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David Silvermyr

David Silvermyr

Senior lecturer

David Silvermyr

Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX Collaboration

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Summary, in English

Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive set of measurements from the first three years of RHIC operation includes charged particle multiplicities, transverse energy, yield ratios and spectra of identified hadrons in a wide range of transverse momenta (PT), elliptic flow, two-particle correlations, nonstatistical fluctuations, and suppression of particle production at high PT. The results are examined with an emphasis on implications for the formation of a new state of dense matter. We find that the state of matter created at RHIC cannot be described in terms of ordinary color neutral hadrons.

Department/s

  • Department of Physics
  • Particle and nuclear physics

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

184-283

Publication/Series

Nuclear Physics, Section A

Volume

757

Issue

1-2

Document type

Journal article review

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0375-9474