The PHOBOS Perspective on Discoveries at RHIC

To be submitted to Nucl. Phys. AWill also appear as a BNL Report.

  • Figure  1 - dN/deta vs eta for Au+Au at 3 energies and many centralities

  • Figure  2 - dN/deta vs sqrt(s) for AA and Au+Au at 200 GeV compared to many theories

  • Figure  3 - Low pT spectra of identified particles in Au+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure  4 - pbar/p and K-/K+ vs sqrt(s) for AA

  • Figure  5 - pbar/p vs centrality for d+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure  6 - Elliptic flow vs centrality for Au+Au at 130 and 200 GeV

  • Figure  7 - Elliptic flow vs pT for Au+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure  8 - R_AA vs pT for 6 centralities in Au+Au at 62.4 and 200 GeV

  • Figure  9 - R_dAu vs pt for 4 centralities in d+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure 10 - R_dAu vs eta for 4 values of pT in d+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure 11 - Total multiplicity vs sqrt(s) for AA, pp, and e+e-

  • Figure 12 - Total multiplicity divided by Npart vs centrality for d+Au at 200 GeV and Au+Au at three energies.

  • Figure 13 - Total multiplicity divided by pp multiplicity vs centrality in a large variety of systems

  • Figure 14 - dN/deta divided by Npart vs eta for Au+Au at 2 centralities and 2 energies

  • Figure 15 - dN/deta vs eta for d+Au at 200 GeV at 5 centralities

  • Figure 16 - Same as figure 15 but divided by Npart/2

  • Figure 17 - Same as figure 15 but divided by dN/deta for pp.  Also has inset of integrated value vs centrality for several eta slices

  • Figure 18 - dN/deta divided by Npart for Au+Au compared to dN/deta for pp and dN/dyT for e+e-, all at 200 GeV

  • Figure 19 - Midrapidity dN/deta divided by Npart vs sqrt(s) for AA and pp

  • Figure 20 - pbar/p vs sqrt(s) for AA and pp

  • Figure 21a - dN/deta for pp  vs eta-ybeam

  • Figure 21b - dN/dyT for e+e- vs yT-yjet

  • Figure 22 - dN/deta for pA and d+Au vs eta+/-ybeam

  • Figure 23 - dN/dy vs y for pions from AA at 6 energies

  • Figure 24 - dN/deta vs eta+/-ybeam for Au+Au at 3 energies and 2 centralities

  • Figure 25 - Elliptic flow vs eta for Au+Au at 4 energies

  • Figure 26 - Same as figure 25 but plotted vs eta+/-ybeam

  • Figure 27 - HBT parameters vs kT for Au+Au at 2 energies

  • Figure 28 - Y_YKP vs Y_pipi for AA at 3 energies

  • Figure 29 - Midrapidity dN/deta vs centrality for Au+Au at 2 energies

  • Figure 30 - Ratio of two energies plotted in figure 29

  • Figure 31 - R_PC^Npart vs centrality for 6 pT bins in Au+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure 32 - R_AA^Npart and R_PC^Npart vs pT in 4 centrality bins for Au+Au at 2 energies

  • Figure A1 - Phobos detector overview

  • Figure A2 - Phobos detector central region blowup

  • Figure B1 - cartoon of nuclei colliding

  • Figure B2 - Npart and Ncoll vs b in Au+Au at 200 GeV and Ncoll/Npart vs centrality for Au+Au at 4 energies

  • Figure C1 - ZDC vs Paddle mean for Au+Au at 200 GeV

  • Figure C2 - Histogram of number of paddles hit in data and MC

  • Figure C3 - Illustration of eta regions used in centrality in Au+Au

  • Figure C4 - Histograms of various centrality measures in Au+Au

  • Figure C5 - Four 2D plots illustrating Au+Au centrality method

  • Figure C6 - Illustration of bias introduced by different centrality measures in d+Au

  • Figure C7 - Comparison of data and MC for different centrality measures in d+Au

  • Figure C8 - Illustration of centrality bins in d+Au