20th Year of Particle Smashups Underway at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 09:50
in Astronomy & Space
The 20th year of particle collisions is underway at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The particle smashups will continue over a range of collision energies through the first half of 2020, with members of RHIC's STAR collaboration collecting data from millions of collisions that take place at the center of their house-sized particle detector.