Status of the quark gluon plasma search

TERRY C AWES

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831

E-mail: awes@bnl.gov

Abstract. A selection of results are discussed that support the

conclusion that strongly interacting quark gluon plasma is produced

in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at

BNL.

Keywords. Quark gluon plasma; PHENIX; hydrodynamics; direct photons;

hadron suppression.

PACS No. 25.75.Dw