Nuclear Physics Seminar

Recent progress of SVT/SSD calibration and the STAR upgrade program for direct charm/bottom measurements

Spiros Margetis (Kent State University)


The STAR experiment at RHIC uses a four layer central silicon detector (one layer of strips and three layers of silicon drift detectors) for secondary vertex reconstruction. Any attempt for a direct reconstruction of secondary charm (D0) vertices (ctau = 120 microns) puts stringent requirements on Alignment accuracy and drift velocity calibrations. We will report on recent work as well as on STAR' upgrade plans to future measurements.








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