Nuclear Physics Seminar
STAR at RHIC: Past, Present and Future
Jamie Dunlop (Brookhaven National Lab)
The program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at
Brookhaven National
Laboratory has been a resounding success, leading to qualitative
advances in
our understanding of the properties of the universe in its earliest
stages.
The study of this matter, created in the laboratory through
collisions between nuclei at high
energies, is entering into a new, quantitative phase with upgrades to
both the
detectors and the collider, termed RHIC II. Limitations of current
measurements will be reviewed, along with the upcoming methods to
produce high
precision quantification of the properties of the matter produced at
RHIC.
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