Experiments with RHIC

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2000

OSTI ID:784490

Westfall, Gary D

Experiments with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will begin in December 1999. RHIC consists of two superconducting rings capable of accelerating and storing Au beams of 100 GeV/nucleon and proton beams of 250 GeV. Four experiments are being prepared for RHIC: STAR, PHENIX, PHOBOS, and BRAHMS. These detector systems are designed to search for signals of the quark gluon plasma in Au-Au collisions. A spin physics program using polarized protons will also be carried out at RHIC.

• Research Organization: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: None (US)
• OSTI ID: 784490
• Report Number(s): ISBN 1-56396-928-9; ISSN 0094-243X; CODEN APCPCS; ISBN 1-56396-928-9; ISSN 0094-243X; CODEN APCPCS; TRN: US0106092
• Resource Relation: Conference: Nuclear Physics at Storage Rings: Fourth International Conference: STORI99, Bloomington, IN (US), 09/12/1999--09/16/1999; Other Information: PBD: 31 Dec 2000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
HEAVY IONS
GOLD IONS
PROTON BEAMS
QUARK MATTER
SPIN
STORAGE RINGS
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
POLARIZED BEAMS
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
GOLD 197 TARGET
GOLD 197 REACTIONS
PROTON REACTIONS
GEV RANGE 100-1000
TEV RANGE