A Cornucopia of Experiment at RHIC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-21 v2
Abstract
I outline experimental results on heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for a non-technical audience. This includes: elliptic flow and nearly ideal hydrodynamics; the suppression of hard particles and the ratio R_AA; and electromagnetic signals, including dileptons and direct photons. Especially puzzling is why the behavior of heavy (charm) quarks appears to be so similar to that of light quarks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.4585,
title = {A Cornucopia of Experiment at RHIC},
author = {Robert D. Pisarski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4585},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
16 pages, 15 figures. Invited talk at Lattice 2008. Corrected discussion of mean p_t in Color Glass model, fig. 3