PHENIX

 

Main Project: 

PHENIX, the Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment, is a special purpose detector designed and built to investigate various aspects of the high-energy collisions of heavy-ions and protons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Focused on studying the elusive Quark-Gluon Plasma, PHENIX is optimized to explore the extreme conditions that existed microseconds after the Big Bang, using rare processes with electromagnetic probes like photons and electrons.

The first collisions at PHENIX were recorded in the year 2000 and data-taking concluded in 2016. A number of analyses are continuing, with emphasis on those with a physics reach unique to PHENIX.

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Our Publications:

Suppression of hadrons with large transverse momentum in central Au+Au collisions at √s_NN = 130 GeV

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 022301

Creation of quark–gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries

Nature Phys. 15 (2019) 3, 214-220

 

Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross Section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at √s=510  GeV in p↑+p↑ Collisions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023) 25, 251901

 

Nonprompt direct-photon production in Au+Au collisions at √s_NN= 200 GeV

arXiv:2203.17187 [nucl-ex]

 

Disentangling centrality bias and final-state effects in the production of high-p_T π⁰ using direct γ in d+Au collisions at √s_NN= 200 GeV

arXiv:2303.12899 [nucl-ex]

 

List of all PHENIX publications