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RHIC Program, Its Origin and Early Results

Nuclear Experiment 2025-04-14 v1

Abstract

At the Brookhaven National Laboratory, experimental efforts with heavy-ion accelerators started at the AGS synchrotron in 1984 and then at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in 1991. This chapter of a future book describes how several scientific collaborations were established and how features of the quark-gluon plasma were revealed from the four RHIC experiments during the first five years of RHIC operation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.08406,
  title  = {RHIC Program, Its Origin and Early Results},
  author = {Wit Busza and John W. Harris and Shoji Nagamiya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08406},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

26 pages, 20 figures, to be a chapter of a future book

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