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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Experiments for RHIC
Author: Physics and Experiments at RHIC.
Author: Experiments for RHIC
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Languages : en
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A large and growing community of nuclear and high energy physicists is now embarked on a program of experiments with very high energy nuclear beams. The first round of these experiments will take place late in 1986, with fixed target experiments at the Brookhaven AGS and the CERN SPS. These programs, involving about 300 experimental physicists, will begin with relatively light ions (A approx. = 32 amu) to explore states of compressed nuclear matter in which high energy density is achieved in an environment of high baryon density. Within 2 to 3 years of this initial effort it will be possible with the Booster synchrotron to extend the mass range of AGS beams to cover essentially the entire periodic table. The next goal is then to reach much higher energies with colliding beams of heavy ions, creating thermodynamic conditions with near-zero baryon number which can be directly compared with QCD calculations, exploring the full panoply of phenomena described by Helmut Satz in his physics perspective.
RHIC Workshop
Author: P. E. HausteinPublisher:
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Category : Heavy ion accelerators
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The STAR Experiment at RHIC.
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Languages : en
Pages : 11
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STAR (Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) will be one of two large, sophisticated experiments ready to take data when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) comes on-line in 1999. The design of STAR, its construction and commissioning and the physics program using the detector are the responsibility of a collaboration of over 250 members from 30 institutions, world-wide. The overall approach of the STAR Collaboration to the physics challenge of studying collisions of highly relativistic nuclei is to focus on measurements of the properties of the many hadrons produced in the collisions. The STAR detector is optimized to detect and identify hadrons over a large solid angle so that individual events can be characterized, in detail, based on their hadronic content. The broad capabilities of the STAR detector will permit an examination of a wide variety of proposed signatures for the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), using the sample of events which, on an event-by-event basis, appear to come from collisions resulting in a large energy density over a nuclear volume. In order to achieve this goal, the STAR experiment is based on a solenoid geometry with tracking detectors using the time projection chamber approach and covering a large range of pseudo-rapidity so that individual tracks can be seen within the very high track density expected in central collisions at RHIC. STAR also uses particle identification by the dE/dx technique and by time-of-flight. Electromagnetic energy is detected in a large, solid-angle calorimeter. The construction of STAR, which will be located in the Wide Angle Hall at the 6 o'clock position at RHIC, formally began in early 1993.
Physics at RHIC
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL has produced two physics runs with Au+Au collisions since its startup in 2000 at energies sqrt(s) = 130 and 200 GeV/nucleon-pair. The main motivation for the RHIC program is to search for Quark Matter, which may be produced in these collisions. This talk will focus on RHIC results obtained with the STAR experiment, and where we are with the Quark Matter search.
RHIC workshop. Experiments for a relativistic heavy ion collider. April 15-19, 1985
Author: P.E. HausteinRHIC Workshop Experiments for a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Author: P.E. HausteinNuclear Physics
Author: Committee on Nuclear PhysicsPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309525071
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Dramatic progress has been made in all branches of physics since the National Research Council's 1986 decadal survey of the field. The Physics in a New Era series explores these advances and looks ahead to future goals. The series includes assessments of the major subfields and reports on several smaller subfields, and preparation has begun on an overview volume on the unity of physics, its relationships to other fields, and its contributions to national needs. Nuclear Physics is the latest volume of the series. The book describes current activity in understanding nuclear structure and symmetries, the behavior of matter at extreme densities, the role of nuclear physics in astrophysics and cosmology, and the instrumentation and facilities used by the field. It makes recommendations on the resources needed for experimental and theoretical advances in the coming decade.
Quark Matter
Author: Helmut SatzPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642835244
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
From the Editors Preface: "Quark Matter 1987 was attended by about 250 scientists, representing 75 research institutions around the world - the scientific community engaged in experimental and theoretical studies of high energy nuclear collisions. The central theme of the meeting was the possibility of achieving extreme energy densities in extended systems of strongly interacting matter - with the ultimate aim of creating in the laboratory a deconfined state of matter, a state in which quarks and gluons attain the active degrees of freedom. High energy accelerator beams and cosmic radiation projectiles provide the experimental tools for this endeavour; on the theoretical side, it is intimately connected to recent developments in the non-perturbative study of quantum chromodynamics. Phase transitions between hadronic matter and quark-gluon plasma are of basic interest also for our understanding of the dynamics of the early universe ... A very special feature of this Sixth Quark Matter Conference was the advent of the first experimental results from dedicated accelerator studies. These were conducted during 1986/87 at the AGS of Brookhaven National Laboratory ... and at the CERN SPS ... An intense discussion of these data formed the main activity of the meeting.