Hard probes at RHIC

✍ Scribed by P.G. Jones

• Book ID: 103870275
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 390 KB
• Volume: 177-178
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2007.11.100

✦ Synopsis

At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), hard scattering processes become accessible at high transverse momentum, opening up a new set of experimental tools with which to study the properties of hot QCD matter. This paper reviews the status of hard probes at RHIC, with particular emphasis on results from the STAR experiment. * The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.