▪ Abstract Analyses of two-particle correlations have provided the chief means for
determining spatio-temporal characteristics of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We discuss …

We review the physics of nuclear matter at high energy density and the experimental search
for the quark–gluon plasma at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The data obtained …

Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded
using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive …

We describe in detail how the different components of a multiphase transport (ampt) model
that uses the heavy ion jet interaction generator (hijing) for generating the initial conditions …

Identified charged-particle spectra of π±, K±, p, and p¯ at midrapidity (| y|< 0. 1) measured by
the dE/dx method in the STAR (solenoidal tracker at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) …

We argue that the emission of hadrons with transverse momentum up to about 5 G e V/c in
central relativistic heavy ion collisions is dominated by recombination, rather than …

The results from the STAR Collaboration on directed flow (v 1), elliptic flow (v 2), and the
fourth harmonic (v 4) in the anisotropic azimuthal distribution of particles from Au+ Au …

The PHENIX detector is designed to perform a broad study of A–A, p–A, and p–p collisions
to investigate nuclear matter under extreme conditions. A wide variety of probes, sensitive to …

Here we calculate the first correction to the thermal distribution function of an expanding gas
due to shear viscosity. With this modified distribution function we estimate viscous …

We discuss hadron production in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC). We argue that hadrons at transverse momenta PT< 5 GeV are formed by …