Table of Contents
A Pedestrian’s Guide to RHIC and Its Experiments
Outline
RHIC
RHIC Specifications
RHIC’s Experiments
How is RHIC Different?
RHIC Luminosity
RHIC Spin Physics
Why is RHIC?
Making Something from Nothing
Phase Diagrams
A Silly Analogy
In Pictures
Nature’s providence
Low pT matters
Measuring Shapes and Sizes
Basic Techniques
Magnetic Measurements
Particle Identification by dE/dx
Particle Identification by TOF
Kinematics 101
(PID) Acceptances
PID Overlaps
Electron Identification
Why electrons?
p0 Reconstruction
Hermeticity
BRAHMS
BRAHMS Acceptance
PHOBOS
PHOBOS Details
PHOBOS Results
STAR
STAR Challenge
STAR Event
STAR Reality
STAR results on Elliptic Flow
PHENIX
PHENIX Design
PHENIX Reality
Determining NPART
RHIC ZDC’s
Determining N(participants)
PHENIX Results
Time to Physics
Summary
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