A new and powerful particle detector just passed a critical test in its goal to decipher the ingredients of the early ...

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The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven passes its first big test, proving ready to study quark-gluon plasma born just after the Big Bang.

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, entered its 25th and ...

Thanks to accelerator advances, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, a powerful nuclear physics research facility has just shattered its own record for producing polarized proton collisions at 200 ...

Understanding The Big Bang: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Aids Search For Quark-gluon Plasma Date: September 28, 2007 Source: Sun Microsystems Summary: A large scale STAR experiment is currently ...

Copper Vs. Copper At The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Middleweight Matchup To Provide Control Data In Exploration Of New Form Of Matter Date: January 26, 2005 Source: Brookhaven National ...

Exotic antimatter detected at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: Heaviest known antinucleus heralds new frontier in physics Date: March 4, 2010 Source: DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Summary: A ...

Last week, Brookhaven National Lab hosted a press tour of their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, one of only two active particle colliders in the US. The tour also included a briefing on the work ...

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory has established a new machine record for heavy ion luminosity, well above its ...

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Begins Colliding High-Energy Polarized Protons; Experiments Will Probe Spin Structure Of Protons And The Nature Of The Strong Force Date: December 18, 2001 Source ...