What is PHENIX?
- Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Ion eXperiment
- An international collaboration of more than 400 scientists and engineers
- ~4000 tons of extremely sophisticated detector sub-systems
- A scientific adventure to
- Understand the mystery of proton spin
- Understand the densest, hottest matter ever formed on Earth
- Search for and characterize new states of matter
Notes:
Phenix which stands for pioneering …
is one of the 4 experiments at RHIC with over 400 scientists and technicians from 12 countries around the world.