Important experimental observables at RHIC

Abstract

In this talk I discuss the significance of the first RHIC measurements for establishing the properties of hot and dense QCD matter and for understanding the dynamics of the theory at the high parton density, strong color field frontier. Hopes and expectations for the future are discussed as well.

10 pages, 10 figures, Invited talk given at the XVI International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions ``Quark Matter 2002'', Nantes, France, July 18-24, 2002

References in corpus (8)

• Elliptic flow from two- and four-particle correlations in Au + Au collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 130 GeV
• QCD in Nuclear Collisions
• Charge Particle Multiplicity and Transverse Energy Measurements in Au-Au collisions in PHENIX at RHIC
• Experimental summary on global observables, hadron spectra and ratios
• Soft Physics in STAR
• High $p_T$ Measurements from PHENIX
• Leptonic Observables in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
• High Transverse Momentum Results from the STAR Collaboration

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• Evidence from d+Au measurements for final-state suppression of high $p_T$ hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC
• Forward Neutral Pion Production in p+p and d+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV
• Vortex critical behavior at the de-confinement phase transition
• Review of Forward Physics at RHIC