[Cuga] REMINDER!!!Pizza Seminar - Wednesday, October 21, 2009---a message from Hari Areti

[Rachel Harris]

"Evidence for Strongly-Coupled Deconfined Matter from the PHENIX 
experiment at RHIC"
Glenn Young

12 Noon, October 21, 2009
Cebaf Center L104

Please RSVP to harris at jlab.org by
5PM on Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Abstract:
The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL was built on the 
conjecture that colliding nuclei of mass ~200 at sufficiently high 
collision energies would lead to creation of an extended nuclear-scale 
system over which quarks and gluons could move freely. The PHENIX 
detector was designed on the supposition that leptons and photons would 
be particularly useful probes of the strongly-interacting matter thus 
created.  I will give a brief overview of both RHIC and PHENIX and then 
discuss the two significant surprises from the experimental program, 
namely elliptic flow and jet-quenching, followed by a short look at more 
recent studies of direct photon emission and heavy-quark behavior.