The 10th edition of the Hard and Electromagnetic Probes International Conference series was hosted as an online conference from June 1st until June 5th 2020 due the to coronavirus pendamic over the world. Everyone in the MIT Heavy Ion Group connected to the meeting and many of them presented the latest results for CMS and sPHENIX experiments in the meeting. We have given 5 parallel talks online. All students attened the online student lecture on May 31. The next day, in the afternoon of June 1, our almuni Chris McGinn gave a presentation on his work at MIT entitled “Measurement of Jet Nuclear Modification Factors with Large-R with the CMS Detector“. Next, Molly reoprted the CMS photon-jet correlations results “Study of in-medium momentum broadening with photon-jet momentum correlations in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the CMS experiment“.
On the next day, our PhD student Michael gave a parallel talk on the overview of sPHENIX heavy flavor program with the MAPS upgrade “Heavy Flavor Physics with the sPHENIX MAPS Vertex Tracker Upgrade“.
On June 3, our group presented two open heavy flavor parallel talks. Our PhD student Zhaozhong first reported the new CMS B mesons results and the studies of beauty in-medium hadronization with the CMS 2018 PbPb dataset. His talk is “Measurements of nuclear modification factors of Bs and B+ mesons in PbPb Collisions with the CMS Experiment“. After that, our group postdoc Jing gave a nice presentation the studies of X(3872) internal structure using the CMS 2018 PbPb dataset: “Evidence of X(3872) production in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV with CMS“.
Finally, on June 4, Kaya gave an excellent talk on the new and exciting Z-hadron correlation studies with the 2018 PbPb entitled: “Parton modification studies using EW-boson-tagged hadrons with pp and PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the CMS experiment“.
This was our first time to participate in online major international conferences. All speaks in our group did excellent jobs in giving the presentations and delivered the physics messages to the audiences. We hope the pandemic will soon be over so that we can present our nice results and meet other physicists in person in future conferences.