Experiments with RHIC

Conference · Sat Dec 30 23:00:00 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): NONE; ISBN 1-56396-928-9; ISSN 0094-243X; CODEN APCPCS; ISBN 1-56396-928-9; ISSN 0094-243X; CODEN APCPCS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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GOLD IONS
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
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PROTON BEAMS
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RELATIVISTIC RANGE
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