STAR Time Projection Chamber (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

STAR Time Projection Chamber

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The track of an antihelium-4 nucleus, highlighted in red, appears in a myriad of tracks produced by a gold-gold collision inside the STAR detector at RHIC. STAR's Time Projection Chamber measures the momentum and mass of the collision events, which are sifted to select particles with specific characteristics.

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