Abstract
The high energy research group at Creighton University works at RHIC (the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) as a member of the STAR (Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC) collaboration. We analyzes data collected from ultraperipheral collisions of gold nuclei accelerated to approximately the speed of light. In ultraperipheral collisions, the nuclei do not physically overlap, but interact electromagnetically. In this talk, we will focus on the observation of the phi meson through its decay channel into a K(-) and K(-). We will discuss the techniques used to identify the daughter Kaons, the reconstruction of the phi invariant mass as well as the preliminary results of this analysis.