Speaker
Dr
Ron Soltz
(Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))
Description
The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at RHIC has shown the flexibility
to vary the beam energy per nucleon by more than an order of
magnitude, down to the equivalent $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ of SPS fixed-target
collisions and below. This allows the RHIC experiments to
systematically track the evolution of excited nuclear matter as it
crosses the QGP transition, and to explore new physics at significant
net baryon density such as the possibility of a QCD critical point at
high $\mu_B$. We present new results from PHENIX on the beam-energy
dependence of observables including hydrodynamic flow parameters, 3D
HBT source shapes, and global multiplicity and $E_T$ production. We
also discuss plans to utilize the upcoming BES-II running period at
RHIC.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Primary author
Dr
Ron Soltz
(Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))
