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Updates
on RHIC Run 8 and Beyond
By Steve Vigdor
This week, I attempt to bring you up to date on several recent
and planned events that bear on the science programs at RHIC and
the AGS, and more generally on Nuclear and Particle Physics
plans at BNL. These plans cover a broad range of exciting
science, and our challenge going forward is in providing
sufficient funding to realize a major fraction of these
opportunities. More...
STAR
From the Spokesperson’s Perspective
By Nu Xu
Many years ago, I came to the U.S. as a graduate student from
the University of Science and Technology of China. I did my
Ph.D. degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
and then spent four years working on an experiment at the AGS.
Before I moved to Berkeley, I worked (with Professor Barbara
Jacak) at the Los Alamos National Lab for two and half years. I
joined the STAR Collaboration in 1997. More...
PHENIX
From the Spokesperson's Perspective
By Barbara Jacak
The PHENIX Collaboration has just completed a very successful
Run-8. We took over 80 nb−1 of integrated luminosity,
representing 160 billion sampled minimum-bias events. This
provides a factor of 30 increase over Run-3, and will provide
much needed reference data for cold nuclear matter effects upon
probes of the hot, dense matter produced at RHIC. In particular
the conclusions from J/ψ and open charm production will become
much clearer using the Run-8 data as reference. In addition,
PHENIX had two Muon Piston Calorimeters in place during Run-8,
allowing us to search for evidence of saturation of gluons in
nuclei at small momentum fraction. The p+p collision period of
Run-8 was short, but we managed to add substantially to our
transversely polarized spin data. More...
Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This
week: New Ph.Ds From STAR, Brookhaven Lecture on RHIC Physics,
Barbara Jacak Named Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook
University, New Online Journal on QCD Matter, and RHIC Run 8
Retreat. More...
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.