Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) physics overview

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Front. Phys. ›› 2010, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (2) : 205-214. DOI: 10.1007/s11467-010-0014-x
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Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) physics overview

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The results from data taken during the last several years at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) will be reviewed in the paper. Several selected topics that further our understanding of constituent quark scaling, jet quenching and color screening effect of heavy quarkonia in the hot dense medium will be presented. Detector upgrades will further probe the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma. Future measurements with upgraded detectors will be presented. The discovery perspectives from future measurements will also be discussed.

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Quark Gluon Plasma / jet quenching / partonic collectivity / number of constituent quark scaling / baryon enhancement / color screening effect

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