The relativistic heavy ion collider project at Brookhaven

Conference · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6029909

Reardon, P J

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility will provide collision energies of 100 GeV/nucleon per beam for heavy ions as massive as gold. RHIC will use the existing Brookhaven AGS and Tandem Van de Graaff as injector. The new accelerator facility, which is a nuclear physics initiative, will utilize the existing facilities of the partially completed CBA project. This report discusses the physics motivation for such a facility, the status of the machine design, R and D work and preparations for experiments at RHIC.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6029909
• Report Number(s): BNL-40007; CONF-870413-7; ON: DE87013300
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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