Recent Results from Phobos

Journal Article · Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2710611· OSTI ID:21054847

Garcia, Edmundo; Betts, R R; Garcia, E; Halliwell, C; Hofman, D J; Hollis, R S; Iordanova, A; Sagerer, J; Smith, C E ^[1]; Back, B B ^[2]; Baker, M D; Barton, D S; Carroll, A; Chai, Z; George, N; Hauer, M; Holzman, B; Pak, R; Seals, H; Sedykh, I ^[3]

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1. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7059 (United States)
2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439-4843 (United States)
3. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000 (United States)

The PHOBOS detector is one of four heavy ion experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In this paper we will review some of the results of PHOBOS from the data collected in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies up to 200 GeV. Evidence is found of the formation of a very high energy density and highly interactive system, which can not be described in terms of hadrons, and has a relatively low baryon density. There is evidence that the system formed is thermalized to a certain degree. Scaling with the number of participants and extended longitudinal scaling behavior are also observed in distributions of produced charged particles.

• OSTI ID: 21054847
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 884, Issue 1; Conference: 6. Latin American symposium on nuclear physics and applications, Iguazu (Argentina), 3-7 Oct 2005; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2710611; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS
BROOKHAVEN RHIC
CENTER-OF-MASS SYSTEM
DENSITY
DEUTERON REACTIONS
DISTRIBUTION
ENERGY DENSITY
GEV RANGE
GOLD 197 REACTIONS
GOLD 197 TARGET
MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS
MULTIPLE PRODUCTION
NUCLEONS
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PROTON REACTIONS
PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS
REVIEWS
SCALING LAWS