In search of nuclear matter’s critical point, Brookhaven’s Collider-Accelerator Department recently completed a challenging low-energy run at RHIC.
About 180 members of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Alternating Gradient Synchrotron user community gathered to hear about recent results, facility updates, and funding, and celebrate a trio of impressive anniversaries.
Analyses of RHIC data have established that collisions of gold ions have created matter at a temperature of about 4 trillion degrees Celcius, higher than the temperature needed to melt protons and neutrons into a plasma of quarks and gluons. More...
Four detectors -- STAR, PHENIX, PHOBOS, and BRAHMS -- help physicists analyze RHIC particle collisions. These detectors electronically record the results of collisions, seeking insight into what happens when quarks are liberated from their atomic nuclei.
Operated by Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics.
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