The PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Conference · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:645594

Morrison, D P ^[1]; Akiba, Y ^[2]; Alford, O ^[3]

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1. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
2. KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)
3. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); and others

The primary goals of the heavy-ion program of the PHENIX collaboration are the detection of the quark-gluon plasma and the subsequent characterization of its physical properties. To address these aims, PHENIX will pursue a wide range of high energy heavy-ion physics topics. The breadth of the physics program represents the expectation that it will require the synthesis of a number of measurements to investigate the physics of the quark-gluon plasma. The broad physics agenda of the collaboration is also reflected in the design of the PHENIX detector itself, which is capable of measuring hadrons, leptons and photons with excellent momentum and energy resolution. PHENIX has chosen to instrument a selective acceptance with multiple detector technologies to provide very discriminating particle identification abilities. Additionally, PHENIX will take advantage of RHIC`s capability to collide beams of polarized protons with a vigorous spin physics program, a subject covered in a separable contribution to these proceedings.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 645594
• Report Number(s): BNL--65385; ORNL/CP--97189; CONF-971231--; ON: DE98004988; BR: KB0202010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
66 PHYSICS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
HEAVY ION REACTIONS
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
QUARK MATTER
RADIATION DETECTORS