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First Collisions of Polarized Protons at a Center-of-mass Energy of 500GeV at the STAR Experiment: Status, Expectations and Future Projections
By Bernd Surrow, MIT
The STAR experiment has recently completed a program, collecting
data during the first collisions of polarized proton beams at a
beam energy of 250GeV, giving rise to a center-of-mass energy of
500GeV. This marks the beginning of a multi-year program
studying the polarization of antiquarks inside the proton using
the production of Wą bosons which are produced only at an
appreciable rate above a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV for
the colliding proton beams.
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5th
International Workshop On Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement
By Paul Sorensen, BNL
On June 8th to the 12th, Brookhaven National Laboratory will
host a workshop on the QCD Critical Point and the Onset of
Deconfinement. One hundred participants will travel from around
the world to attend the meetings. This is the 5th workshop in a
series that started in 2004 with a workshop at the ECT* in
Trento. Subsequent meetings were held at the University of
Bergen in 2005, at the Galileo Galilei Institute in Florence in
2006 and the GSI/Darmstadt in 2007. 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.