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Search for Associate Laboratory Director for High Energy and Nuclear Physics

March 26, 2012

A search committee for the the Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, to replace Steve Vigdor, who is retiring at end of 2012 (see his Annual State of RHIC Report), has been appointed by Sam Aronson.

Rachid Nouicer

New Era of Heavy Flavor Measurements at RHIC: PHENIX Silicon Vertex Tracker

March 19, 2012

One of the striking discoveries from the heavy-ion program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is that the medium created in central 200 AGeV Au-Au collisions behaves like a nearly perfect fluid.

Steven Vigdor

The Annual State of RHIC Report

January 10, 2012

Let me take this opportunity to wish all of you and your families a happy and prosperous New Year, and to bring you up to date on 2011 RHIC highlights and plans and issues for 2012 and beyond.

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RHIC Heavy Ions Run-11: a Retrospective

December 05, 2011

As the heavy ion physics program has evolved at RHIC, improvements and upgrades in the Collider-Accelerator complex have paid off in both peak luminosity and luminosity lifetime. As a result, RHIC has been able to provide sufficient integrated luminosity despite shorter run lengths.

Michiko Minty

Precision Control of Beams in RHIC

December 05, 2011

The RHIC physics programs rely on particle beams of exquisite quality. For high luminosity this means maximizing the beam intensities and ensuring that the bunches of particles comprising the beams are as small and dense as possible. For experiments with polarized protons, the beam’s polarization must also be preserved. Within the past few years the quality of RHIC beams has been improved significantly.

M. J. Tannenbaum

International Symposium on Subnuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future

December 05, 2011

This was the first ever symposium of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the subject of Subnuclear Physics. Although the Pontifical Academy traces its roots to the Accademia dei Lincei, which was founded in Rome in 1603, the modern Academy dates from 1936.

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About Inside RHIC

"Inside RHIC" is an online publication covering news and views of the RHIC and AGS program at Brookhaven National Laboratory at the level of engineers and students. The RHIC AGS Users Group is sponsoring this effort, and we have tried to cover the breadth of the efforts at RHIC, from physics results to machine and detector development.

Upcoming Physics Talks

Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Nuclear Physics Seminar
"When one photon is not enough"
Alexander Winnebeck, MIT
11:00 AM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Thursday, May 31, 2012
Particle Physics Seminar
"Performance of the ATLAS Inner Detector in the high pile-up environment"
Kirill Prokofiev, NYU
3:00 PM, Small Seminar Room, Bldg. 510

Upcoming Events

National User Facility Organization Annual Meeting

June 18-20, 2012 (BNL)  |  website

RHIC Annual Meeting

June 12-15, 2012 (BNL)  |  website

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