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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.
RHIC
Run 9 So Far
By Eduard Pozdeyev, CAD
This operational year (also known as "RHIC Run 9") began with a
250 GeV x 250 GeV (500 GeV) polarized proton run. It was the
first year of physics running with polarized protons colliding
with 500 GeV total energy. Steven Vigdor, Associate Laboratory
Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics, outlined the scope of
this milestone run (BNL Bulletin, “2009 RHIC Run”, Vol.63 –
No.9): “Physicists are interested in this higher energy because
they can make measurements of polarized proton spin over an
extended range of momentum of the quarks and gluons inside the
proton. In particular, RIKEN physicists are interested in it
because it will help them to meet a performance milestone they
set for 2011 — the first measurements of W boson production in
polarized proton collisions.”
More...
Three's
a Charm: The Story Behind the First 'Renowned' Result From RHIC
By Gabor David, BNL
500 citations - a threshold defined by SPIRES to be where a
paper becomes "renowned" - is no small feat in physics,
particularly in a field as cutting edge as relativistic heavy
ion physics. The first two RHIC publications to reach this
distinguished status were the PHENIX and STAR "White Papers",
100-plus page review articles summarizing dozens of important
results from the first three years of RHIC operations. More...
Third
Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics
By Ramona
Vogt (LLNL and UC Davis)
The units of the American Physical
Society (its divisions, topical groups, forums, and sections)
help fulfill the
APS
mission to “advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics”.
The units provide opportunities for members to interact with
colleagues with similar interests and to keep abreast of new
developments in their specialized fields. Communication within
units is promoted through unit meetings and newsletters. The
units also organize symposia at APS meetings to encourage
informal networking. APS units also nominate their members for
APS fellowships; the larger the unit, the more fellowship
nominations it is allowed each year.
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.