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for Magnetic Monopoles at RHIC
By Vasily Dzhordzhadze
The separate existence of two opposite electric charges is a
well known phenomenon in Physics. Examples are electron -
proton, positron - antiproton etc. At the same time Nature
shows, that magnetic charges or magnetic poles exist only in
pairs, North and South. No single magnetic poles or Magnetic
Monopoles (MM) have been seen so far. Any attempt to break
magnets, gives again objects with two magnetic charges. More...
BNL
Physics Department Welcomes Steve Vigdor
By Sally Dawson
The Physics Department at BNL gathered on October 2 to welcome
Steve Vigdor to his new position as BNL Associate Laboratory
Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics. Steve replaced Peter
Bond, who had previously served in this position, on September
1, 2007. The day was organized by Physics Department Chair Tom
Ludlam and featured a full program of discussions of BNL Physics
Department activities. The focus was on science opportunities
for the future and the path towards realizing our scientific
goals.
More...
PHENIX
VTX Group Designs, Constructs Precision Vertex Tracking System
By Eric Mannel
As the PHENIX experiment moves from the discovery phase to the
detailed exploration of quark matter in the coming decade,
understanding heavy-flavor production will provide key
information about the earliest stages of heavy ion collisions.
In order to make robust measurements of heavy-flavor production,
precise vertex tracking is required to identify the decay
particles from charm and beauty particles through the
displacement of their trajectories from the primary collision.
The PHENIX VTX group has designed and started the construction
of a precision vertex tracking system (VTX) for the central arms
using state-of-the-art silicon detectors. More...
Publications From RHIC Experiments in 2007
The four RHIC experiments have extended our knowledge of heavy
ion collisions with a flood of results since turning on in 2001.
One measure of that is the number of papers appearing in the
journals of the American Physical Society, Physical Review and
Physical Review Letters. The SPIRES database of physics
publications helps keep track of papers in high energy and
nuclear physics. So far in 2007, 26 papers have been published
by the four collaborations. 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.