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Learn about the physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)


Aerial view of the RHIC complex--Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York. Outlined is the path heavy-ions make in their journey from 0 to 99.95% the speed of light: heavy-ions are initially stripped of their electrons in the Tandem Van de Graff; in the booster synchrotron they “surf” their way to 37% the speed light on the downhill slope of radio frequency waves; and in the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) they accelerate to 99.7% the speed of light, at which point the heavy-ions are ready to enter RHIC.

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  Event reconstruction from a full energy Au+Au collision as recorded by Phenix.






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