RHIC At Creighton Nuclear Physics Research

The baseline STAR Hardware Controls System is a collaborative effort of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and four Academic Institutions, of which Creighton University is the largest contributor. The system was created using software which was developed at Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories for particle accelerator controls. The STAR experiment currently controls and monitors approximately 30,000 parameters (temperatures, voltages, etc.).

Undergraduate students' contributions to this project have been and continue to be significant. Students are involved in the development and implementation of EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Controls System) software.

Fr. Thomas McShane, Dr Michael Cherney, Jiro Fujita, and Dr. Yury Gorbunov are the faculty who work with STAR.