Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) @ BNL
Specifications:
- 3.83 km circumference
- 2 independent rings:
- 120 bunches/ring
- 106 ns crossing time
- Au + Au collisions @ 200 GeV/nucleon (~ 10 times SPS energy)
- Luminosity: 2·1026 cm-2 s-1
4 Experiments:
- PHENIX, STAR, PHOBOS, BRAHMS
1st run: June - Sept. ‘00
2nd run: May ‘01 - Feb. ‘02