Milestones of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC
Abstract
The latest PHENIX results for particle production are presented in this paper. A suppression of the yield of high p_t (transverse momentum) hadrons in central Au+Au collisions is found. In contrast, direct photons are not suppressed in central Au+Au collisions and no suppression of high p_t particles can be seen in d+Au collisions. This leads to the conclusion that the dense medium formed in central Au+Au collisions is responsible for the suppression. It is as well found, that the properties of this medium are similar to the one of a liquid. Further measurements provide information about the chiral dynamics of the system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0712.1435,
title = {Milestones of the PHENIX experiment at RHIC},
author = {M. Csanad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1435},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures. For the proceedings of M. Csanad's talk at the XII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy - Hadron07