The PHOBOS Experiment Status and Results

7/27/00

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Table of Contents

The PHOBOS Experiment Status and Results

PHOBOS Collaboration

PHOBOS Apparatus

Commissioning Run Setup

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

PHOBOS Trigger

First Collisions at PHOBOS

Examples of events

Event selection

Event Statistics

Variables & Observables

What do we learn from dN/dh | |h|? 

Monte Carlo Simulations

Centrality Selection

Understanding Paddle Counters

ZDC Sum vs. Paddle Sum

Estimating Npart

Signal Distributions in Si

Measuring Vertex

Vertex Distributions

Tracklets

Measuring dN/dh with tracklets

Uncorrected dN/dh

Derivation of dN/dh

Results

Systematic Uncertainties

Comparisons with pp

PPT Slide

Author: R. R. BETTS

Email: betts@uic.edu