Heavy Ion Physics at RHIC: The Strongly Coupled Quark Gluon Plasma High temperature and density QCD QCD phase transition The RHIC program Experimental Results Energy density…
High T QCD at RHIC: Hard Probes Fundamental open questions for high T QCD Nature of matter created at RHIC Critical Point Hadronization Rapid thermalization Experimental…
High T and r QCD in the BNL QCD Lab Era Introduction QCD phase diagram Status of heavy ion physics Heavy ion facilities Fundamental questions Key experimental probes: hard…