STAR detector (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

STAR detector

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The STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider measured the angular distribution of particles produced in glancing collisions of gold ions moving at nearly the speed of light to provide evidence for two physics phenomena predicted more than 80 years ago.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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