The next decade of physics with PHENIX

Journal Article · Thu Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124129· OSTI ID:1043343

Sickles, A

The first decade of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) physics and the first heavy ion running at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have produced a wealth of data and discoveries. It is timely to now evaluate what has been learned and ask what compelling new questions have been raised. In this talk, several key unanswered questions about the properties of the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and the distribution of partons inside nucleons and nuclei will be discussed along with how they can be addressed experimentally. The PHENIX Collaboration has developed a plan for upgrading the experiment in order to address these new questions. The current status of these plans will be presented.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE SC OFFICE OF SCIENCE (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 1043343
• Report Number(s): BNL-96567-2011-JA; JPGPED; R&D Project: PO 003; KB0201021; TRN: US1203101
• Journal Information: Journal of Physics. G, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Vol. 38, Issue 12; ISSN 0954-3899
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
DISTRIBUTION
HADRONS
HEAVY IONS
NUCLEI
NUCLEONS
PHYSICS
QUARK MATTER
ION COLLISIONS
relativistic heavy ion collider