TREX justification

Purpose:

• Give a presentation in one of the most impactful conferences in the field of heavy-ion collisions
• Showcase new physics results from the laboratory
• Strengthen our position within the ALICE collaboration and CERN
• Expand my professional network (as an early-career scientist this is of uttermost importance, however my ability to do so has been impacted by Covid measures)
• Learn about cutting-edge research being done elsewhere that can be translated into novel future measurements.

Benefit:

• Showcasing new physics results from analyses led by LBNL physicists specifically and the USA physics community in general, to further establish a strong USA presence in the international physics community.
• Getting the international physics community interested and involved in the research done at LBNL which can attract future graduate students and postdocs to the laboratory.
• Developing professional relationships with theorists who can provide insights and theory predictions to be benchmarked with our measurement.
• Increase the visibility of our measurements at the conference level, which can correlate with increased citations in future LBNL publications.
• Gather comments that can influence and guide this and future LBNL studies.