STAR at RHIC
RHIC: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Colliding Au - Au nuclei at 100GeV/nucleon
- Principal objective: Discovery and characterization of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP)
- First year physics run April-August 2000
STAR experiment
- One of two large experiments at RHIC, collaborators each
- Hadrons, jets, electrons and photons over large solid angle
- Principal detector: 4m TPC drift chamber (operational)
- Si tracker (year 2)
- Pb/scint EM calorimeter (staged over years 1-3)
- ~4000+ tracks/event recorded in tracking detectors
- High statistics per event permit event by event measurement and correlation of QGP signals