PHENIX Design Philosophy
? Detect hadrons, electrons, muons, photons to
measure as many potential signatures of QGP
? Capability for high rate with pp, pA, AA
collisions. ( 100Hz for Au+Au central and
~10kHz for p+p min. bias events)
? Sensitive to very small cross section process
by triggering on exclusive leptons, photons,
and high pt hadrons with good momentum