Overview and Recent Results from BRAHMS

Understand

The BRAHMS experiment was designed to measure and characterize in particular the properties of rapidity dependence of particle production in heavy ion collisions.

• The data-taking is now over, results of several years of analysis have been published and demonstrates several important features of the rapidity dependence, not envisioned from the start of the RHIC program.
• The bulk properties of the system formed at high rapidity resemble that of systems at lower energies at mid-rapidity when referenced via the baryo-chemical potential.
• New physics in AA are essentially observed at mid-rapidity including the demonstration that high-\pT suppression is a final state effect.