STAR detector and particle tracks (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

STAR detector and particle tracks

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Scientists can track the trajectories of particles emerging from heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) using the STAR detector. This composite image shows the house-size detector and sample particle tracks from a high-energy head-on gold-gold collision.

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Roger Stoutenburgh and Jen Abramowitz/Brookhaven National Laboratory

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