Authors
John Adams, MM Aggarwal, Z Ahammed, J Amonett, BD Anderson, D Arkhipkin, GS Averichev, SK Badyal, Y Bai, J Balewski, O Barannikova, LS Barnby, J Baudot, S Bekele, VV Belaga, A Bellingeri-Laurikainen, R Bellwied, J Berger, BI Bezverkhny, S Bharadwaj, A Bhasin, AK Bhati, VS Bhatia, H Bichsel, J Bielcik, J Bielcikova, A Billmeier, LC Bland, CO Blyth, BE Bonner, M Botje, A Boucham, J Bouchet, AV Brandin, A Bravar, M Bystersky, RV Cadman, XZ Cai, H Caines, M Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, J Castillo, O Catu, D Cebra, Z Chajecki, P Chaloupka, S Chattopadhyay, HF Chen, Y Chen, J Cheng, M Cherney, A Chikanian, W Christie, JP Coffin, TM Cormier, JG Cramer, HJ Crawford, D Das, S Das, MM De Moura, TG Dedovich, AA Derevschikov, L Didenko, T Dietel, SM Dogra, WJ Dong, X Dong, JE Draper, F Du, AK Dubey, VB Dunin, JC Dunlop, MR Dutta Mazumdar, V Eckardt, WR Edwards, LG Efimov, V Emelianov, J Engelage, G Eppley, B Erazmus, M Estienne, P Fachini, J Faivre, R Fatemi, J Fedorisin, K Filimonov, P Filip, E Finch, V Fine, Y Fisyak, J Fu, CA Gagliardi, L Gaillard, J Gans, MS Ganti, F Geurts, V Ghazikhanian, P Ghosh, JE Gonzalez, H Gos, O Grachov, O Grebenyuk, D Grosnick, SM Guertin, Y Guo, A Gupta, TD Gutierrez, TJ Hallman, A Hamed, D Hardtke, JW Harris, M Heinz, TW Henry, S Hepplemann, B Hippolyte, A Hirsch, E Hjort, GW Hoffmann, HZ Huang, SL Huang, EW Hughes, TJ Humanic, G Igo, A Ishihara, P Jacobs, WW Jacobs, M Jedynak, H Jiang, PG Jones, EG Judd, S Kabana, K Kang, M Kaplan, D Keane, A Kechechyan, V Yu Khodyrev, J Kiryluk, A Kisiel, EM Kislov, J Klay, SR Klein, DD Koetke, T Kollegger, M Kopytine, L Kotchenda, M Kramer, P Kravtsov, VI Kravtsov, K Krueger, C Kuhn, AI Kulikov
Publication date
2005/8/8
Journal
Nuclear Physics A
Volume
757
Issue
1-2
Pages
102-183
Publisher
North-Holland
Description
We review the most important experimental results from the first three years of nucleus–nucleus collision studies at RHIC, with emphasis on results from the STAR experiment, and we assess their interpretation and comparison to theory. The theory-experiment comparison suggests that central Au + Au collisions at RHIC produce dense, rapidly thermalizing matter characterized by: (1) initial energy densities above the critical values predicted by lattice QCD for establishment of a quark–gluon plasma (QGP); (2) nearly ideal fluid flow, marked by constituent interactions of very short mean free path, established most probably at a stage preceding hadron formation; and (3) opacity to jets. Many of the observations are consistent with models incorporating QGP formation in the early collision stages, and have not found ready explanation in a hadronic framework. However, the measurements themselves do not yet …
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