Heavy Ion Physics and Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

These proceedings represent a brief overview of the exciting physics coming out from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The experimental results from BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX and STAR indicate a strongly-coupled state of matter that can only be described on the partonic level. Here we review some of the latest experimental results as presented at the meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society in Riverside, CA in August 2004.

12 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings from the meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the APS, August 2004, Riverside CA

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• Disappearance of back-to-back high $p_T$ hadron correlations in central Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV
• Elliptic Flow of Identified Hadrons in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Particle-type dependence of azimuthal anisotropy and nuclear modification of particle production in Au+Au collisions at s(NN)**(1/2) = 200-GeV
• Suppressed pi^0 Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• High-p_T Tomography of d+Au and Au+Au at SPS, RHIC, and LHC
• Mid-Rapidity Neutral Pion Production in Proton-Proto Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV
• Nuclear Stopping in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV
• Scaling properties of proton and anti-proton production in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV Au + Au collisions
• Does the Charm Flow at RHIC?
• The Ter-Mikayelian Effect on QCD Radiative Energy Loss
• Global Observations from PHOBOS