1. The UCLA Nuclear Physics Group
Huan Zhong Huang
黄焕中
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
Daya Bay Collaboration Meeting, June 9-10, 2006

2. Group Members Faculty: Chuck Whitten and Huan Zhong Huang
Research Staff: Stephan Trentalange and
Vahe Ghazikhanian
Post-Docs: Oleg Tsai, Gang Wang and Jingguo Ma
Graduate Students: Steve Guertin, Pricilla Kurnadi, David Staszak, Bertrand Biritz,
Dhevan Gangdharan, Wenqin Xu
Supported by: DOE Nuclear Physics

3. Physics Programs Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics –
QCD at high temperature and energy density
Searches for the Quark-Gluon Plasma
-- Heavy Quark (charm) production
-- Parton collectivity (elliptic flow)
-- Strange Baryon production (L,X,W)
Intermediate Energy Physics –
Gluon Spin content in the proton (DG)
Flavor decomposition of the quark spin structure
functions
-- Jet production asymmetry
-- Heavy Quark production
RHIC – STAR Experiment !

4. Hardware Experiences STAR Experiment: 1) Time-Projection Chamber –
Gating Grid and Pulser Calibration
2) Electromagnetic Calorimeter –
PMT Housing, HV and Low Voltage Control
3) EMC – Shower Max Detector
2.5m long gas chamber with pad read-out
from extruded Al
4) Time-of-Flight – HV and LV supply and control

5. UCLA STAR SMD Construction Facility

6. STAR EMC SMD Testing at UCLA

7. New in Neutrino Physics
The UCLA Nuclear Physics Area Plan:
1) Neutrino Physics Program Initiative
2) New Faculty Hiring from the Department
3) Seek funding from DOE NP for Neutrino Program
(0nbb decay and Daya Bay reactor n)
Our Immediate Plan for Daya Bay Experiment
Help muon veto detector construction
Help other projects if needed (PMT HV and Electronics)
Start simulation effort at UCLA