PHENIX: Beyond 15 years of discovery

Morrison, David; Nagle, James L.

doi:10.1093/ptep/ptu098

Title: PHENIX: Beyond 15 years of discovery

Abstract

The PHENIX experiment at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was designed to uncover properties of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) via rare penetrating probes. Over the past 15 years, the collaboration has delivered on its promised measurements, often with exciting results beyond those originally foreseen. That the QGP behaves as a nearly perfect fluid and that non-photonic electrons are substantially suppressed has led to the use of heavy quarks as probes of the medium. The PHENIX silicon vertex detectors are opening a new arena for QGP studies, and the MPC-EX, a novel forward calorimeter with silicon readout, accesses low-x physics via direct photons with unprecedented precision. PHENIX has proposed sPHENIX, a major upgrade using the recently acquired BaBar solenoid and full calorimetric coverage and high rate capabilities. sPHENIX will reconstruct jets and extend observables to higher transverse momentum, where comparisons to results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) heavy-ion program will provide the most insightful. Following the RHIC program, the nuclear physics community has identified an electron ion collider (EIC) as crucial to the next generation of QCD investigations. The BaBar magnet and sPHENIX calorimetry will be an excellent foundation for a new collaborative pursuit of discovery.

Authors:

Morrison, David ^[1]; Nagle, James L. ^[2]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

Contributing Org.:: PHENIX collaboration

OSTI Identifier:: 1191177

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886; FG02-00ER41152

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-3911

Publisher:: Physical Society of Japan

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS

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  title        = {PHENIX: Beyond 15 years of discovery},

  author       = {Morrison, David and Nagle, James L.},

  abstractNote = {The PHENIX experiment at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was designed to uncover properties of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) via rare penetrating probes. Over the past 15 years, the collaboration has delivered on its promised measurements, often with exciting results beyond those originally foreseen. That the QGP behaves as a nearly perfect fluid and that non-photonic electrons are substantially suppressed has led to the use of heavy quarks as probes of the medium. The PHENIX silicon vertex detectors are opening a new arena for QGP studies, and the MPC-EX, a novel forward calorimeter with silicon readout, accesses low-x physics via direct photons with unprecedented precision. PHENIX has proposed sPHENIX, a major upgrade using the recently acquired BaBar solenoid and full calorimetric coverage and high rate capabilities. sPHENIX will reconstruct jets and extend observables to higher transverse momentum, where comparisons to results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) heavy-ion program will provide the most insightful. Following the RHIC program, the nuclear physics community has identified an electron ion collider (EIC) as crucial to the next generation of QCD investigations. The BaBar magnet and sPHENIX calorimetry will be an excellent foundation for a new collaborative pursuit of discovery.},

  doi          = {10.1093/ptep/ptu098},

  journal      = {Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 2015,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015},

  month        = {Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2015}

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Citation Formats

The axial field spectrometer at the CERN ISR journal, May 1982

PHENIX detector overview journal, March 2003

Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration journal, August 2005

Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in A u + A u Collisions at s N N = 200 G e V journal, October 2003

Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central A u + A u Collisions at s NN = 130 GeV journal, December 2001

Measurement of Single Electrons and Implications for Charm Production in A u + A u Collisions at s NN = 130 GeV journal, April 2002

Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au+Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV journal, June 2008

Does the charm flow at RHIC? journal, March 2003

Heavy-quark production in p + p and energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in Au + Au collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal, October 2011

Heavy Flavor Results from STAR journal, May 2013

Suppression of high transverse momentum D mesons in central Pb-Pb collisions at $ \sqrt{{{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}}}=2.76\;\mathrm{TeV} $ journal, September 2012

J / ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Au + Au collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal, November 2011

J / ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Au + Au collisions at s N N = 39 and 62.4 GeV journal, December 2012

Nuclear Modification of ψ ′ , χ c , and J / ψ Production in d + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal, November 2013

Absence of Suppression in Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in s N N = 200 G e V d + A u Collisions journal, August 2003

Cold-Nuclear-Matter Effects on Heavy-Quark Production in d + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal, December 2012

Observation of long-range, near-side angular correlations in pPb collisions at the LHC journal, January 2013

The ratio of the nucleon structure functions F2N for iron and deuterium journal, March 1983

Suppression of Back-to-Back Hadron Pairs at Forward Rapidity in d + Au Collisions at s N N = 200 GeV journal, October 2011

Single spin asymmetry scaling in the forward rapidity region at RHIC journal, August 2011

EPS09 — A new generation of NLO and LO nuclear parton distribution functions journal, April 2009

Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics journal, March 2005

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The axial field spectrometer at the CERN ISR
journal, May 1982

PHENIX detector overview
journal, March 2003

Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration
journal, August 2005

Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 G e V$
journal, October 2003

Suppression of Hadrons with Large Transverse Momentum in Central $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$
journal, December 2001

Measurement of Single Electrons and Implications for Charm Production in $A u + A u$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV$
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Quantitative constraints on the transport properties of hot partonic matter from semi-inclusive single high transverse momentum pion suppression in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV
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$J / ψ$ suppression at forward rapidity in Au $+$ Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200$ GeV
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$J / ψ$ suppression at forward rapidity in Au $+$ Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 39$ and 62.4 GeV
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Nuclear Modification of $ψ^{'}$ , $χ_{c}$ , and $J / ψ$ Production in $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$
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journal, August 2003

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The ratio of the nucleon structure functions F2N for iron and deuterium
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Suppression of Back-to-Back Hadron Pairs at Forward Rapidity in $d + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$
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