Welcome to RHIC News
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.
A
Year in Review: The Work of the Users Executive Committee
By Rene Bellwied
The past year has been very eventful for all of us, largely
because of decisions made in Washington regarding science
funding. The UEC has tried to navigate through these ever
changing circumstances keeping in mind the best interests of the
BNL users community. More...
The
First Full Jet Measurements in Heavy Ion Collisions
By Sevil Salur
Jets are collimated sprays of particles that are remnants of
hard-scattered quarks and gluons. They are fundamental to QCD
and are observed in high energy collisions of all kinds. At RHIC,
jets are put to a new use to study the hot QCD matter through
their interaction and energy loss in the medium ("jet
quenching"). Until now, only indirect measurements of jet
quenching have been made via inclusive hadron distributions and
di-hadron correlations at high transverse momentum, to avoid the
complex backgrounds of heavy ion events. More...
Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This week: Ozaki
Awarded Wilson Prize and SPIN 2008. 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.