200GeV Collisions at RHIC

PHENIX Experiment writes: "Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time, collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon. This is a new energy regime for the high energy nuclear physics relativistic heavy ion program which is now getting underway. We have put together a bunch of nice photos of event displays for some nice central collisions, the collisions where the two nuclei hit head on. Over the next 6 months or so, we are looking to collect on the order of a petabyte of data which will then be analyzed using our VA Linux farm operated by the RHIC Computing Facility."