RHIC And Quark Matter: A Proposed Heavy Ion Collider At Brookhaven National Laboratory

In August, 1983 a Working Group of nuclear and particle physicists was convened at Brookhaven to consider the basic parameters for a high energy heavy ion collider facility. The meeting was in response to a unique set of circumstances arising from the termination of the CBA project and the result of the NSAC long range planning study in which an ultra-relativistic heavy ion collider was identified as the important new scientific opportunity for U.S. nuclear physics. Now the opportunity arose to consider the design of a dedicated heavy ioin collider which could take advantage of the work already invested in the CBA project.