STAR detector (IMAGE)

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STAR detector

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The house-size STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) acts like a giant 3D digital camera to track particles emerging from particle collisions at the center of the detector.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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