A Cornucopia of Experiment at RHIC

Abstract

I outline experimental results on heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for a non-technical audience. This includes: elliptic flow and nearly ideal hydrodynamics; the suppression of hard particles and the ratio R_AA; and electromagnetic signals, including dileptons and direct photons. Especially puzzling is why the behavior of heavy (charm) quarks appears to be so similar to that of light quarks.

Comments: 16 pages, 15 figures. Invited talk at Lattice 2008. Corrected discussion of mean p_t in Color Glass model, fig. 3