PHENIX Experiment at RHIC: Decadal Plan 2004-2013

The PHENIX Collaboration has developed a plan for the detailed investigation of quantum
chromodynamics in the next decade. The demonstrated capabilities of the PHENIX experi-
ment to measure rare processes in hadronic, leptonic and photonic channels, in combination
with RHIC’s unparalleled flexibility as a hadronic collider, provides a physics program of
extraordinary breadth and depth. A superlative set of measurements to elucidate the states
of both hot and cold nuclear matter, and to measure the spin structure of the proton has
been identified.