QCD and heavy ions: RHIC overview

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Abstract

Nowadays, the most violent heavy ion collisions available to experimental study occur at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. There, gold ions collide at √sNN = 200 GeV. The early and most striking RHIC results were summarised in 2005 by its four experiments, BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS and STAR, in their so-called white papers [1, 2, 3, 4] that will be largely referenced thereafter. Beyond and after this, a wealth of data has been collected and analysed, providing additional information about the properties of the matter created at RHIC. It is categorically impossible to give a comprehensive review of these results in a 20 minutes talk or a 7 pages report. Here, I have made a selection of some of the most striking or intriguing signatures: jet quenching in Section 2, quarkonia suppressions in Section 3 and thermal photons in Section 4. A slightly longer and older version of this review can be found in [5]. Some updates are given here, as well as emphasis on new probes recently made available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (Blois Workshop), EDS 2009
PublisherCERN
Pages352-358
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9789290833420
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2010
Event13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, EDS 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland
Duration: 29 Jun 20093 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameCERN-Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2078-8835

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, EDS 2009
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityGeneva
Period29/06/093/07/09

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