Giant US collider plans to smash 50 billion gold atoms after 25 years of research
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is entering its final year of experiments. Scientists plan to collect data from 50 billion gold-gold atom collisions to study quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have existed after the Big Bang. The sPHENIX detector will operate at full capacity, using precision tracking to measure particle energy and reconstruct jets. After this run, RHIC will be transformed into a new Electron-Ion Collider facility for further physics exploration.
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