Experimental Studies of Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC

Journal Article · Wed May 12 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3442590· OSTI ID:21362012

Esumi, ShinIchi ^[1]

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1. Inst. of Physics, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tenno-dai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 (Japan)

A new state of matter, Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is supposed to exist under extreme temperature and/or density conditions just as a beginning of this early universe after the Big Bang. High energy nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has been used to form the QGP and to study the properties of QGP. The recent progress on the experimental research of QGP at RHIC experiments and the understanding of the properties are discussed. Major discoveries at RHIC experiments are very strong energy loss of high energy partons in central Au+Au collisions and very large elliptic and collective expansion given by the initial almond geometry in non-central Au+Au collisions. Those two finding and related physics explanations as well as future plans are presented.

• OSTI ID: 21362012
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1235; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
ACCELERATORS
BARYONS
BEAMS
BNL
BOSONS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
COLLIDING BEAMS
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENERGY LOSSES
FERMIONS
GOLD 197 BEAMS
GOLD 197 REACTIONS
GOLD 197 TARGET
HADRONS
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
ION BEAMS
LOSSES
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MATTER
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PHOTONS
QUARK MATTER
STORAGE RINGS
TARGETS
UNIVERSE
US AEC
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS