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RHIC
Summer Sunday
Sunday, August 17, 2008 was a beautiful summer day
and another very successful BNL Summer Sunday devoted to RHIC.
Organized by Marsha Belford, many visitors toured the RHIC
tunnel and the STAR and PHENIX experiments, led by physicists
and engineers from the accelerator and experiments. More...
Reflections
on RHIC’s Summer Sunday
By Elizabeth Wade
My taste in scientific instruments tends toward the out-dated,
arcane, and decommissioned—in a word, junk. Even since my
regular childhood visits to Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science,
where Ernest Lawrence’s first cyclotron is displayed in a
circular room dedicated to its honor and a later, larger version
of the device serves as a sculpture on the lawn outside, I’ve
been intrigued by the stories of past physics experiments and
the machines that made them possible. More...
Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This week: STAR on
the Grid, Deans of PHENIX, First Beam in LHC, Final E949
Results, and NSAC Meeting. More...
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.