The only U.S. particle collider shuts down – so a new one may rise
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The United States' only particle collider, RHIC at Brookhaven National Laboratory, shut down in February after 25 years of groundbreaking discoveries including the quark-gluon plasma that existed after the Big Bang. This closure paves the way for the next-generation Electron-Ion Collider, which will reuse RHIC's infrastructure and begin operations in the mid-2030s to provide unprecedented 3-D imaging of protons and potentially reveal mysterious substances within them.
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