Abstract
This project has as its primary goal the continuation of the on-going collaboration LIP-BNL between the 'Laboratório de Instrumentação e Partículas' (LIP) of the University of São Paulo, the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), in (i) the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies (Project PHENIX-BNL), and (…