sPHENIX time projection chamber (IMAGE)

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sPHENIX time projection chamber

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An end-view of the Time Project Chamber of the sPHENIX detector, which will be seeing its first collisions during Run 23 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The top priority of the run will be commissioning all the complex components of sPHENIX.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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