Contents

• Preface
• High-Energy Heavy-Ion Physics
  • The Quark-Gluon Plasma
  • Experimental Facilities
  • Collision Characteristics
  • Thermodynamic Properties
  • Quark-Gluon Plasma Signatures
    • Kinematic Probes
    • Strangeness Enhancement
    • J/$\Psi$ Suppression
    • Photon Production
    • Light Vector Meson Properties
    • Jet Quenching
    • Event-by-Event Fluctuations
  
  
• The PHENIX Experiment
  • Physics Goals
  • Detector Subsystems
    • Vertex and Trigger Detectors
    • Central Arm Spectrometers
    • Muon Spectrometers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Event Reconstruction
  • The Pad Chambers
    • The Pixel Pattern
    • Efficiency and Position Resolution
  
  
• Net Charge Fluctuations
  • Theoretical Approach
    • Physics Motivation
    • Influences on the Fluctuations
    • Some Comparisons Between Various Measures
  • Simulations
    • Random Distribution
    • Global Charge Conservation
    • Efficiency and Background
    • Neutral Resonances
    • QGP Model
  • Analysis of PHENIX Data
  
  
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• About this document ...