PHENIX at a glance

Some Numerology

• 400,000 readout channels in detector’s final state

• 11 detector subsystems

• Minimum bias rate is ~ 1KHz (AU-AU)

• AU-AU central collision data size ~350Kb

• p-p collision data size 2-4 Kb

• Data delivered to mass storage at 20MB/s

Phenix Schedule:

• “engineering run” on now, June 1999 (experiment shakedown)

• start data taking at 1% RHIC luminosity in Nov 1999

• go to 10% luminosity in year 2000

• ramp up to 100% in 2001

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