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Department of Physics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208120
New Haven, CT 06520-8120
Phone: 203-432-3650
Fax: 203-432-6175
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Department of Physics
Research: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
Relativistic heavy ion physics is of international and interdisciplinary interest to nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. The primary goal of this field of research is to re-create in the laboratory a new state of matter, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is predicted by the standard model of particle physics (Quantum Chromodynamics) to have existed ten millionths of a second after the Big Bang (origin of the Universe) and may exist in the cores of very dense stars. The Yale effort is based
at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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