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Summary (I)
Scientific goals of high-energy heavy-ion physics:
- Investigate the QCD phase diagram.
- Produce/study the QGP in the laboratory: color deconfinement & chiral symmetry restoration
- Probe the quark-hadron phase transition of the early Universe.
- Study high gluon density & small-x physics.
Means:
- Producing the densest and hottest matter ever formed on Earth in high-energy (s ~ 200 GeV) Au-Au collisions.
- Analyzing the experimental probes (global, hard, ...) that are sensitive to this new state of matter.
PHENIX Run-1 data:
- Au+Au @ sNN = 130 GeV. 5M events, L ~ b-1
- Inclusive charged hadrons, 0, and e at mid-rapidity (||<0.35)
PHENIX Run-2 data:
- Au+Au, p+p @ sNN = 200 GeV. 200M events, L ~ 25 b-1
- Inclusive Run-1 spectra + azimuth. corr., J/, g, + forw. rapidities
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