Smashing polarized protons to uncover spin and other secrets
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 21:30
in Physics & Chemistry
If you want to unravel the secrets of proton spin, put a “twist” in your colliding proton beams. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is the only facility in the world with the ability to collide such spin-polarized protons. The latest round of these collisions has just begun and will continue for approximately the next nine weeks.