ar X iv : n uc l - ex / 0 10 90 16 v 1 2 4 Se p 20 01 First results from RHIC : What are they telling us ?
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory is the first accelerator specifically constructed for the study of very hot and dense nuclear matter. At sufficiently high temperature, nuclear matter is expected to undergo a phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma. It is the specific goal of the field to study the nature of this plasma and understand the phase transitions between different states. The RHIC accelerator along with four experiments BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS, and STAR were commissioned last year with first collisions occurring in June 2000. Presented here are the first results from low luminosity beam in Run I. They are a glimpse of the wealth of physics to be extracted from the RHIC program over the next several years.
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