RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science RHIC Physics Research Laboratory

We study one of the four fundamental forces of the nature, the strong interaction, using RHIC collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA. RHIC can collide heavy nuclei at high energy, producing hot and high density matter called Quark Gluon Plasma, which existed in early Universe. We study the properties of QGP produced at RHIC. We also study the nucleon structure with polarized pp collisions at RHIC. RHIC is the only high energy collider that can collide polarized proton beams. Polarized proton collisions at RHIC were realized at the initiative of RIKEN.

Main Research Fields

• Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Related Research Fields

• Engineering
• Experimental studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics

Keywords

• Quark
• High temperature and high density matter
• Nucleon Structure
• Spin