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The AGS floor in 1964. The sound of the AGS horn from about 1990 can be heard here (.wav).

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Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community.

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LHC News

Jan Rak of Jyvaskyla University and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland, and a member of the PHENIX and ALICE collaborations reports, "On Friday evening August 8th LHC people managed to steer the pilot beam (~5x10⁹ protons per bunch, energy 450 GeV) from SPS through ALICE IR and dump it in IR3 (downstream from ALICE). This corresponds roughly to 1/8 of the LHC ring (4 km). This was a real milestone-first beam in the LHC tunnel after 15 years of R&D and construction! We (ALICE) were taking data with pixel tracker and BBC-like trigger detectors when dumping the beam on one of the upstream collimators." For more news about protons in the LHC, go here. For CERN's rap video explaining the LHC, see this website.

New Associate Director for Office of Science for High Energy Physics

Dennis Kovar has been appointed the Associate Director of the Office of Science for High Energy Physics. He has been acting in this role since October 15, 2007 on detail from his position as Associate Director of the Office of Science for Nuclear Physics. More information can be found here (.pdf).

RHIC Summer Sunday

RHIC and the RHIC experiments will be featured at Brookhaven's Summer Sunday on August 17, 2008. This has been a very popular event in past years, and there is more information here. Last year's event was covered in RHIC news here.

 

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.