Results from STAR experiment at RHIC

 

BEDANGADAS MOHANTY, for the STAR Collaboration

Variable Energy Cylcotron Centre, 1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata  700 064, India

E-mail: bmohanty@veccal.ernet.in

 

Abstract. We present some of the important experimental results from

nucleus--nucleus collision studies carried out by the STAR experiment

at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The results suggests that

central Au+Au collisions at RHIC has produced a dense and rapidly

thermalizing matter with initial energy densities above the critical

values predicted by lattice QCD for establishment of a

quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

 

Keywords. Quark-gluon plasma; heavy-ion collisions; perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

 

PACS No. 25.75.Dw