Legendary U.S. Particle Collider Is About to Perform Its Final Smash
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a ...
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Giant US collider plans to smash 50 billion gold atoms after 25 years of research
The team has used RHIC to smash the nuclei of gold atoms at near-light speed since 2000, collecting data to recreate and study quark-gluon plasma (QGP or quark soup). This hot, de ...
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) enters 25th and final run
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 final ...
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AI algorithm intensifies gold ion collisions at near-light speed
At Brookhaven National Laboratory's (BNL's) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), billions of gold ions race through magnets at nearly the speed of light. Thousands of times per second ...
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Fresh, direct evidence for tiny drops of quark-gluon plasma
A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet
That was until earlier in 2024 when scientists used the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York to detect ...
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High-energy heavy ion collisions reveal subtleties of nuclear structure at US lab
They demonstrated the new way to use high-energy particle smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a ...
ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
two antineutrons and an antilambda), reported earlier this year by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion ...
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Antihyperhelium-4: World’s largest atom smasher detects heaviest antimatter to date
Experiments like the LHC create them in large quantities, though, and this is where detectors of ALICE and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) try to spot and study them. Earlier this year ...
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Legendary U.S. Particle Collider Is About to Perform Its Final Smash
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a quarter century of discoveries in particle physics. Best of CES 2025 ...