RHIC physics overview

Abstract

The results from data taken during the last several years at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) will be reviewed in the paper. Several selected topics that further our understanding of constituent quark scaling, jet quenching and color screening effect of heavy quarkonia in the hot dense medium will be presented. Detector upgrades will further probe the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma. Future measurements with upgraded detectors will be presented. The discovery perspectives from future measurements will also be discussed.

9 pages, 4 figures, invited review article, published by Frontier of Physics in China

References in corpus (23)

• The Chiral Magnetic Effect
• The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics
• Systematic Measurements of Identified Particle Spectra in pp, d+Au and Au+Au Collisions from STAR
• The QCD transition temperature: results with physical masses in the continuum limit
• The QCD Equation of State with almost Physical Quark Masses
• J/psi Production vs Centrality, Transverse Momentum, and Rapidity in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• The transition temperature in QCD
• Centrality dependence of charged hadron and strange hadron elliptic flow from sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au+Au collisions
• An AdS/CFT Calculation of Screening in a Hot Wind
• Canonical partition function and finite density phase transition in lattice QCD
• Upsilon production at the Tevatron and the LHC
• Partonic flow and $\varphi$-meson production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV
• Collisional dissociation of heavy mesons in dense QCD matter
• Heavy flavor in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and RHIC II
• Transverse Momentum Spectra of J/ψin Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Elliptic flow for phi mesons and (anti)deuterons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• J/psi Production in sqrt (s_NN)= 200 GeV Cu+Cu Collisions
• J/psi production at high transverse momentum in p+p and Cu+Cu collisions at \sNN=200GeV
• Prospects of medium tomography using back-to-back hadron correlations
• Jet hadrochemistry as a characteristics of jet quenching
• Probing Nuclear Matter with Jet Conversions
• Jet conversions in a quark-gluon plasma
• Note on proton-antiproton suppression in 200 AGeV Au-Au collisions