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Truemanfest
By Sally Dawson
On Monday, May 12, 2008, the BNL Physics Department and
colleagues gathered to celebrate the retirement of Larry Trueman
with a symposium. The symposium featured talks on the history of
spin physics at BNL, along with talks by many of Larry’s
collaborators. Larry worked at BNL for 46 years in a variety of
roles.
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3D
Source Imaging of the Expanding Fireball
By Paul Chung
The PHENIX Collaboration at RHIC has performed a
model-independent extraction of the three-dimensional (3D)
source function for mid-rapidity pion pairs, with transverse
momentum pT between 0.2 and 0.36 GeV, produced in semi-central
relativistic collisions of Au beams at a centre-of-mass energy
of 200 GeV/nucleon.
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Understanding
the Jet Quenching and Medium Response: A Survey Study of Di-hadron
Correlation From PHENIX
By Jiangyong Jia
A jet is a collimated cluster of particles, which are the
fragments of outgoing quarks and gluons produced in
hard-scattering processes in high-energy and heavy-ion
collisions. Jets are typically produced in pairs and fly
back-to-back in the direction transverse to the beam (di-jets).
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Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This
week: Blogging for LHC, Chancellor's Award for Chuck Pancake,
and Kieran Boyle Receives Doctorate. 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.