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Presentation
First results from RHIC-PHENIX
Pramana - Journal of Physics
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Conference
International Symposium on Nuclear Physics
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-1-2001
Conference Title
International Symposium on Nuclear Physics
Conference Date
December 18-22, 2000
Geolocation
(19.0759837, 72.87765590000004)
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment consists of a large detector system located at the newly commissioned relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The primary goal of the PHENIX experiment is to look for signatures of the QCD prediction of a deconfined high-energy-density phase of nuclear matter quark gluon plasma. PHENIX started data taking for Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 130 GeV in June 2000. The signals from the beam-beam counter (BBC) and zero degree calorimeter (ZDC) are used to determine the centrality of the collision. A Glauber model reproduces the ZDC spectrum reasonably well to determine the participants in a collision. Charged particle multiplicity distribution from the first PHENIX paper is compared with the other RHIC experiment and the CERN, SPS results. Transverse momentum of photons are measured in the electro-magnetic calorimeter (EMCal) and preliminary results are presented. Particle identification is made by a time of flight (TOF) detector and the results show clear separation of the charged hadrons from each other.
Copyright Owner
Indian Academy of Sciences
Copyright Date
2001
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Tarun Kanti Ghosh, Sergey Belikov, John C. Hill, John G. Lajoie, et al.. "First results from RHIC-PHENIX" Mumbai, IndiaPramana - Journal of Physics Vol. 57 Iss. 2-3 (2001) p. 355 - 369 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig-ogilvie/276/
This article is published as Ghosh, Tarun Kanti, K. Adcox, S. S. Adler, N. Ajitanand, Y. Akiba, J. Alexander, L. Aphecetche et al. "First results from RHIC-PHENIX." Pramana 57, no. 2 (2001): 355-369. Posted with permission.