Recent News:

On June 18, The Phobos collaboration participated in a colloquium and press conference at BNL during which all 4 RHIC experiments presented exciting results from the deuteron-gold (d+Au) data taken earlier in 2003.  More information about the event including links to news releases and the talks presented can be found at the RHIC and BNL web pages.  The Phobos presentation is here.

In addition, Phobos was one of 3 experiments submitting an account of the new analysis to Physical Review Letters. The d+Au data strongly suggest that the high transverse momentum suppression seen in Au+Au data is not due to initial state effects but is instead due to the formation of some exotic state of matter, the nature of which will be the subject of intense future study. (Note that while the suppression was first seen in 130 GeV Au+Au by Phenix, the first submitted publication of Au+Au spectra showing this suppression at the full RHIC energy of 200 GeV came from Phobos.)

The recently submitted Phobos data are unique in that they describe the detailed centrality dependence of the d+Au spectra, an aspect which allows more quantitative comparison to various theoretical models.