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We hope that this web publication will in some small measure reflect 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.
Strange Brew: Probing the Flow of (Strange) Quarks With Identified Particles
by Jamie Dunlop
At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), gold nuclei are
collided at high energy to produce a state of hot, dense matter
as it existed in the first few microseconds of our universe.
This matter appears to flow strongly, behaving almost as a
perfect fluid. This unexpected property of the matter created at
RHIC has led to great excitement both inside our community and
in the greater scientific community.
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Data
Transfer to RCF by Tom Throwe
300 Megabytes per second, or the
contents of an audio CD in two seconds, or the contents of a DVD
in 20 seconds--that is the rate at which data is being
transferred from the RHIC experiments to the RHIC Computing
Facility (RCF). Data from the PHENIX and STAR experiments start
out as signals in their detectors. These signals are collected
by the Front End Electronics (FEE) attached to the detectors and
the readout of these FEE modules are assembled by the Data
Acquisition systems of the two experiments. The resulting events
are stored in files on disks arrays in the PHENIX and STAR
Counting Houses until they are ready to be transferred to the
Mass Storage System of the RCF More...
The RHIC Spin Collaboration: Who We Are & What We Do by Abhay
Deshpande
RHIC spin collaboration (RSC) is unlike any other
"collaboration" at RHIC/BNL. It comprises of people interested
in the RHIC Spin physics from all aspects of the program: the
accelerator physicists from the Collider Accelerator Divisions
(CA), the experimentalists from PHENIX, STAR, BRAHMS detector
collaborations, the specialists in high energy beam polarimetry,
and the theorists around the world who help us interpret the
RHIC Spin data. There are no formal requirements to be a member
of the RHIC spin collaboration other than being interested in
the RHIC Spin program and curious of the spin structure of the
proton.
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RHIC Diary
by Angelika Drees
Mar 25: While rebucketing continues to look OK now we were
fighting PS failure all night. We still want to get ready for
delivering stores. Blue transmission deteriorated some though.
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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.