RHIC accelerator complex at Brookhaven National Laboratory (IMAGE)

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RHIC accelerator complex at Brookhaven National Laboratory

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A chain of accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory brings protons or atomic nuclei up to speed and injects them into the counter-circulating "gold" and "blue" rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). Pairs of protons or ions collide at the center of two house-sized detectors, STAR and sPHENIX. Scientists analyze particles streaming out of collisions to learn about the building blocks of matter.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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