Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (STAR Detector)

Bernard Liu

Need

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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC/RHIC_complex.htm

STAR Detector

http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/STAR.htm

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)

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Quark gluon plasma (QGP)

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A QGP is formed at the collision point of two relativistically accelerated gold ions in the center of the STAR detector at the relativistic heavy ion collider at the Brookhaven national laboratory.

QGP

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Experiments

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A shower of particles resulting from the collision of gold ions, as observed by STAR's Time Projection Chamber.

Literature Review

http://www.star.bnl.gov/central/focus/JPsi/ Xu, et. al, 2008

Literature Review

http://www.star.bnl.gov/central/focus/JPsi/ Shao, et. al, 2008

Literature Review

http://www.star.bnl.gov/central/focus/JPsi/Abeleve et al.

Literature Review

Bibliography• Abeleve, B.I. et al. "J/v production at high transverse momenta in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at √sNN = 200

GeV” STAR Collaboration • BNL Formal Report -73847-2005 “Hunting the Quark Gluon Plasma: Results from the First 3 Years at RHIC,

Assessments by the Experimental Collaborations” April 18, 2005 • Creutz, Michael. Quarks, gluons and lattices. Cambridge: CUP, 1983. • "Early Universe was 'liquid-like'" BBC 19 Apr. 2005• Kehoe, R. L. “Measurement of the Top Quark and W Boson Masses” D0 and CDF Collaborations • Schewe, Phil, and Ben Stein. "An Ocean of Quarks." American Institute of Physics News• Shao, Ming et al. “Extensive Particle Identification with TPC and TOF at the STAR Experiment” Elsevier

Science 8 February 2008.• Oerter, Robert. Theory of almost everything the Standard Model, the unsung triumph of modern physics.

New York: Pi, 2006. • Veltman, Martinus. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics. Boston: World Scientific Company,

2003. • Xu, Yichun et al. “Calibration of ionization energy loss at relativistic rise with STAR Time Projection

Chamber” Elsevier Science 28 July 2008

• http://www.star.bnl.gov/ • http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/STAR.htm