The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC

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

Evidence on the gluon

The production of hard noncollinear gluons in short distance processes is disussed, with emphasis on recent results from e+e− interactions. The jet phenomena observed in the e+e− continuum and in Υ decay are consistently described as due to the emission of QCD gluons while alternative explanations fail. The vector and color‐nonsinglet nature of the radiated quanta is directly verified

Evidence on the gluon

The production of hard noncollinear gluons in short distance processes is disussed, with emphasis on recent results from e+e− interactions. The jet phenomena observed in the e+e− continuum and in Υ decay are consistently described as due to the emission of QCD gluons while alternative explanations fail. The vector and color‐nonsinglet nature of the radiated quanta is directly verified

Correlation of RV chamber dimensions with gel mass from necropsy findings.

<p>The gel mass was 0.18 ± 0.10g, the RVOT dimension (R2) was 0.34 ± 0.06cm and the mid-ventricular dimension (R1) was 0.42 ± 0.07cm for SC and RVOT views respectively. Neither RVOT nor MRV dimensions correlated with agarose gel mass (R = 0.098, P = 0.41 and R = 0.018, P = 0.73)<b>.</b> The chamber area was 0.29 ± 0.08 cm² and 0.38 ± 0.09 cm². Both RVOT and MRV chamber areas correlated with gel mass (R = 0.72, P = 0.02 and R = 0.78, P = 0.03). The RV wall mass was 0.19 ± 0.04g, and the wall area was 0.069 ± 0.017cm² and 0.084 ± 0.017cm² for RVOT and MRV views respectively. Neither RVOT nor SC wall area correlated with RV wall mass (R = 0.004, P = 0.84 and R = 0.009, P = 0.77).</p

Ventricular function.

<p>Ejection indices of cardiac output (RV CO and LV CO), left-ventricular fractional area change (LV FAC) and Fractional shortening (LV FS).</p