What's the matter at RHIC?

Abstract

I present here a concise review of the experimental results obtained at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), which shed light on the hot and dense quark gluon matter produced at these high temperature and density conditions.

14 pages, 8 figures, talk given at the CTP 2007 Symposiun on Sypersymmetry at LHC, Cairo, March 2007. Proceedings to appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics A. (Improve references and add minor comments)

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• Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Erratum: Transverse momentum and centrality dependence of high-\pt\ non-photonic electron suppression in Au+Au collisions at \sqrtsNN\ = 200 GeV
• Scaling properties of azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Identified baryon and meson distributions at large transverse momenta from Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{}_{NN}}}=200$ GeV
• Sequential charmonium dissociation
• Statistical hadronization of heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
• J/psi Production in Quark-Gluon Plasma
• High transverse momentum eta meson production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Jet Shapes in Opaque Media
• Three-Particle Azimuthal Correlations