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Physicists are using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to test key accelerator strategies for a new state-of-the-art Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) that will reuse some of RHIC's crucial infrastructure.

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(Tiffany Bowman/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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