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Physics Colloquium, February 19, 2002What have we learned from RHIC?Larry McLerranBrookhaven National LaboratoryThe goal of the experimental program at RHIC (an ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus colliding beam accelerator) is to make ultra-dense forms of nuclear matter. I will argue that in the collisions of ultra-relativistic nuclei at RHIC one has made matter at energy densities at least one and perhaps several orders of magnitude higher than that inside atomic nuclei. I will discuss the nature of the ultrahigh-density matter which we are trying to produce in these collisions. More importantly, I discuss what the experiments have taught us about such matter, and what we expect to learn in the near future. 3.30 p.m., Smith Laboratory, Room 1005Refreshments served in Smith 1094 at 3:00 p.m. |
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