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This is a review of the physics prospects for relativistic heavy ion collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The motivation for the study of superdense matter created in relativistic heavy ion collision is the prospect of observing a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Berndt Müller

The PHENIX experiment has measured transverse single spin asymmetry of J/$\Psi$ in polarized p+p collisions at forward rapidity at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. The data were collected from year 2006 run of RHIC with average beam polarization of 56%.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Han Liu

We describe a start-timing detector for the PHENIX experiment at the relativistic heavy-ion collider RHIC. The role of the detector is to detect a nuclear collision, provide precise time information with an accuracy of 50ps, and determine…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Ikematsu , Y. Iwata , K. Kaimi , M. Kaneta , T. Kohama , N. Maeda , K. Matsukado , H. Ohnishi , K. Ono , A. Sakaguchi , T. Sugitate , Y. Sumi , Y. Takata , M. Tanabe , A. Yokoro

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) will be the first heavy ion accelerator energetic enough to produce hadronic final states via coherent \gamgam, \gampom, and \pompom interactions. Because the photon flux scales as $Z^2$, up to an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Spencer Klein , Evan Scannapieco

Spin-dependent pomeron effects are analyzed for elastic $pp$ scattering and calculations for spin-dependent differential cross sections, analyzing power and double-spin correlation parameters are carried out for the energy range of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 N. Akchurin , S. V. Goloskokov , O. V. Selyugin

The production of $W^\pm$ bosons in longitudinally polarized p+p collisions at RHIC provides a new means of studying the spin-flavour asymmetries of the proton sea quark spin distributions. Details of the W$^\pm$ event selection through the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-06-03 Joseph Seele

We present the first results using the STAR detector from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In this program, Au ion collisions at center of mass energies (\sqrt{s_{NN}}) of 7.7, 11.5 and 39…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Bedangadas Mohanty

The transverse momentum distributions of the identified particles produced in small collision systems at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been analyzed by four models. The first two models…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-05 Hai-Ling Lao , Fu-Hu Liu , Bao-Chun Li , Mai-Ying Duan , Roy A. Lacey

The STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) performs studies of diffractive processes with the focus on the exclusive production of particles in central range of rapidity. In 2015 STAR collected 18 pb$^{-1}$ of data in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rafal Sikora

Transverse single-spin asymmetries of very forward neutral pions generated in polarized $p + p$ collisions allow us to understand the production mechanism in terms of perturbative and non-perturbative strong interactions. During 2017 the…

Recent experimental and theoretical developments have motivated interest in a more detailed exploration of heavy ion collisions in the range sqrt(sNN)=5-15 GeV. In contrast to interactions at the full RHIC energy of sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV, such…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G S F Stephans

One of the main objectives of the high-energy spin physics program at RHIC at BNL is the precise determination of the polarized gluon distribution function, $\Delta g(x)$. Polarized $\vec{p}+\vec{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200\,$GeV and at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-07-17 Bernd Surrow

A possibility to accelerate a high intensity polarized proton beam up to 70 GeV at the IHEP accelerator, extract it from the main ring and deliver to several experimental setups is being studied now. We propose to study a wealth of single-…

Recent experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) will be discussed. Investigations of different nucleus-nucleus collisions in recent years focus on two main tasks, namely, the detailed study of sQGP…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-05 V. A. Okorokov

We present an improved measurement of the double helicity asymmetry for pi^0 production in polarized proton-proton scattering at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV employing the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The improvements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 PHENIX Collaboration , S. S. Adler

We study the production of $W^{\pm}$ and $Z$ gauge bosons in proton-proton and proton-neutron collisions up to a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt s=0.5\ TeV$, in connection with the realistic possibility of having proton-deuteron collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-17 Claude Bourrely , Jacques Soffer

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) came online in 2000, and the last three years have provided a wealth of new experimental data and theoretical work in this new energy frontier for nuclear physics. The transition from quarks and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Nagle , T. Hallman

We summarize the recent experimental results of heavy favor physics from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) at Long Island, New York, USA.We will discuss the directly reconstructed open charm mesons…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-30 Wenqin Xu

Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a particle accelerator facility planned for construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York by the United States Department of Energy. EIC will provide capabilities of colliding beams…