC Invited Speaker: The sign and magnitude of the gluon spin contribution ($\Delta{G}$) to the spin of the proton has been a topic of intense interest and speculation since inclusive deep inelastic scattering experiments found the total quark spin contribution to be surprisingly small. Starting in 2002, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Lab has provided access to longitudinally and transversely polarized proton collisions. Both PHENIX and STAR, the two largest collaborations at RHIC, have used this data to complete a series of inclusive hadron and jet double spin asymmetry ($A_{LL}$) measurements. The mid-rapidity $\pi^0$ and jet results, now included in a global analysis of existing world data, are shown to provide significant constraints on $\Delta{G}$ within their range of kinematic sensitivity. Recent inclusive pion and jet $A_{LL}$ measurements will be presented. Plans to measure $A_{LL}$ in correlation channels, for example di-jets and photon-jets, and parity violating asymmetries for identified $W^{+/-}$ in future longitudinal proton runs will be discussed. In addition to a successful $\Delta{G}$ program, the RHIC-Spin community is actively contributing to the new and rapidly expanding frontier within nucleon structure studies of transverse spin measurements. Quantum Chromodynamics predicts an extremely small ($\propto\frac{m_q}{\sqrt{s}}$) spin asymmetry for leading hadron production in the reaction $p^\uparrow{p}\rightarrow{h}+X$. Contrary to expectations, transverse single-spin asymmetries (SSA) of up to $30\%$ were discovered in forward particle production more than three decades ago, and surprisingly, asymmetries of the same magnitude have been found to persist at current RHIC center-of-mass energies. The most recent forward $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ SSA from STAR and PHENIX, as well as charged hadron measurements from the BRAHMS collaboration, will be discussed and compared with theoretical predictions. [Preview Abstract] |
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