Last update: 9 January 2003, Hubert van Hecke
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On a related note: see Bills Phenix acronyms page
1990, it became clear that RHIC was going to be built, and that there were
going to be 2 or so big detectors on the ring. Seat-of-the-pants guesses
for the cost of each of these detectors were in the $100M ballpark. Over
the course of several months, various announcements were made about the
available funds, and I plotted those, along with some simple projections:
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of intent were due in the spring of 1991. There were 9 or so proposals for
major detectors, with room at RHIC for only 2. A decision would be made in
August 1991 announcing which detectors would be encouraged to move forward
to the proposal stage. What happened instead is that STAR was
accepted there and then, and the remaining parties, among them TALES,
SPARC, OASIS and DIMUON were forced to merge.
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grumbling merger ensued, and PHENIX emerged from the fray. Now it was time
to get a logo. Shoji called for logo proposals, and we went to work. PHENIX
of course is the bird that rises from the ashes, and the bird theme was
liberally explored...
birds, birds, somewhat serious
birds, birds, birds, not so semi-serious
this is the one that finally got chosen
turkey cartoon below shows that the budget crunch
had led to the amputation one of the arms of the dimuon detector.
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, help
was on the way! The folks interested in spin physics had their own sources
of money (oodles of yen), but the question was, were they going
to spend it, on
the PHENIX end or the STAR side?
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Los Alamos, one of the subsystems of PHENIX that we started work on was the
MVD (Multiplicity and Vertex Detector).
The MVD is supposed to be a lightweight as possible. We studied the mass problem with this full-size mockup of the device. In actual fact, the real thing is a lot lighter than this, and we didn't persue it any further.
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, we make it to the front page: Albuquerue Journal, 8 December
1995
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have a grand view of MVD integration into the scheme of things:
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the Santa Fe collaboration meeting, held in July '96, some of these front
pages were not shown:
| beam-beam counter |
| time-of-flight counter |
| rich counter |
| physics with two muon arms |
| physics with one muon arm |
| muon tracking station one |
| trigger issues |
| spin physics with muon arm south |
GEANT standard man and
woman visit the Major Facility Hall
Bigger version
Phenix be
ready in time?
the Engineering Run, the MVD will not be in its final location, as noted here
by Walt and Jan, since the
radiation environment so close to the beam pipe is not known and may be
dangerously erratic as the beam operators learn how to control the machine.
Instead, the MVD will
be on a stand on the floor in front of the Central Magnet, as shown here.
<--- big view ............ and closeup --->
names for
quarks and anti-quarks.
, the Other White Meat
Haring (1958-1990)
lived and worked in New York City and his pop-art images are
easily recognized.
In the Fall of 2002, P.D.Q. Schnelling, curator of the Haring estate, came across
some sketches that showed he must have taken an interest in our business, probably
via his acquaintance with students at Columbia.
| that's all, bye! |
