Brookhaven National Laboratory Receives Approval for Upgraded sPHENIX Detector

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:43:03 +0000

Brookhaven National Laboratory Receives Approval for Upgraded sPHENIX Detector Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/01/2017 - 11:43

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Brookhaven National Laboratory has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy recently granted "Critical Decision-Zero" (CD-0) status to the sPHENIX project, a proposed upgrade of the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). This decision paves the way for building a ground-breaking research tool which would have "unprecedented precision for tracking subatomic interactions."

CU Physics Professors Jamie Nagle and Dennis Perepelitsa are research leaders in the new sPHENIX project, and Prof. Nagle previously served as a Co-Spokesperson of the PHENIX detector, which completed its data-taking mission in June 2016. Charged with exploring the interactions between the smallest building blocks of matter, PHENIX parsed collision data from RHIC to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, a four-trillion degree primordial soup of fundamental particles thought to have existed microseconds after the
creation of the universe.

The sPHENIX detector will be a significant upgrade to the original PHENIX project. It utilizes a superconducting solenoid magnet repurposed from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), along with state-of-the-art charged-particle-tracking detectors and new electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters to greatly enhance the experimental capabilities sPHENIX, allowing it to measure particle jets produced in collisions at RHIC with unparalleled precision and speed.

The solenoid magnet that will form the core of the sPHENIX detector

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Quark-Gluon Droplets Discovered at BNL's PHENIX Experiment

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:23:40 +0000

Quark-Gluon Droplets Discovered at BNL's PHENIX Experiment Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/09/2013 - 08:23

CU Physics Professor Jamie Nagle is a group leader in a new discovery about the quark-gluon plasma. Researchers at the PHENIX detecter at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider made an unexpected discovery during an experiment that creates a quark-gluon plasma, the type of matter that existed in the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang! They found that the quark-gluon plasma can exist in droplets far smaller than previously thought. Professor Nagle is the co-spokesperson for the experiment. Assistant Professor Romatschke's theoretical modeling of the relativistic hydrodynamics of the quark-gluon plasma in highlighted in the press release.

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