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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. 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. RHIC drives two intersecting beams of gold ions head-on, in a subatomic collision. 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. 

Current RHIC experiments. Click images to read about them. 

 

  

RHIC news:
New Machine Record for Heavy Ion Luminosity at RHIC

 

What Have We Learned From RHIC? (from Physics Today)

 
First Results from Deuteron-Gold Collisions. Findings intensify search for new form of matter.
See also: previous milestones.

eRHIC
 
     
General Information
• The RHIC complex
 • Visible from space 
• Go inside the tunnel
• The RHIC community
• Fascinating facts
• Full-energy collision images
• Black holes at RHIC?
• Why Does Quark Matter 'Matter'?
• What Have We Learned From RHIC?
(an article from Physics Today, 10/03)

Physics & Detectors
• RHIC physics
• General physics primer
• The experiments

User Information
• RHIC/AGS Users Center
 • RHIC/AGS Users Group
 • RHIC/AGS machine status
 • Collider-Accelerator Dept.
• Training information
• RHIC Computing Facility
• RIKEN BNL Research Center

Miscellaneous
• Powerpoint presentations used in the d-Au Results Colloquium held June 18, 2003: BRAHMS, PHENIX, PHOBOS, STAR
(.ppt format)
• Archived streaming video of the June 18 d-Au Collision Results Colloquium available in RealPlayer format.

 Experiment Home Pages
• BRAHMS
• PHENIX
• PHOBOS
• STAR
• pp2pp  
• Zero degree calorimeter
• EIC
      
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Last updated on May 05, 2004
by G. Schroeder