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The study of high density matter at RHIC

Survey of experimental results from RHIC

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QCD predicts a phase transition between hadronic matter and a Quark Gluon Plasma at high energy density. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a new facility dedicated to the experimental study of matter under extreme conditions. Already the first round of experimental results at RHIC indicated that the conditions to create a new state of matter are indeed reached in the collisions of heavy nuclei. Studies of particle spectra and their correlations at low transverse momenta provide evidence of strong pressure gradients in the highly interacting dense medium and hint that we observe a system in thermal equilibrium. Recent runs with high statistics allow us to explore the regime of hard-scattering processes where the suppression of hadrons at large transverse momentum, and quenching of di-jets are observed thus providing further evidence for extreme high density matter created in collisions at RHIC.

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  1. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 11973-5000, USA

    Thomas S. Ullrich

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Università di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Sigfrido Boffi

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146, Genova, Italy

    Mauro M. Giannini

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Perugia, Via A. Pascoli 6/2, 06100, Perugia, Italy

    Claudio Ciofi degli Atti

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Ullrich, T.S. (2004). The study of high density matter at RHIC. In: Boffi, S., Giannini, M.M., Ciofi degli Atti, C. (eds) Perspectives in Hadronic Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18801-5_36

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