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 `00 - Sept. ‘00

• 2nd run: June ‘01 - Nov. ‘01