University of Tennessee Physics Research

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics

Additional information related

to the RHIP group and the physics we study

The progress in the field of dense and hot nuclear matter has often been described in the popular science literature. Articles in Scientific American and Physics Today from 2000 describe the claim by researchers from CERN to have found the Quark Gluon Plasma or at least seen very strong circumstantial evidence for it at center-of-mass energies around 20 A GeV. The more substantial evidence accumulated by the experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider during the first three years of operation is laid out in articles in 2003 in Physics Today and CERN Courier.

More detailed description of our field can be obtained from overview talks at the Quark Matter conferences. Results from lower energy collisions at the AGS at BNL has been summarized by Ogilvie, while Lourenco has described the status of the results from the SPS at CERN. The status of the RHIC results from PHENIX up to 2002 has been given by Zajc.

The study of the spin structure of the proton is another focal point of our research. The prospects for this field at RHIC is described in an overview paper from 2000.

The impressive design and performance of the RHIC accelerator has been covered in a review article from 2002.

Read about the controversy during the summer 1999 concerning the possibility that RHIC might destroy the Earth!

Ken and Soren's work has been described in University of Tennessee publications, like the description of the Physics Today front page with a picture of the PHENIX detector and the article in the Physics Departments Newsletter, Cross Sections.

UT Campus Map with location of the RHIP Group





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