The PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Conference · Wed Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:10135301

Tonse, S R; Thomas, J H

Later this decade the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its goal will be to accelerate and collide Au beams at 100 GeV/c in an attempt to create a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The PHENIX detector aims to detect the QGP through its leptonic and hadronic signatures. We describe here its physics capabilities and the details of the apparatus designed to pick out rare leptonic signatures from among hadronic multiplicities of up to 1500 particles per unit of rapidity.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 10135301
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC--115918; CONF-9308181--3; ON: DE94008684
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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