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QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) ANALYSIS IN √(s_NN )=54 GEV AU+AU COLLISIONS
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Alshammri, Albandry
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Year and Degree
2018, MS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Physics.
Abstract
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, predicts that at extreme conditions of high temperature and/or density, quarks and gluons are no longer confined within individual hadrons. This new, deconfined state of quarks and gluons is called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The STAR experiment at RHIC facility of Brookhaven National Laboratory is designed for the discovery and study of QGP. One aspect of this program, the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at RHIC, searches for a first-order phase transition and a critical point in the phase diagram of nuclear matter. A high priority in this effort is to study Au+Au collisions over as wide a range of beam energies as possible. A new series of BES runs will begin in 2019 with several detector upgrades and greatly improved data rates (beam luminosity). A recent beam energy for Au+Au collisions that is been explored for the first time is 54 GeV, and this dataset is the analysis focus of this thesis. We focus on the Quality Assurance aspects of the √(s_NN)=54 GeV Au+Au data set. We performed an overall but also detailed quality check (QA) of the data sample. In this work various physics and detector quantities are checked on a run-by-run basis. Under normal conditions, the average behavior of these quantities should be about the same for identical trigger selection criteria, i.e. large deviations will signal a `bad’ run, something that needs to be excluded from the final sample for physics analysis. At the same time, this process allows for a familiarization with the STAR analysis environment and infrastructure.
Committee
Spyridon Margetis (Advisor)
Declan Keane (Committee Member)
Bjorn Lussem (Committee Member)
Pages
36 p.
Subject Headings
Nuclear Physics
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Physics
Keywords
nuclear, nuclear physics, heavy ions, heavy ion physics, nuclear collisions, rhic, bnl
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Alshammri, A. (2018).
QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) ANALYSIS IN √(s_NN )=54 GEV AU+AU COLLISIONS
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent154332321560662
APA Style (7th edition)
Alshammri, Albandry.
QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) ANALYSIS IN √(s_NN )=54 GEV AU+AU COLLISIONS.
2018. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent154332321560662.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Alshammri, Albandry. "QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) ANALYSIS IN √(s_NN )=54 GEV AU+AU COLLISIONS." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent154332321560662
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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