Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) @ BNL

• Specifications:

  • 3.83 km circumference
  • 2 independent rings:
    • 120 bunches/ring
    • 106 ns crossing time
  • Au + Au collisions @ 200A GeV
  • (~10 times CERN-SPS energy)
  • Luminosity: 2·1026 cm-2 s-1 (~1.4 kHz)

• 4 experiments:

  • PHENIX, STAR, PHOBOS, BRAHMS

• 1st run: June '00 - Sept. ‘00

  • (collisions at 130A GeV)