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Four experiments are currently approved for the first measurements with colliding heavy ion beams from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) which is scheduled to come into operation in Spring 1999. These experiments are named STAR, Phoenix, PHOBOS and Brahms. It is expected that central collisions of 100 GeV/u Au+Au at RHIC will lead to energy densities far above any so far attained in the laboratory and it is suspected and hoped that this situation will lead to qualitatively new physics perhaps associated with the creation of a large volume containing a plasma of deconfined quarks and gluons.
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Betts, R.R. (1996). Current Status of PHOBOS@RHIC. In: Bauer, W., Westfall, G.D. (eds) Advances in Nuclear Dynamics 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9086-3_31
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