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The most recent physics results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are surveyed. The survey is devoted to considering p + p, Cu + Cu, and Au + Au systems of colliding nuclei at c.m. energies of √s NN = 200, 62.4, and 22.4 GeV. The results obtained within the first years of collider operation are discussed. New data on the production of high-transverse-momentum particles are presented. Manifestations of collective flows, such as the radial and elliptic flows, as well as the formation of a shock wave and a ridge, are considered. The results concerning heavy-quark production are also discussed.
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Original Russian Text © V.S. Pantuev, 2009, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2009, Vol. 72, No. 12, pp. 2035–2045.
An extended version of the report presented at the conference Physics of Fundamental Interactions held at the session of the Nuclear Physics Section of the General Physics Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP, Moscow), November 19–23, 2007.
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Pantuev, V.S. Recent results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Phys. Atom. Nuclei 72, 1971–1981 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778809120011
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