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 spectrom. + 2 muon endcaps
  • Acceptance
    • |h|< 0.35 (e, g, hadrons)
    • 1.2 < |h|< 2.5 (muons - 2nd year)
  • Open geometry axial field
  • High granularity, high rate, good PID, good momentum resolution