RHIC and Quark Matter: a proposed heavy ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6191838

Ludlam, T W

For some time there had been strong interest at Brookhaven in exploiting the existence of the Colliding Beam Accelerator, CBA (nee ISABELLE), for the generation of heavy ion collisions at very high energies. Now the opportunity arose to consider the design of a dedicated heavy ion collider which could take advantage of the work already invested in the CBA project. In its report the Working Group recommended a top energy of at least 50 + 50 GeV/amu, emphasizing the need to cover a continuous range of energies extending as low 5 + 5 GeV/amu, with ion masses ranging from protons up to A > 200, and luminosity L > 10/sup 25/cm/sup -2/sec/sup -1/ initially, ultimately reaching much higher values. These parameters were the subject of extensive scrutiny at the Quark Matter '83 Conference one month later at which several of the world's laboratories presented possibilities for very high energy nuclear beam facilities. After several days of such discussions a round table panel at the Conference strongly endorsed the recommendations of the August Working Group, with an emphasis on making the top energy as high as possible without sacrificing the capability for exploring the low energy range as well.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6191838
• Report Number(s): BNL-35237; CONF-8406189-7; ON: DE85001229
• Resource Relation: Conference: 4. international conference on ultrarelativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions - QUARK MATTER '84, Helsinki, Finland, 17 Jun 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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