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[[File:PHENIX_experiment_outside.jpg | thumb | right | alt=PHENIX experimental hall outside view | PHENIX experimental hall outside view]]The '''PHENIX detector''' (for Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction eXperiment) is the largest of the four experiments that have taken data at the [[Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider]] (RHIC) in [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]], United States.
==Overview==
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The PHENIX collaboration performs basic research with high energy collisions of heavy ions and protons. The primary mission of PHENIX is the following:
*Search for a new state of matter called the [[quark–gluon plasma]], which is believed to be the state of matter existing in the universe shortly after the [[Big Bang]]. PHENIX data suggest that a new form of matter has indeed been discovered, and that it behaves like a perfect fluid. PHENIX scientists are now working to study its properties.<ref name=phenix16>{{cite journal |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/668/1/012017 |title=Strangeness production in PHENIX experiment |last=Kotov |first=D. O. |display-authors=et al. |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |date=2016 |volume=668 |number=12017|page=012017 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016JPhCS.668a2017K }}</ref>
*Study matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.
*Learn where the proton gets its spin.
*Study the most basic building blocks of nature and the forces that govern them.
*Create a map of the [[quantum chromodynamics]] phase diagram.<ref name=phenixQCD>{{cite journal |doi=10.1088/1742-6596/1602/1/012009 |title=Exploring the QCD phase diagram via the collision energy dependence of multi-particle femtoscopy with PHENIX |last=Csanád |first=M. |display-authors=et al. |journal=Journal of Physics: Conference Series |date=2020 |volume=1602 |number=12009|page=012009 |doi-access=free |arxiv=2007.04751 |bibcode=2020JPhCS1602a2009C }}</ref>
==See also==
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