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    The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

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    The physics emphases of the PHENIX collaboration and the design and current status of the PHENIX detector are discussed. The plan of the collaboration for making the most effective use of the available luminosity in the first years of RHIC operation is also presented.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Further details of the PHENIX physics program available at http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/phenix

    Overview of Phenix results from the first RHIC run

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    Low mass dilepton production at RHIC energies

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    EIRecent results on low mass dilepton measurements from the PHENIX experiment are reported. Invariant mass spectra of ϕ−>e+e−\phi-> e+e- are measured for the first time in Au-Au collisions at SNN=200GeV\sqrt{^{S}NN} = 200 GeV in Run2. In d-Au collisions, the yields and MT slopes of both ϕ−>e+e−\phi ->e+e- and ϕ−>K+K−\phi-> K+K- are measured. Both results are consistent with each other within errors. In the future, a Hadron Blind Detector will be installed in PHENIX which will enhance our capabilities of rejecting external photon conversions and Dalitz pairs, that will result in a significant reduction of the large combinatorial background
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