Inside RHIC is a web publication that -- in some small measure -- reflects the excitement of the RHIC and AGS program at Brookhaven, as explained by some of the people who are doing the experiments, analyzing the data, and writing the papers. http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/InsideRHIC/ en-us www@bnl.gov http://www.bnl.gov/today/images/TODAY-110px.jpg http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/InsideRHIC/ 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2970 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:30:00 EST 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2960 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:30:00 EST 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2813 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2756 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:30:00 EST 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2757 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:15:00 EST 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. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2758 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:00:00 EST Yasuyuki Akiba, the Experimental Group Leader at the RIKEN BNL Research Center, and Deputy Spokesperson of the PHENIX collaboration, was awarded the Nihsina Memorial Prize for 2011. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2731 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:30:00 EST Direct photons are a powerful tool to investigate the collision dynamics. PHENIX has measured direct photons over wide pT ranges, including hard scattering and thermal photons, and extracted quantities, such as slope parameters, that reflect thermodynamic properties of the matter. An unexpectedly large positive elliptic measured for direct photons is difficult to explain by many models. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2724 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:30:00 EST The units of the American Physical Society provide opportunities for members to interact with colleagues with similar interests and to keep abreast of new developments in their specialized fields. One such unit is the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2553 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:30:00 EST eRHIC is a proposed upgrade to RHIC involving the addition of a high-intensity electron beam, which will collide with one of the existing hadron beams. Such an upgrade will open a wide new frontier of precision hadron physics for the RHIC facility. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2465 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:30:00 EST This event, held in the Rayburn Foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building, was organized to highlight the significant and important role that scientific user facilities play in science education, economic competitiveness, fundamental knowledge, and scientific achievements. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2389 Thu, 19 May 2011 07:00:00 EST At the January 2011 RHIC Open Forum meeting Susan White-DePace made a presentation on the National User Facility Organization (NUFO). For those of you who were unable to participate in that event, we would like to share information about this important organization. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2255 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:30:00 EST Let me start by wishing all members of the RHIC users community a healthy and productive 2011. Then, I would like to bring you up to date on the upcoming Run 11 and a number of issues regarding planning for RHIC’s future. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2192 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:30:00 EST A particle called η' meson is found to reduce its mass in less than 10^-22 second in high energy heavy ion collisions at RHIC. Apparently this is the fastest mass reduction ever observed. This indicates the restoration of a lost symmetry of strong interactions in a hot and dense, hadronic matter. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2193 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:30:00 EST Recently, Physical Review accepted for publication a paper from the PHENIX experiment on the first measurement of the transverse single-spin asymmetry (TSSA) in J/Ψ production in polarized high-energy proton + proton collisions at RHIC. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2161 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST A new experiment called AnDY is being installed at RHIC's IP-2 area. Two 12x9 hadron calorimeter modules are now sitting at IP-2. They are tested and calibrated with cosmic rays and light emitting diodes using a trigger and DAQ system from the University of California, Berkeley/Space Science Laboratory. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2140 Thu, 2 Dec 2010 07:30:00 EST A common tool used to study the properties of the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) is the azimuthal anisotropy of particles emitted in the transverse plane. A non-zero anisotropy can be traced to the elliptic shape of the initial fireball and the strong final state interaction which transfers such spacial asymmetry into the transverse momentum (p_T) space. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2063 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EST The PHENIX detector is undergoing some major changes before the next RHIC run. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2048 Tue, 5 Oct 2010 07:30:00 EST A common tool used to study the properties of the strongly interacting Quark Gluon Plasma (sQGP) is the azimuthal anisotropy of particles emitted in the transverse plane. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2047 Tue, 5 Oct 2010 07:30:00 EST Doug Bryman, Laurie Littenberg, and Stew Smith have been awarded the American Physical Society's W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics for 2011 for their work on AGS Experiment 787. http://www.bnl.gov/today/story.asp?ITEM_NO=2052 Tue, 5 Oct 2010 07:30:00 EST