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PHENIX is a multifaceted heavy-ion experiment designed to detect a large
set of physics signals from collisions of 100 GeV/c Au nuclei at the Brookhaven
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). These collisions recreate conditions
that were present approximatly one micro-second after the big bang. It
has been predected that the high energy densities created in these collisions
will precipitate a phase transition from QCD bound states (protons, neutrons,
pions, ...) into a plasma of quarks and gluons. |
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The LLNL Heavy-Ion group studies the size of these collisions using a
technuique of two-particle correlations, commonly referred to as HBT,
GGLP, or Bose-Einstein Correlations. The statistical interference and
final state interactions of identical particles are used to extract the
dimensions and lifetime of the particle emission region.
The LLNL group was responsible for the magnet steel design, and
currently utlizes the computing resources of Livermore Computing as
a simlution cluster for PHENIX.
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Active Members from the HEP Group
- Jane Burward-Hoy
- Ed Hartouni
- Mike Heffner
- Stephen Johnson
- Ron Soltz
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