project

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Heavy-ion and polarized-proton collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, built to collide nuclei such as gold at near light speed and operated as a U.S. Department of Energy user facility from 2000 to 2026.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

STAR finds a dip in momentum fluctuations at RHIC's lowest gold-gold energies

STAR's proxy for temperature swings between gold-gold collisions stops falling and turns back up at the bottom of RHIC's energy range, a result now fixed in a dataset the collider finished taking in 2026.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
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