Highlights from PHENIX - I

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008

OSTI ID:946100

Franz, A. ^[1]; Awes, Terry C ^[2]; Cianciolo, Vince ^[2]; Efremenko, Yuri ^[3]; Read, Jr, Kenneth F ^[2]; Silvermyr, David O ^[2]; Sorensen, Soren P ^[4]; Stankus, Paul W ^[2]; Young, Glenn R ^[2]

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1. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
2. ORNL
3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) & Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
4. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)

This contribution highlights recent results from the PHENIX Collaboration at RHIC. It covers global variables, flow and 2-particle correlations. A second contribution in this issue, by T.C.Awes, covers PHENIX results on heavy quarks, leptons and photons. PHENIX has collected a vast sample of data from p-p to Au-Au collisions at various energies. The data show that we have created a dense medium which affects the momenta and angular distributions of the produced particles. On the other hand it shows a strongly coupled flow which affects all produced particles, even heavy quarks. PHENIX has shown multiple new and more detailed results at this conference and will with its current and future detector subsystems continue to uncover the details of this 'perfect liquid'.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 946100
• Resource Relation: Conference: 20th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions - Quark Matter 2008, Jaipur, India, 20080204, 20080210
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION
LEPTONS
PHOTONS
QUARK MATTER
QUARKS