The purpose of the
workshop is to bring together theorists and experimentalists to discuss
the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions in the light of
the first year of data from RHIC. As witnessed at Quark Matter 2001,
there is a wealth of new experimental data from the four RHIC
experiments, and more results are expected by the time of the
workshop.
The emphasis of the workshop will be on the following topics which
will be addressed in the context of the RHIC data:
- Initial conditions: relevance of hard
scattering, gluon saturation, shadowing;
- Partonic energy loss: coherence effects, relation to initial
conditions;
- Expansion dynamics: collective flow and
correlations
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