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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.
The Muon Piston Calorimeter
By Mickey Chiu
One of the pleasures of collaborating on the PHENIX experiment
is the chance to build an actual piece of the detector,
particularly if you enjoy tinkering with advanced technology and
coming up with ways to push the state of the art with detectors
in order to enable interesting physics measurements. More...
2008
Award Recipients
A number of scientists working at RHIC have been recognized by
the American Physical Society for their work, including five new
Fellows of the APS.
More...
Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This week:
Chu Selected for Secretary of Energy, Facility for Rare Isotope
Beams to be at Michigan State University, and Photographs of
Damage to LHC. 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.