STAR Main Web Sites
Drupal via SSH tunnel & talks on Indico
New Material
November 2026 - Drupal is reachable only through an SSH tunnel, and STAR talks are now uploaded to Indico: instructions.
June 2026 - Storage guides: HPSS / tape and the Data Carousel for restoring data.
April 2025 - STAR moved to new Alma 9 nodes (starsub0x) instead of SL7 (rcas60xx). Check instruction
star.bnl.gov Mattermost Drupal computing Chatbot Run Page
Weekly meetings
Regular STAR Physics Working Groups meetings on Indico:
Mailing lists
starmail star-talks star-juniors starpapers starsoft
graph TD
HP[Hard Probes ]
LFSUPC[Light Flavor
Spectra and UPC]
Spin[Cold QCD
Spin]
Correlations[Correlations
and fluctuations]
FCV[Flow, Chirality
and Vorticity]
click HP "https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/arc/star-hp-l/" "Hard Probes weekly"
click LFSUPC "https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/info/star-lfsupc-l" "LFSUPC mail"
click Spin "https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/arc/star-spin-l" "Cold-QCD mail"
click FCV "https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/arc/star-fcv-l" "Flow Chirality and Vorticity mail"
click Correlations "https://lists.bnl.gov/sympa/arc/star-cf-l" "Correlations and Fluctuations mail"
Learn About STAR Detectors
Event Display
Interactive displays for visualization of STAR detectors in action. These tools offer zooming and dynamic viewing angles to help understand detector operations:
Detector Expert’s Presentations
Informative talks and videos from Junior Meetings, providing insights into specific detectors:
Time Projection Chamber (TPC) (Gene Van Buren, June 2020)
Event Plane Detector (EPD) (Mike Lisa, February 2020 youtube)
Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter and Barrel Shower Maximum Detector (BEMC) (Stephen Trentalange, September 2020 - pdf )
Time of Flight Detector (TOF) (Frank Geurts, March 2021)
NIM Papers - each subdetector paper
Deep dive into technical papers on STAR detectors:
Learn About STAR Data Analysis
DST tutorials
- Introduction to PicoDst (Grigory Nigmatkulov, 2019)
- Introduction to MuDst:
- A common-MuDst tutorial (Sergey Panitkin, 2003)
- Starting Data Analysis on STAR (Samantha Brovko, 2011)
Basic STAR analysis
- Basics of a STAR analysis + source (Isaac Upsal, 2019)
- My experience of data analysis at STAR (Rongrong Ma, 2018)
- Introduction to STAR software and makers 2015 + updated 2023 (Leszek Kosarzewski,2023)
STAR scheduler
- The STAR scheduler (Levente Hajdu, 2019)
- SUMS(aks STAR scheduler) and Condor Drupal page
- Manual
- STAR Scheduler tutorial (Levente Hajdu, Jerome Lauret, January 2022)
Starsim
- STAR Simulation Page (looks old but has some useful info)
- Drupal STAR Simulation Framework (looks unfinished but still useful)
Other
StRoot doxygen documentation - source code for all STAR classes and Makers
STAR paper codes are now in Gitea (one repo for all papers - use a sparse checkout, see the publication process)
CVS in STAR (legacy) https://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/tutorials/cvs web $CVSROOT https://www.star.bnl.gov/cgi-bin/protected/viewvc.cgi/cvsroot/offline/paper/
FileCatalog
get_file_list.plhttps://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/filecatalog/user-manual
Selected Junior Meetings on physics
STAR Juniors youtube channel
Juniors Days of recent collaboration meetings are on Indico; the talks below are on the Drupal archive.
- Relativistic hydrodynamics for heavy ion collisions (Iurii Karpenko, June 2020)
- Handling Systematic Errors (Roger Barlow, March 2021)
- STAR Embedding (Xianglei Zhu, March 2021)
- Correlations at the femtoscopic scale (Hanna Zbroszczyk, September 2021)
Uproot and Awkward Array tutorial (Jim Pivarski, September 2021)
- Jets at RHIC (Saehanseul Oh, February 2022)
- CME primer and lessons from Isobar Run (Evan Finch, February 2022)
- QCD Phase Structure at finite baryon density (Volodymyr Vovchenko, February 2022)
- STAR Forward Upgrade (Carl Gagliardi, February 2022)
- Simulations at STAR (Jason Webb, February 2023)
- Publishing your STAR result (Mike Lisa, February 2023)
- Neutron star mergers (Wenbin Lu, February 2023)
- Nucleon structure (Xiaoxuan Chu, February 2023)
Additional Resources
- STAR Theses — Collection of STAR theses with detailed detector insights.
- STAR Analysis Notes — Access technical notes and internal documents.
- Conference talks and proceedings on Indico (upload instructions); older abstracts / talks / posters / proceedings: Drupal archive
- Real Data Summary Production — Overview of data production summaries.
- BFC Production Options — Configurations for dst, git
- Disc Quota and Usage Status — monitoring GPFS
- GPC Information —
.xmlfile with all details on God-Parent Committees (GPC). - STAR Github
Trigger Streams for Data Production:
If you want to access luminosity then remove streams.html from web address, e.g.
https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/common/common2012/trigger2012/streams.html to
https://www.star.bnl.gov/protected/common/common2012/trigger2012/
and then search for lumi folder