Experimental Setup: PHENIX @ RHIC
Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment
International collaboration:
- More than 400 scientists & engineers
- 12 different countries
- 50 laboratories & universities
11 detector sub-systems :
- 400.000 elect. channels (~4000 tons)
- Goal: “an apparatus for electrons, muons, photons and hadrons”
- 2 Arm central spectrometer + 2 muon endcaps
- Acceptance
- |?|< 0.35 (e, ?, hadrons)
- 1.2 < |?|< 2.5 (muons - 2nd year)
- Open Geometry Axial Field
- High granularity, high rate, good PID, good momentum resolution