Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Group contributes to annual RHIC and AGS Users meeting
(L-R) Cameron Jensen, Rohan Gondi, Nathan Burns, Grace Burton, Henry Kaplan. Image courtesy of Helen Caines.
At the end of May, Helen Caines, Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics, and Laura Havener, assistant professor of physics took a cohort of their group to the RHIC and AGS Users Meeting at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Long Island, New York.
The four-day meeting celebrated twenty-five years of the operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and looked forward to the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The meeting was co-organized by Wright Lab postdoctoral associate Isaac Mooney.
Wright Lab research scientist Prakhar Garg presented the ongoing Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) activities related to particle identification, while Wright Lab graduate student Andrew Tamis reviewed the STAR experiment’s recent jet results. Wright Lab graduate students Ryan Hamilton and Iris Ponce also reported progress in their STAR related analyses.
Graduating seniors Henry Kaplan (a Howard L. Schultz awardee, which is presented to outstanding seniors in the physics department) and Grace Burton (leaving Yale to pursue physics Ph.D. program at Imperial College, UK) also had the opportunity to present their senior thesis studies at their first professional science meeting. Three of the undergraduate researchers who have joined the RHIC group for the summer also attended and had the opportunity to tour STAR (see photo, above).
Finally, the meeting ended with Ponce giving a plenary session flash talk after being awarded the meeting’s “Best Poster” prize.