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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.
Electron
Cooling of RHIC By Ilan Ben-Zvi
Discoveries at the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have captured worldwide attention.
They’ve also raised compelling new questions about the theory
that describes the interactions of the smallest known components
of the atomic nucleus. To address these questions, we need to to
study rare processes and thus to increase the collider’s
luminosity, or the rate at which ions collide inside the
accelerator. More...
DAQ1000
Project: Upgrade of STAR TPC's Detector Electronics & DAQ by
Tonko Ljubicic
The STAR experiment at RHIC is undergoing a series of major
detector upgrades which should be completed in the following
years. One of these is the upgrade of the electronics and the
data acquisition system (DAQ) of its most important detector,
the Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The goal is to be able to
record a 1000 Hz event rate with minimal detector deadtime which
represents a factor of 20 increase from today. More...
APEX:
Accelerator Physics Experiments at RHIC by Fulvia Pilat
It is late at night on a Tuesday or early at sunrise on a
Wednesday and the RHIC Main Control Room (MCR) is getting ready
for an APEX shift: instead of the usual quiet work of the
evening or owl operation crews who efficiently attend to the
need of the accelerators and the RHIC physics experiments, teams
of accelerator physicist start to show up. Accelerator
physicists, supported by machine and system specialists as well
as operators collaborate on testing the latest and newest beam
techniques proposed for RHIC. 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.