Output from this Series of Workshops:

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Output from this Series of Workshops A science
vision for the RHIC future

• Provide a science case for the future RHIC
  program that makes clear its importance in the
  broad scientific arena, including a future Long
  Range Plan.

2. Provide a set of core scientific goals, as
seen by the RHIC community, that can serve as a
basis for Laboratory planning and decision making
regarding the RHIC program, including upgrades,
in response to an array of possible budget
scenarios.
RHIC II is part of this vision, but the
discussion needs to be broader than a focus on a
specific project
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RHIC Science Whitepaper A study of physics
opportunities for the coming decade

• Overview and conclusions-- drawn from Working
  Group Reports
• -writing committee-

• Address NSAC Subcommittee questions
•         What are the most crucial measurements
  to be made in RHIC heavy-ion collisions over the
  next decade to define clearly whether a new state
  (or states) of matter has been observed, and to
  delineate the central properties of that matter?
  What compelling new insights would these
  measurements bring to our understanding of
  fundamental issues of broad scientific interest?

• Of the above measurements, which ones require
  detector and/or collider upgrades? Which ones
  could be uniquely addressed at RHIC in the LHC
  era? What unique scientific opportunities would
  be lost if RHIC were not upgraded?

• What compelling new insights would the RHIC
  spin program bring to our understanding of
  fundamental issues of broad scientific interest?
  What unique scientific opportunities would be
  lost if this program were to be severely
  curtailed?

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RHIC Science White Paper
II. Reports from the Working Groups

• Charge to the Working Groups
• Identify which of the physics questions listed
  at the November workshop can be addressed by the
  class of measurements to be studied by the
  working group, and outline the structure of a
  scientific program that can successfully attack
  these questions and lead to convincing answers.
• Identify the compelling questions that can be
  addressed with RHIC and cannot be addressed at
  the LHC. Which provide crucial complementary
  information to the planned LHC measurements?
• Specify the required information, kinematic
  range, statistical precision, and required beam
  combinations to address the physics questions.
  What technical advances (experimental and
  theoretical) are required beyond the capabilities
  currently in place at RHIC?

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From the November Workshop

• Physics Questions to be addressed by the Working
  Groups  
• What is the nature of the phase transition
  between nuclear matter and quark matter? (How
  does this type of matter return to its usual
  forms observed in our detectors?) How does
  hadronization work? Is there evidence for
  deconfinement?
• How does the clearly evident thermodynamic
  character of a high energy heavy ion collision
  evolve from the zero entropy initial state? How
  does the collision thermalize so quickly?
• What are the properties of strongly coupled
  quark gluon plasma? Transport properties? Medium
  properties Resonant states? Collision
  probability? Screening length?
• Is chiral symmetry restored? When in the
  collision and what are the effects?
• What can non-equilibrium field theory tell us
  about Initial state? Is there a color glass
• condensate? Thermalization? Medium properties?
• What is the structure and dynamics inside the
  proton? What is the spin structure of the
  nucleon? Is parity violation important?
• Are there exotic hadrons that can be studied at
  RHIC?
•  

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Time Scale

• Aim to complete the White Paper document by Dec.
  31, 2005
• This puts it in play for the FY 2008 budget
  cycle

• Another workshop September with final results
  from Working Groups
• Writing Committee in place

One-day Workshop June 22, at the Annual Users
Meeting