Welcome everybody to the workshop Some small announcements

Welcome everybody to the workshop Some small announcements: - please register your computer before you logon to CORUS for a long time - please send your talks before your presentation to elke@bnl. gov - lunch every day: 12: 00 pm - Tuesday 18: 30 Workshop reception 1

New Document: basis for this workshop submitted to DOE soon on the ar. Xiv https: //www. phenix. bnl. gov/WWW/ publish/elke/RHIC. Cold. QCD. Plan/R HIC. Cold. QCD. Plan. 013016. pdf Important Question: Did we miss important unique measurements to RHIC in pp & p. A Did we miss important unique measurements at RHIC critical to harvest all physics at an EIC 2

schedule uncertainty CURRENT RHIC RUN PLAN 3 Years Beam Species and Energies 2014 Au+Au at 15 Ge. V Au+Au at 200 Ge. V 3 He+Au at 200 Ge. V Heavy flavor flow, energy loss, thermalization, etc. Quarkonium studies QCD critical point search Electron lenses 56 MHz SRF STAR HFT STAR MTD 2015 -16 p⇡+p⇡ at 200 Ge. V p⇡+Au, p⇡+Al at 200 Ge. V High statistics Au+Au at 62 Ge. V ? Extract η/s(T) + constrain initial quantum fluctuations Complete heavy flavor studies Sphaleron tests Parton saturation tests PHENIX MPC-EX STAR FMS preshower Roman Pots Coherent e-cooling test 2017 p⇡+p⇡ at 510 Ge. V Transverse spin physics Sign change in Sivers function 2018 No Run 2019 -20 Au+Au at 5 -20 Ge. V (BES-2) 2021 No Run 2022 -23 Au+Au at 200 Ge. V p⇡+p⇡, p⇡+Au at 200 Ge. V ≥ 2024 ? No Runs Science Goals New Systems Commissioned Low energy e-cooling install. STAR i. TPC upgrade Search for QCD critical point and onset Low energy e-cooling of deconfinement s. PHENIX installation Jet, di-jet, γ-jet probes of parton transport and energy loss mechanism Color screening for different quarkonia Forward spin & initial state physics s. PHENIX Forward upgrades ? Transition to e. RHIC