Abstract
We present an overview of measurements from the PHENIX experiment focusing on soft observables in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The excellent particle identification of the PHENIX detector at low and intermediate transverse momentum provide an extensive set of measurements in nucleus-nucleus collisions and baseline measurements in p+p and d+Au collisions. Thermalized particle spectra, strong elliptic and radial flow, and HBT measurements reveal the global features of the hot QCD medium produced at RHIC energies while fluctuation measurements probe critical behavior near a phase transition. Collectively these measurements reveal a hot, dense medium with partonic degrees of freedom undergoing a locally-thermalized hydrodynamic expansion.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Proceedings of Science |
| Volume | 21 |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2005 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, HEP 2005 - Lisboa, Portugal Duration: Jul 21 2005 → Jul 27 2005 |
Funding
∗Speaker. †UCRL-PROC-217425. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract W-7405-Eng-48.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| University of California | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | W-7405-Eng-48 |