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Transverse
Single-Spin Asymmetries for Di-Jet Production in pp Collisions By
Steve Vigdor
The STAR Collaboration has just submitted for publication the
first paper reporting results from the long polarized proton
collision run enabled at RHIC in 2006 by a sponsored research
grant from Renaissance Technologies Corporation. The paper
reports the first measurement in pp collisions that directly
probes possible transverse motion preferences of quarks or
gluons that are correlated with the proton’s transverse spin
orientation. More...
PHENIX
Reaction Plane Detector By Xie Wei
The large hadron elliptic flow (v2) provides key evidence of the
hot and dense matter formation in Au+Au collisions at RHIC. The
measurements in rare probes such as electrons from heavy flavor
decays, direct photons, and high pT particles provide even
richer information on the properties of the matter. The accuracy
of these measurements is not only limited by luminosities but
also rely on accurate reaction plane measurement. More...
A
Small Army: The Accelerator Operations Groups By Peter
Ingrassia
If your auditory buss can pipe information at 100Gb/s then you
will have no trouble keeping up with Jenn Niedziela when she
makes one of her frequent visits. She is a packet of energy and,
as such, energizes her crew of two operators Carl Andersen and
Jeremy Jacobsen. Jennifer is one six Operations Coordinators
(OC) charged with the safe and efficient operation of the
accelerator complex. In a short period she became quite adept at
operating the RHIC and has collaborated on a number of RHIC
Accelerator Physics Experiments. 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.