The RHIC design overview

Publisher's Note: Systematic studies of the centrality andsNNdependence of thedET/d

“…The NA49 results [17,18,19] were used for EMCal response studies for √ s N N =19.6 GeV data. The 1 The definition of E i in our earlier publication [7] is different for antibaryons contribution: E tot i was used instead of E tot i + m N . The current definition increases the value of E T by about 4%, independent of centrality.…”

“…PHENIX is one of four experiments located at RHIC [1]. The PHENIX detector consists of two central spectrometer arms, designated east and west for their location relative to the interaction region, and two muon spectrometers, similarly called north and south.…”

“…The systematic error on this value is not mentioned in the paper, therefore they were taken from [19]. The results used in this paper are also given in Table IV. For the same and lower √ s N N , the identified particle yields and m T were reconstructed using formula (1) and Fig. 1 in reference [18] and also Table II and formula (1) and (2) in reference [19].…”

Inclusive double-helicity asymmetries in neutral-pion and eta-meson production inp→+p→collisions at<

“…Outside of the experimental interaction regions, the stable polarization direction in RHIC is vertical [27]. The polarization for each bunch can be aligned or antialigned with this vertical axis at injection, allowing for variation over all four possible polarization combinations within four crossings, or 424 ns.…”

Quark–gluon matter

“…The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [47] at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a 3.8-km circumference accelerator composed of two identical, quasi-circular rings of superconducting magnets (∼400 dipoles and ∼500 quadrupoles) with six crossing-points. The machine, which started operation in 1999, can accelerate nuclei (protons) up to a maximum of 100 (250) BRAHMS [49] has two movable magnetic spectrometer arms with hadron identification (π, K, p) capabilities up to very large rapidities (y max ≈ 4 for charged pions).…”