Münster 2002 – scientific programme
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HK: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne
HK 1: Plenary Session
HK 1.3: Plenary Talk
Monday, March 11, 2002, 15:15–15:45, Plenarsaal
Heavy Ion Physics in the RHIC Era — •Thomas Peitzmann — Universität Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany
The first year of running of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Brookhaven at a beam energy of √sNN = 130 GeV has brought the study of strongly interacting matter into a new era and has already provided a large number of exciting results by the four heavy ion experiments. Highlights of these early results will be presented and discussed in comparison with previous results from lower energy heavy ion experiments and from measurements in pp (pp) collisions and with theoretical expectations. The status of the measurements at the full RHIC energy of √sNN = 200 GeV in 2001 and the future prospects will also be discussed.