The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider

Science and Technology Seminar

Laboratory for Laser Energetics,University of Rochester

April 10, 1998

Contents

1. Introduction
2. The last 14 billion years
3. The first 1 billion years
4. The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC)
5. The RHIC experiments
6. PHOBOS - technical details
7. PHOBOS - particle identification
8. PHOBOS - the time-of-flight wall
9. Summary