FROM THE ISR TO RHIC - MEASUREMENTS OF HARD-SCATTERING AND JETS USING INCLUSIVE SINGLE PARTICLE PRODUCTION AND 2-PARTICLE CORRELATIONS.
Hard scattering in p-p collisions, discovered at the CERN ISR in 1972 by the method of leading particles, proved that the partons of Deeply Inelastic Scattering strongly interacted with each other. Further ISR measurements utilizing inclusive single or pairs of hadrons established that high p{sub T} particles are produced from states with two roughly back-to-back jets which are the result of scattering of constituents of the nucleons as described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), which was developed during the course of these measurements. These techniques, which are the only practical method to study hard-scattering and jet phenomena in Au+Au central collisions at RHIC energies, are reviewed, as an introduction to present RHIC measurements.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE/SC
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 15020026
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-74890-2005-CP; R&D Project: 08845; KB0202012; TRN: US0504283
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: CORRELATIONS AND FLUCTUATIONS IN RELATIVISTIC NUCLEAR COLLISIONS; MIT, CAMBRIDGE, MA; 20050421 through 20050423
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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